Word: railton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles and talked his parents into letting him buy an aged and battered Ford - "not to drive, just to work on." That was in 1949, two years after London Fur Broker John Cobb set a new land speed record, gunning his twin-engined, 2,500-h.p. Railton Mobil Special up to 394.196 m.p.h. Over the years, dozens of daredevils have tried to crack Cobb's mark, and few sporting pursuits have been so costly to participants in terms of money and life. The turbine-powered Bluebird of Britain's Donald Campbell...
Married. Cecil Harmsworth King, 61, Britain's biggest press lord, whose Daily Mirror Group encompasses eight British and a dozen overseas newspapers, plus 200 assorted periodicals (total circ. 36.5 million); and Ruth Railton, 46, a longtime friend, founder and director of the Daily Mirror-sponsored National Youth Orchestra; he for the second time; in Maidenhead, England...