The Sunday Times magazine - This Racing Life cover (25 April 1971)

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The Sunday Times magazine - This Racing Life cover (25 April 1971)
Very good condition for age - yellowing to page edges - diagonal crease to top corner of rear cover (and affects one page at the rear)

MOTHER AND SON - Vivienne, the society photographer, took her first professional picture at the age of 51. Her son, Antony Beauchamp, took his when he was 15. Both had simultaneous and successful careers until his suicide in 1957. Vivienne talks to Francis Wyndham
3 pages
(Includes further 4½ pages "Portraits by Vivienne" (including small image of Vivien Leigh, Edward Heath, Julie Andrews, Shirley Bassey, Alicia Markova, Gracie Fields, Jayne Mansfield, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor. Also a full page photo of Greta Garbo. Half page photo of Marilyn Monroe lying on blanket on the roof of a Hollywood house rented from Ben Lyon)

INSIDE RACING - In the following pages, Philip Jacobson and James Fox look at the new racing scene and talk to people who make their living from it.

Including:

PROFILE OF A PROFESSIONAL PUNTER - 2 pages

THAT'S WHY THE LADY IS A TRAINER - Sally Hall is one of only seven women licensed to train racehorses in Britain, and the only one in the North. She is tipped to be the first woman to train a Derby winner
One and a half pages

NIJINSKY THE GREAT - double page colour portrait (middle pages) (by Roger Coleman)

PORTRAIT OF THE OWNER AS A SYNDICATE - The expense of owning and running his one racehorse is well beyond the pocket of the ordinary enthusiast. Joining a syndicate offers him a cheaper ticket to the owners' enclosure. (Includes half-page photo of the Hollingworth-Carrington syndicate)
One page

THE ODDS AGAINST THE SATCHEL MAN - Many on-course bookies are finding it hard to live with the Betting Tax. Vic Chandler is one of the successful few
One and a half pages

THE FORM BOOK - The top men in the hierarchy of the Turf
One and a half pages
Featuring: Lord Wigg, Sir Randle Feilden, David Robinson

THE TIME TRAVELLER - Two and a half page feature on Thor Heyerdahl