Heinz's Hat, Some Surfing, & The Sharks!
Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 31 October 1964
THE FACT that Heinz has just visited Australia stuck out the proverbial mile when I met him last week, after an exhausting two week tour of the down-under continent When I saw Heinz he was proudly wearing a white straw hat that he had picked up somewhere along the dusty outback.
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