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LONGEST CAREER AS... A motor racing driver As of 29 Oct 2017, Alan Baillie (UK, b. 17 Jan 1937) had been motor racing for 55 years 135 days. His first race was in an Austin-Healey at Nottingham Sports Car Club’s 10th Annual Motor Race Meeting at Silverstone, UK, on 16 Jun 1962. He has raced every year since then. A comics artist Al Jaffee (USA) had worked for 73 years 3 months from the first publication of his artwork in Joker Comics in Dec 1942 through to the Apr 2016 issue of MAD magazine. An airline mechanic As of 17 Jul 2017, Azriel “Al” Blackman (USA, b. Aug 1925) had worked for American Airlines for exactly 75 years. He was 91 years old at the time, just a month shy of his 92nd birthday. OLDEST… Radio talk-show host (living) Walter Bingham (ISR, b. 5 Jan 1924) was aged 94 years 116 days as of 1 May 2018. He presents two programs – Walter’s World on Israel National News and The Walter Bingham File on Israel News Talk Radio – both of which are broadcast from Jerus