ZUM4856381: Jul 01, 1953 - Atri Brown Work On New Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln: Atri Brown the famous sculptor is completing a new over - lifesize bust of Abraham Lincoln at his London Studio. The bust, is in bronze and was commissioned by Paul Grant, resident of Ushaw College, Durham - for the American Donor Joseph Scott, a prominent attorney of Los Angeles, California, who was a student at Ushaw before he went to the United States - and who has since sent his four sons here for their education / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4856611: Jul 04, 1953 - Dangers rehearse their charity show in London, The youngsters in wedding scene; Many young pupils of Violet ballantine were to be seen at the Adelphi thater, Strand, London this morning where they were holding a dress rehearsal for the annual dancing matinee held in aid of the” League of Pity” a Junior section of the N.S.P.C.C / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4856821: Jul 07, 1953 - Egypt Crisis over kidnapped London Airman: The sharp new crisis blew up suddenly between Britain and Egypt today, In Ismailie, British and Military base in the Canal Zone, and in Cairo, the situationis tense. It follows the kidnapping last Friday of British Airman, L.A.C., A.V. Rigden. The British gave the Egyptian government unti 9 am. today to return him. And, as at that time the British received only a flat rejection of their demand, British troops went into action. British paratroopers of teh 18th Airborne Division, clamped down stringent traffic onctrols in Ismailia. Roadnlocks were manned and heavy machine guns were set up / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4856921: Jul 07, 1953 - Duisburg woman returning after three years from Nigeria: Clerk Margot Puhl from Duisbug who made during a trip three years ago the acquintance of the negro scientist and indigenous official Akinola Emanuel Abayoni, then married him shortly afterwards and followed in his home country now arrived at her parents with her daughter Ekundayo (the name means: Joy after grievance) who is born in Africa Mrs. Abayoni had not announced her visit to the surprised parents. The reason of her voyage to Germany was the escaping from the rain which is at present in her new home country and also a little bit homesickness though she is feeling very well with her husband / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4856956: Jul 07, 1953 - Jogging Japan: Japan has taken to jogging groups of joggers huff & puff along traffic choked streets, doing their miles. One favorite jog is around the imperial palace moat in downtown tokyo. This picture however was taken in Kyoto, when a group of students made the rounds early one morning. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857565: Jul 07, 1953 - School For Cowboys - In The Wild (English) West: Ten youngsters one stetson, half a dozen horses and a lases spice are learning to be real cowboys in the wide popemn spaces of the West - But it's the West of the England, Dartmoor, to be exact, where ex-South American rancher Ross Salmon is to start a cattle range. He offered to teach ten British boys the business. He was persuaded to include one English boy. The started this week - on the same course that faces a raw ranch hand in the more publicised West: lasseing, cowboy riding, breaking bronces and learning the cowhand's jargon. The cowboy copers are the basic qualifications of a ranch hand from Dever to Devon. And Salmon wants four hands for the first Western-style ranch in Britain. He reanched for five years in th coinces plains and magdalens jugls of south America. he began with a 75-acre hill farm on the Exeter edge of dertmoor, and now he has just added the grazing rights of more then 25,000 acres - abot 100 square miles - of moor from the agent of the duchy of cornwall, salmon beleves that it can support 1,000 head of cattle to provide britain in with beef, if only it this ranched / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857737: Jul 07, 1953 - McDonald Bailey Has His First Rugby Lesson.. Famous Sprinter Turns Professional.. Keystone Photo Shows: - McDonald Bailey the world famous sprinter - seen as he his first lesson from Coach Joe Egan - during training at the Leigh Rugby Club for whom he has signed as a professional giving up his running career. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857765: Jul 07, 1953 - Royal Society of Literature Garden Party at No. 11. The Royal Society of Literature which is 130years old - gave a garden party in the grounds of No. 11 Downing Street this afternoon... The party was attended by many well known personalities including Sir Laurence Olivier - and the President of the Society - Mr. R.A. Butler. Keystone Photo Shows: L-R: Mrs. Freyer Stark and Dame Edith Evans - at the party this afternoon. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857776: Jul 07, 1953 - Britain's only girl racing car manufacturer; 27 year old Daphine Arnott, Britain's only girl racing car manufacturer, builds her car bodies with fiber glass. Her first glass car raced at Silverstone last Saturday. Amid the crackle of tuning engines in her Edgware, Middlesex,” Shop” yesterday she said she was going to fit all ten of ther squat racers wit h20 lb fiber glass bodies. They're a third of the weight of aluminum and a dent can be pressed out gently with the hand. Holes are easy to repair with a patch of the right size and a pot of glue. Daphnie, who has spent ~ 10,000 on her business, admits,:” I've never driven in a race - yet. ♪ But that will come ♪ / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857815: Jul 07, 1953 - M.P. Presents Prizes To Nurses: Miss Pat Horsney-Smith the Conservative M.p.For Chiselhurst - and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health - yesterday paids, visit to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, for Children at Brighton, During the visit she attended the Garden Party and presented prizes to the Nurses.Phot Shows Pat Horness Smith with the prize winners from Left to right: -Front: - [Pamela Phelan, Ruth Palmer, Pamela Raynor; Pat Horsney Smith; Irene Ammer and Doreen Roake. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857836: Jul 07, 1953 - Pvt greets” Glamor” wife: Pfc Richard Napoletano of San Francisco, a Hq Ag Section, 4th Inf Div got a kiss today of a prize winning glamor girl at the Rhein Main air Base soon after she arrived with a TWA plane. His wife, Dolores (2) won NBC - TV's” Glamour Girl” title recently. Napoletano, who is in Germany since last November saw his son, who was born one week after Napoletano left for overseas, for the first time. Dolores got to appear on the new audience - participation television show when she gave as her reason for wanting to be glamorous the approaching reunion with her husband. She was one of the finalists. Audience applause declared Dolores the winner. Dolore's prizes included a complete wardrobe and an all expense paid vacation at the Bell-air Hotel, Calif., with her husband when they return stateside next March. “Glamor Girl” is a kinescoped half hour prgram, telecast daily Monday through Friday by NBC an originates in San Francisco. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857946: Jul 07, 1953 - Naval Helicopter Pilot Holds Press Conference On Return From Operations In Malaya: A Press conference was held this afternoon the The Admiralty - at which Lieut. Ronald E.E. Taylor M.B.E. - a Helicopter Pilot who has just returned from operations Malaysia - gave his impressions. he had been operating wit No. 848 Squadron - equipped with Sikorskv 5 Helicopters - and which is the Royal Navy's first operational helicopter squadron.The unit has carried over 4,000 troops in Malaysia, moved 100,000 lbs. in freight besides transporting number of casualties etc / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857996: Jul 07, 1953 - Princess Margaret” Stands In” For Her Mother.. Meets The” Wiggins” Family: As the Queen Mother Elizabeth is confined to Clarence House with a Cold- her daughter Princess Margaret visited the London Gardens in Shoreditch this afternoon in her place. Picture Shows: Princess Margaret seen with Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins as the garden of their home at 32. Lavers Road, Stoke Newington - during the visit this afternoon. / Bridgeman Images