ZUM4839585: May 02, 1953 - 2-5-53 New United States Ambassador to Italy greets American Defence Minister in Rome. Keystone Photo Shows: Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, newly appointed American Ambassador to Italy, greets Mr. Wilson, the American Minister of Defence when he arrived in Rome recently. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4839677: May 04, 1953 - British” Comet” Airliner Crashes Near Kolkata... Forty-Three Killed In Mysterious Accident. Investigators are proceeding into the mysterious crash over the weekend of a British Comet Jet Airliner.. The machine was seen to nose-dive like a ball of fire over a village - only six minutes after taking off from Dum Dum airport, Kolkata, India - on the journey to London.. There were no survivors of the Forty-three passengers and crew. Keystone Radio Photo Shows: - The tail end of the fuselage of the Comet which was found about 150 yards from the main wreckage, near Calcutta. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4839701: May 04, 1953 - British” Comet” Airliner Crashes Near Kolkata... Forty-Three Killed In Mysterious Accident. Investigators are proceeding into the mysterious crash over the weekend of a British Comet Jet Airliner.. The machine was seen to nose-dive like a ball of fire over a village - only six minutes after taking off from Dum Dum Airport, Kolkata, India.. There were no survivors of the passengers and crew numbering Forty-Three.. Keystone Radio Photo Shows: - Part of the wreckage of the Comet - after the crash, near Calcutta during the weekend. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4839784: May 04, 1953 - At the final game of the German Soccer Championship Eintracht Frankfurt and FC K? With in Frankfurt am Main on Sunday in front of 65,000 spectators to compete. The game ended with Eintracht winning 2:0. Pictured Left: The go-ahead goal for Eintrachtis is scored. Pictured Right: Gawliczek (K? ln) during an artistic kick. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4839812: May 05, 1953 - SILENCE AT SUEZ: Anglo-Egyptian talks over the protection of the vital Suez Canal have been suspended without agreement. The single land bridge between the Eurasian land-mass and Africa, with front and back doors on two seas, the Canal Zone has unsurpassed port and transportation facilities, is a fully equipped technical and military base, and is a vital 90-mile natural pivot of defense-offensive strategy for the Middle East. Picture shows: Corner of the huge British arms dump of Tel EL Kebir in the Suez Canal Zone. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4849335: Jun 06, 1953 - Wimbledon Championships... Fashion Note from Belgium... Keystone Photo Shows: Mrs. Margaret Peten - wife of the Belgian tennis player wears a smart black and white outfit comprising a large black straw hat - white shawl edges with black straw - when she attended the Wimbledon Tennis Championships this afternoon. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4849534: Jun. 06, 1953 - Bride Arrives at Wimbledon - for Championships.. only married this morning: Competing in the Wimbledon tennis Championships this afternoon is Swiss tennis star Violette Rigollet. She arrived at the courts accompanied by her husband Mr. Ludolf Brinski, former polish former, who has lived in Switzerland for the past nine years. The couple were married this morning at the Keraington Register Office / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4849621: Verdun, France - Over the trenches searching enemy observation is made day and” Illegible” and the English gunners at Verdun have to be screened from all observation. The English Gunners day by day prove to the German Command their overpowering superiority in their particular. This and the accompanying two pictures show how the English Work with much success. This photograph shows observation balcony of the battery. This armed simple looks like and earth eruption. The gun shown in the other photograph beneath completely hidden and from here the officers are judging the range. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4849934: Jun. 06, 1953 - Duke Of Edinburgh's Racing Yacht Arrives By Road For The Regatta: Photo Shows The Duke of Edinburgh's racing yacht” Bluebottle” - is unloaded from a lorry on arrival at Granton - after traveling 500 miles by road from Gosport - to take part in the Forth Regatta. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879619: Sep. 09, 1953 - The” October festival” procession 1953 at Munich. At the first Sunday of the 'October Festival' the procession too place as usual, and went through the main streets of Munich. Only a few hours later when all the people enjoying the festival were sitting in the beer pavillions it began to rain. This year also a delegation from the USA, the Bavarian club from Newark, New Jersey (our picture) h d a splenderous festival car in this procession. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879714: Sep. 09, 1953 - London Mayors On Visit To The Hopfields.. She Enjoys Her Pipe = - Does Rebecca: Photo Shows Councillor F. Sanders the Mayor of Bethnal Green - looks on while 76 year old Rebecca Jefferies of Mitcham - enjoys her pipe - while picking hops - during a visit to the hopfields at Beltring, nr. Paddock Wood - of a Party of London Mayors. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879793: Sep. 09, 1953 - 9-9-53 Motor Cycling Championships at Monza - Eric Oliver and Fergus Anderson, both of Britain, won the world motor cycling championships for the sidecar and 350 c.c. classes after riding in the Monza Grand Prix, Italy. Oliver won the 500 c.c. sidecar event and Anderson was second to Enrico Lorenzetti (Italy) in 350 c.c. race. Geoffrey Duke, also of Britain, won the 500 c.c. event on the Italian Gilera machine to establish an unbeatable points lead for the world championship. Keystone Photo Shows: Striking action picture during the 500 c.c. sidecar race at Monza, Italy. Julien Deronne (Belgium), 8n left (No. 2), forges ahead of Jacques Keller (Switzerland), No. 24. The riders on right are unidentified. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879902: Sep. 09, 1953 - Mrs. Maclean Believedto have left Switzerland; Mrs. Melinda Maclean and her three children missing from Geneva for six days, were believed last night to have left Switzerland. Two men a professor and a porter had told the Swiss police that they saw Mrs. Maclen and the children leave Lausanne on Friday night in a train for Zurich. The police, who had earlier found Mrs. Maclean's car in a garage opposite Lausanne railway station, said that the train had a direct connection for Austria at Zurich / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879925: Sep. 09, 1953 - Police wait for Mrs. MacLean at garage. Search for missing diplomat's wife goes on. Swiss police are waiting today at the Garage de la Gare at Lausanne, where Mrs. Melina MacLean left her black Chevrolet car, a week ago. Mrs. MacLean told the garage men she would be “back in a week”. The police are there in case she turns up to mystery of her disappearance with her three children. Mrs. MacLean, wife of the missing British Diplomat Donald MacLean left her Geneva flat last Friday telling her mother Mrs. Dunbar, that she and her children were to spend the weekend with friends in Montreux / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879939: Sep. 09, 1953 - Police wait for Mrs. MacLean at garage. Search for missing diplomat's wife goes on. Swiss police are waiting today at the Garage de la Gare at Lausanne, where Mrs. Melina MacLean left her black Chevrolet car, a week ago. Mrs. MacLean told the garage men she would be “back in a week”. The police are there in case she turns up to mystery of her disappearance with her three children. Mrs. MacLean, wife of the missing British Diplomat Donald MacLean left her Geneva flat last Friday telling her mother Mrs. Dunbar, that she and her children were to spend the weekend with friends in Montreux / Bridgeman Images