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ZUM4881372: Sep. 13, 1953 - Solti to America. General music director Georg Solti said goodbye this afternoon to Frankfurter Rhein Main airport for severe-weeks-long tour through the United States. A visa to the United States had been denied him several weeks ago, because he was said to have associated with a communist front organization in Munich, however this reason for impediment later proved to be invalid. Solti beamed before his departing flight as he showed the journalists his pass with the hard-earned visa. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881435: Sep. 14, 1953 - This Man's A Miner: Grimy and sweating Bob Shaw left the coalface at Clara Vale Colliery, County Burham. Then in the performed air of a hairdresser's parlous he relaxed and waited for” Perm”,” I want a Tony Curtis”, he ordered. For in the smart set of - Blaydon-on-Tyne you are no one if you don't look like Tyrone Power of Alan Ladd. Already the hairdresser has 15 regular male customers for film stars' hair-do's. It only costs 10s. said Bob. “I earn a week at the pits so I can afford it. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4881546: Sep. 15, 1953 - Doreka - the first double-reflex-camera: The engineer Konrad Paasch from Berlin an old practiced photographer constructed the first double-reflex-camera and he already announced the patent. At the Doreka as well the color-film as also the black and white film are together in one box naturally separated. Double seized it is fit out by a mirror-camera. Besides this new construction engineer Paasch intends to contract also a” double box” / Bridgeman Images