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ZUM4900485: Dec. 12, 1953 - Princess Margaret goes to the Ice show and chats with comedian Norman Wisdom. H.R.H. Princess Margaret last evening attended a special gala performance of the” Sinbad the Sailor on Ice” show at London's Empress Hall. Proceeds of the performance went to the Endowment Fund of the girl guides Association of which the princess is Chief Ranger of the British Empire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900661: Dec. 12, 1953 - The Sleeping Beauty ~ tight rope walker.: The Sleeping Beauty of the fairy-tale is a fragile Princess. But the Sleeping Beauty to be danced by Leslie Caron in the new English ballet” La Belle au Bois Dorman” is a gay little English wight-rope walker. Miss Caron's rope in the ballet, which is by Roland Pete and opens in London tonight - is a foot-wide plank / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4920198: Tue 03, 1954 - American Decoration For British Colonel: Colonel. A.M. Man, DSO, OBE, HQ North-Umbrian District, Catterick Camp, Yorks, Receives The Legion Of Merit In The Degree Of Legionnaire From The U.S. Army Attaché General R.E.S. Williamson (Left) At To-Day; s, Mar 19, American Investiture At London's Winfield House. Colonel Man Was Decorated For Distinguished Service When Leading The 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, In The British Commonwealth Division During The Fighting In Korea. In One Action Personally Led His Men Across A Footbridge Over The Nakton River Under Heavy Artillery Fire From The Enemy / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4920288: Tue 03, 1954 - President Neguib taken to hospital condition said to be serious.: President Neguib collapsed at Cairo Airport this morning after seeing off King Saudi of Saudi Arabia he was rushed to hospital after an injection of atropine his condition was said to be slightly improved. President Neguin had earlier attended a meeting of the Revolucion Council with others including his Second-in-Command-Colonel Nasser, with King Saud as the host at Midnight in the Tahira Palace. The King acted as mediator between the President and members of the Council. The President wants the Council dissolved but others of the Council think it should continue / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4923835: Apr 04, 1954 - Love Philtre Kills two Girls: Scotland Yard were sure last night that a love philtre drug killed the beauty queen and her girl fellow worker, who fell ill at a London Office. Detectives are also sure that neither girl knew she had taken the drug. The girls. Miss June Malins, aged 19, of Wightman-road, Harringay, London and Cliftonville, Wimbledon, worked in the office of a manufacturing chemist. Police concentrated their inquiries on the theory that someone put the drug in food or drink taken by the girls. It is though unlikely that the person intended to kill. The drug may have been given as a form of joke. But a strong dose is fatal. The girl's office manager, Mr. Arthur Ford, of Batch-road, Houslow, is in hospital with symptoms of poisoning. In 1952 June Malins won the” Physical Excellence Girl of Margate” Competition / Bridgeman Images