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ZUM4916838: Tue 03, 1954 - Survivors of The” Empire Windrush” Disaster Arriving.. Walking From the Aircraft At Blackbushe. Keystone Photo Shows: - The scene at Blackbushe this afternoon as the first party to land walked from their aircraft to the Customs Shed.. They are the first arrivals - survivors of the Empire Windrush disaster - and they flew from Gibraltar / Bridgeman Images
JEB4917059: The rest of the quarries of the ochre to Roussillon. You can see the entrance of mine galleries and the different shades of ochre. Ochre is a pure clay known as Kaolinite coloured by a pigment of mineral origin Iron Hydroxide. Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur (Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur), France. Photography 2011 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917227: Tue 03, 1954 - Celebrated Analyst of Palms Country Visit to Simone Silva: Dr. Joseph Ranald, the celebrated analyst of palms, who has read the hands of many famous people over the last 30 years, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchchill Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and many Hollywood film stars, paid visit to the famous film star Simone Silva this evening. Dr. Ranald has just completed a series-of motion picture featurettes called the - 0/00USYEAaie 0/00UIHands of Destiny- 0/00USYEAIAA?. Photo shows Dr, Joseph Ranald reads the palm of Simone Silva at her London flat / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917243: Tue 03, 1954 - Colonel released on bail-attends Banquet. Colonel Norman Shakes hands with defence Minister.: Colonel Frank Norman, 56 year old Chairman of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce was arrested in his Regent Street Office yesterday and charged with being concerned in the attempted export of £214,000 worth of copper to being the Iron Curtain. He was released and bail - an then last evening he attended a banquet at the Dorchester Hotel and responded to a toast - to the Westminster Chamber of Commerce - after it had been proposed by Mr. Lloyd George the Food Minster. Three men were on Wednesday remanded at Bow Street on bail of £27,500 on similar charges, A guest of Honour at the dinner was Fieldmarshal Lord Alexander of Tunis the Minister of Defence / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917289: Tue 03, 1954 - Annual Pancake Race at Olney. A Kiss for the Winner. The annual Pancake race was won at Olney, bucks, today - by 32 year old Mrs. Joan Keech who covered the 415 yards in 72.2 secs (five secs slower than last years time). Mrs. Keech collapsed into the arms of the Vicar the Rev. Ronald Collins and said 'Never again'... There were 13 starters watched by a crowd 5,000 strong. Now they await a telephone call from Liberal, Kansas to see if their American Opponents - made better time... Keystone Photo Shows: Mrs. Joan Keech the winner kisses Mr. Maynard - at the end of the race at Olney today / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917532: Tue 03, 1954 - THE” ATOMIC BOMBSHELL OF THE ARGENTINA” ARRIVES IN LONDON FURS AND PEATHERS... Among the Arrivals at London Airport this afternoon was TILDA THAMAR - who is known as the” Atomic Bombshell of the Argentina” She traveled from Paris and is to make her first British picture” The Master Plan” opposite WAYNE MORRIS.. Tilde has starred in films in Germany-Spain and France.. She was born in Entre Rice in the Argentina - and speaks fluent English ; English; German; Italian and Spanish / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917560: Tue 03, 1954 - United States Foreign Aid Administrator Goes to the Board of Trade... Mr. Stassen the United States Foreign Aid Administration Director - who arrived in London on Saturday for trade talks with members of the British Government - went to the Board of Trade Offices this morning... Keystone Photo Shows: - Seen during their meeting at the Board of Trade this morning are Left to Right: - Mr. Thorneycroft (Pres. Board of Trade); Mr. Stassen and the Marquess of Reading / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917687: Tue 03, 1954 - Egyptian Suffragettes Call Off Hunger Strike: Dr. Doria Shafik, President of the Bent E1 Nil Union and her comrades, ended their hunger strike for women's political rights, on Friday evening, after receiving assurances from President Neguib in which he said “be sure that your demands are in honest hands”. The message was delivered to the women hunger strikers at Kasr E1 Ainy Hospital, by the Governor of Cairo, after they had been on strike for seven days / Bridgeman Images