ZUM4910178: Feb. 02, 1954 - Vilayat Inayat Khan is name of the” Sufi” preacher, son of an Indian ruler. the Sufi movement, founded by his father and already known in today's world, is now aiming to help the Western world lead a life without fear. Here: Vilayat Inayat Khan spoke first in Hamburg over fleeting and eternal happiness / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4910291: Feb. 02, 1954 - Greek Hostages Return From Behind Iron Curtain Back From On Hungary: A party of 501 Greek prisoners arrived at Igoumentsa, N.W. Greece recently aboard the s.s. Miaoulis, from Venice. These people ere living in villages near the border and were forced across he frontier into the Iron Curtain countries between the years 1947 - 49. They are part of 1231 who are being returned to Greece from Hungary / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4919715: Mar 03, 1954 - Orchestra Leader Goes To the Palace In Wheelchair Returns To Hospital After Receiving O.B.E.: Mr. George Stratton, 27 year old former leader and associated conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra - traveled by car and wheel chair from the Bolinngbroke Hospital, Balham this morning to Buckingham Palace to receive the O.B.E. from the Queen Mother at today a Investiture.. He has been an inmate of the hospital for the past fourteen weeks. He resigned from the Orchestra in September 1952 so that he could devote more time to conducting and teaching at the Royal College of Music / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4919551: Tue 03, 1954 - Giant Crane in London - “” Alphonse””, a French tower crane more than 300 ft. high at its fullest extent, has been erected on an LCC building site at Wandsworth. The crane, which is self-erecting and telescopic, will be used in the building of several eleven-storey blocks of flats for the LCC. It si the tallest tower crane in Britain, and the radius of its jib is 78 ft. Through a circle of 360 degrees. Its lifting capacity is 3-tons at a reach of 23 ft., progressively reducing to 15 cuts at the farthest extent of the jib / Bridgeman Images
ETE4919628: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): In front of the Town Hall, the crew of A.M. 8 “” Champs Elysees”” with Warrant Officer Emile Laucery, Private Emile Lalanne and Private Jean Quignon of the reconnaissance squadron of the 2nd Regiment of Dragons of the 1st French Armee and an American A.M. 20 , with Sergeant Louis Basil, Corporal Edgar Ellis and Corporal Newmann of the 106th U.S. Cavalry Group of the Third U.S. Army. / Bridgeman Images