ZUM4927688: May 03, 1954 - Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. thinks that being a multimillionaire does not count as a profession. The grandson of the American railway tycoon became a journalist. With film camera, audio recorder, and typewriter in hand he travels the world. 25,000,000 Americans read his tales three times a week in over 800 newspapers. He also appeared on tv in the production” Showa.” He is pictured here in Hamburg where he is collecting stories for his show. After Hamburg he will travel on to Bremen, Duesseldorf, Koeln, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, and Munich / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927793: May 04, 1954 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands prepares for visit to Britain.: Photo shows a happy study of the Dutch Royal Family - in preparation for the forthcoming visit to Britain of H.M. Queen Juliana - who is to receive the Honorary Freedom of the Carpenters' Company and to attend a parade of the Royal Sussex Regiment. Queen Juliana is seen in front with her youngest daughter Princess Marijke; and Princess Irene and their father Prince Bernhard is seen behind on left Princess Margret and on right Crown Princess Beatrix / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928150: May 05, 1954 - A cask of beer... the terrible enfant of Hollywood Orson Welles, tapped in the Munich” beer inn”” Platzl” well known all about the globe, by himself, after having finished his film work near” Hofbrauhaus”. Cause of his Munich stay is his latest picture” Mr. Arkadin”, in which Marlene Dietrich herself plays a mainpart. The Munich beer tasted Orson Welles very good. As a matter of fact there couldn't be a original Munich meal without” Brezn” and” Radi”. Down from the wall the former Minich folks - clown Weiss Ferdl wtched the seen who fascinated for years the strangers from abroad, on the stage of the” Platz ' / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929248: May 05, 1954 - Roger Bannister does it. Runs mile in under four minutes: Britain's Roger Bannister has done it. Last night he ran the fabulous four minute mile, a feat which the world's athletes have been trying to achieve for years, His time the three minutes 59.4 seconds. As he passed the post at Oxford's Iffley road track he was swept up in a mass of cheering, shouting spectators / Bridgeman Images