ZUM4879071: Sep. 09, 1953 - VICTORY SMILE FROM NEVILLE DUKE AND HIS WIFE... WORLD SPEED RECORD BROWN... KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: SQADRON LEADER NEVILLE DUKE and his wife MRS > GWEN DUKE drink a toast - at a Littlehampton Hotel last evening after he had broken world speed record at 727 m.p.h. in a Hawker Hunter aircraft. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917187: Tue 03, 1954 - Sir Laurence And Jack-At Charity Show Rehearsal Preparing For” Midnight Cavalcade”: Photo shows. Sir Laurence Olivier does a spot of tap-dancing, watched by Jack Buchanan during rehearsal at the London Palladium today, for” Midnight Cavalcade” -to be held at the Palladium on Thursday next, in aid of the Actors! Orphanage Fund. They both have dance spots in the show / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917693: Tue. 03, 1954 - Cairo Women persist in their fast Egyptian suffregettes: Dr. Doria Shafik (38) and her twenty companions are persisting in their fast in an effort to pursue the authorities to allow women to vote for the Constiuent Assembly of the new Egypt. President Neguib sent his legal adviser Dr. Hafez to beg the women to end their fast in the hope that the Constituent Assembly, even if elected only by men, would confer electoral rights on women. The plea was in vain Among many telegrams received by the Egyptian Suffragettes was one from Dr. Edith Summerskill the British Socialist M.P. for Fulham West in which Dr. Summerskill said” Many British women watch with sympathy your courageous efforts to secure democratic rights / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4917833: Tue 03, 1954 - IRANIAN AMBASSADOR HOWS A PARTY TO Celebrate” FIRST DAY OF SPRING”.. Mr. ALI SOHEILY the Iranian Ambassador to London, and his wife, last evening held a party to celebrate the” First Day of Spring”.. The Spring Festival is a traditional holiday in Persia and it lasts nearly two weeks. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: - The Persian Ambassador MR. ALI SOHEILY lights a cigarette for Mrs. JALILA KHOSROVANI during the party / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879619: Sep. 09, 1953 - The” October festival” procession 1953 at Munich. At the first Sunday of the 'October Festival' the procession too place as usual, and went through the main streets of Munich. Only a few hours later when all the people enjoying the festival were sitting in the beer pavillions it began to rain. This year also a delegation from the USA, the Bavarian club from Newark, New Jersey (our picture) h d a splenderous festival car in this procession. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879902: Sep. 09, 1953 - Mrs. Maclean Believedto have left Switzerland; Mrs. Melinda Maclean and her three children missing from Geneva for six days, were believed last night to have left Switzerland. Two men a professor and a porter had told the Swiss police that they saw Mrs. Maclen and the children leave Lausanne on Friday night in a train for Zurich. The police, who had earlier found Mrs. Maclean's car in a garage opposite Lausanne railway station, said that the train had a direct connection for Austria at Zurich / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4879939: Sep. 09, 1953 - Police wait for Mrs. MacLean at garage. Search for missing diplomat's wife goes on. Swiss police are waiting today at the Garage de la Gare at Lausanne, where Mrs. Melina MacLean left her black Chevrolet car, a week ago. Mrs. MacLean told the garage men she would be “back in a week”. The police are there in case she turns up to mystery of her disappearance with her three children. Mrs. MacLean, wife of the missing British Diplomat Donald MacLean left her Geneva flat last Friday telling her mother Mrs. Dunbar, that she and her children were to spend the weekend with friends in Montreux / Bridgeman Images