ZUM4925340: Apr. 04, 1954 - Do you still remember the sinking of the Titanic? : 42 years ago, the modernest and biggest steamer of that time, the” Titanic” crashed by drifting ice in the floods of the Atlantic ocean in 1908 April 14th. For the remembrance of this very day the television-section of the” Hessischen Rundfunk” (Broadcast Corporation in Southern Germany) transmitted the story of the ships sinking. Quite remarkable is the fact, that the stars of the play where all persons who where rescued at that day. Herr Fritz Zurn was the former second cook of the Titanic. Today he's a gent of 64 and owner of a restaurant names Titanic in Gemmrigheim near the Neckar / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948860: Jan. 01, 1955 - The Mercy Missions Continue.. Helicopter Lands on Flight Deck Of H.M.S. Glory. Navy helicopters and R.A.F. aircraft have been carrying out their Mercy Missions over the desolate waste of snow covered Sutherland, Scotland for some days now.. They have been carrying food and supplied to the snowbound villages. The aircraft have been their only form of contact with the outer world.. Keystone Photo Shows: - Another of the missions completed - the helicopter lands on the flight deck of H.M.S. Glory in Lech Erriboll. Sutherland / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948870: Jan. 01, 1955 -” Little Chequers” - Used By The Foreign Secretary.” Dorneywood” Near Burnham Beeches: The first official occupants of” Little Chequers” - the name given to” Dorneywood”, the 43 room Queen Anne Mansion left by the late Lord Courtauld- Thomson to the nation - is Sir Anthony Eden the Foreign Secretary and Lady Eden. Dorneywood is a country house standing in 200 acres of land near Burnham Beeches, Bucks and was left to the nation as a” Lesser Chequers” for the Prime Minister of a Minister of the Crown. The house of just as Lord Courtauld-Thomson left it - and furnished mainly by 18th century furniture - with several collectors' pieces of Chippendale / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4947702: Jan. 01, 1955 - South African Minister of Justice arrives: Included in the arrivals at Waterloo Station this morning on the S.S. Bloemfontein Boat Train was Mr. Charles Robert Swart South African Minister of Justice who is feared by 8 1/2 million Africans. He was accompanied by his wife and Chief of the Special Branch Police Colonel Prinsloo. He is to attend the Commonwealth Conference as representative of Premier Stridjom / Bridgeman Images