ZUM4844190: May 05, 1953 - They recently held a vacuum cleaning contest between men and housewives an well-known Jungfernstieg in the center of Hamburg. This contest proved that men were much more perfect and faster than housewives. We are showing some snapshots of the side of the losers. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844290: May 05, 1953 - Into Battle - with Polar Bear... Scene from the Canadian Arctic. A fight begins on the snowy waste battleground in the Canadian Arctic, 60 miles from the magnetic North Pole... A team of husky dogs has surprised a Polar Bear... The picture was taken by Kayak an Eskimo Special Constable with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police - and brought to London by reporter T.F. Thompson who went in a Hastings plane with the Royal Air Force on a polar flight, designed to provide Arctic Experience for ten “super navigators”. The fight ended when the companion of Kayak shot the Polar bear. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4844554: May 05, 1953 - Large and small shells are used by German missionaries with the papuas on New-Guinea to replace organs. They are blowing chorales on them. They are also using a special sound and note-syste invented by them as there may only one sound be blown on one shell. The shell - chorus being similar to the trombon- ~ ~ ~ ~ in its sound can, on the whole world, be found on two places ~ ~ ~ ~ ~: in New-Guinea (the second largest island in the world in the North of Austrlia) and in the Middle-Frankonian place Neuendettelsau where there is a training - school for missionaries. At the occasion of the looth anniversary of the foundation of the Menendettelsau institution the shell-chorus gave a special performance for the present guests. Our picture shows some scene of the chorus with the shell. the largest of which has the size of an adult person. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4845026: May 05, 1953 - British F.P.B's on way for Exercises with Danish and Norwegian Navy Ve ~ ~ els.: Eight fast patrol boats including four long boats and four short boats left H.M.S. Hornet in the Solent yesterday - to take part in exercises with the Royal Danish and Norwegian Navies. In Danish of Lieut, Comm. J.A. Syms D.S.C.R.N. / Bridgeman Images