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... QUEEN MARY ENTERS ON HER EIGHTIETH YEAR-- LEAVING WESTMINSTER ABBEY AFTER ATTENDING MORNING SERVICE ON HER SEVENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY The Queen Mother seen with Canon A. C. Don, the new Dean of Westminster Queen Mary was born at Kensington Palace on May 26, 1867, the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke of Teck and a great-grand- daifghter of George III. On Sunday last the Queen Mother ...
... The little Bedfordshire village of Elstow, famed as the birthplace of John Bunyan, was en fete last week for its annual May Festival which this year was combined with the village s victory celebrations. During the day thirteen- year-old June Thompson, the newly-crowned Queen of the May, drove round the green in her flower- bedecked car and at the same time the other children of the village ...
... mm I illjV The De Havilland Dove, its trials complete and its specification finalised, is now beginning to flow off the production line, and already purchasers from fifteen countries have come forward to place orders for this £14,000 machine brought out by the De Havilland Company. The Dove is a light feeder-line aircraft incorporating many of the features normally associated with big air ...
... When Bruce Woodcock, the British heavyweight champion, flew back to Britain after his defeat by Tami Mauriello, the accompanying pictures came with him. They depict the closing stages of his fight at Madison Square Garden when, after leading on points and appearing to be heading for a comfortable victory, he was knocked out by a right hook from his hard-hitting opponent. Woodcock is now ...
... BHMNHHH BOOTS BY THE THOUSAND-- U.N.R.R.A. MAKES A BOLD ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE FOOTWEAR FOR ILL-SHOD EUROPE A scene in t Science Hall of one of the buildings which was to have been used for the 1942 World's Fair in Rome, but which new co stitutes a giant boot factory. Here boots discarded by the United States Army, many of them not in pairs, are sorted out, fitted with rub! soles and heels, and ...
... The plan to hold an International Exhibition in London exactly a century after the exhibition organised with such conspicuous success by the Prince Consort in the grounds of Hyde Park is one that has met with universal acclamation, and has, at the same time, promoted a controversy. One school of thought inclines to the opinion that the World Fair of 1951 should also take place in one of the ...
... THE MARCH-PAST OF THE TANKS-- DURING THE VICTORY DAY REHEARSAL ON SUNDAY LAST The scene at the saluting-base in the Mall as the guns dipped in salute in front of the royal stand Londoners had a realistic foretaste of the Victory celebrations last Sunday morning when, despite the showers and a distinct nip in the air, many of them gathered to watch the 6 a.m. rehearsal by the mechanised column ...
... ^s\ Few parts of the world suffered more than Burma during the war. She was fought over almost from end to end her communications were ruined her agriculture paralysed and her administration entirely disrupted. After the expulsion of the Japanese the British troops found themselves obliged to undertake far-reaching responsi bilities, particularly in procuring and distributing supplies of all ...
... SCOTTISH BRAWN IN ACTION Mr. Kilged M. Balfour, of Dunfermline, executes a fine swing in the weight-slinging contest at Dunbog Highland Games, which took place recently at Aytonhill, near Newburgh, Fifeshire PRINCESS ELIZABETH AT THE NAVY LEAGUE DINNER BALL Her Royal Highness dancing with Captain Humphreys, a Guards officer, at the Dorchester Hotel function held in aid of the Navy League's Sea ...
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... THE FIRST HELICOPTER WITH A JET-- THE CIERVA W9 CREATES A SENSATION AT THE AIR LEAGUE'S FLYING PAGEANT AT SOUTHAMPTON The wingless machine hovering above the aerodrome after demonstrating the vertical take-off. The j'et unit is at the rear Visitors to the Air League's Flying Pageant at Southampton Aerodrome, Eastleigh, which provided a spectacular finale to the Southampton Aero Exhibition week ...