THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.
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AT St Mary's Ho-pital Medical School, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh pre- senis Sir Alexander Fleming. discoverer of penicillin, with two George sauce bowls
from the Earl of Verulam to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the dis- covery.
LEFT: The star of the British film, "The new Seckers," arrives with her escurt at the premiere at London's Odeon Theatre. Laya Raki is of mixed German und Javanese parentage. She co-stars with Jack Hawkins and Glynis Johns. (Express)
RIGHT: Nineteen-year. old Rita Devar, from Cal- culta, leaving Ealing for Wimbledon wearing A Hari. On the court she wears white shorts. Miss Devar is studying art in Calcutta, and this year was her first season as a senior ut Wimbledon. (Express)
THE chance that every Wimbledon ball boy dreams about came to 17-year-old orphan Peter Darling when, on the packed No. 2 Court, seeded American Art Larsen, waiting for his doubles partner, said to him: "Pick up a racket and let's have some practice." Soon the crowd was cheering Peter's cheeky volleying at the net against the star. (Express)
KING GUSTAV of Sweden driving with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to Buckingham Palace on his recent State visit to Britain. The Queen of Sweden and the Duke of Edinburgh followed in a second carriage. (Express)
HIER Majesty the Queen Mother inspecting a guard of honour in Dundee just before she was made a Burgess of the city. She also accepted the Freedom of the City on behalf of the Black Watch, of which she is Colonel-in-Chief.
CROP spraying of insecticides and fungicides is now in progress up and down the
inaction spraying vast fields of
English Countryside, A helicopter la saen in act
potatoes at Downham Market, Norfolk, with an anti-potato blight fungicide
SCENE at the SSAFA
Tattoo at White City,
ghowing the Lovat
Scouts, led by their piper, crossing the bridge on the River Orne on D-Day. (Army News)
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SOME of the cream of British society and some of the biggest names in show business turned out to see Marlene Dietrich in cabaret at the Cafe de Paris. Been here are the Earl and Countess of Harewood (left) and Mr and Mrs Douglas Fair- banks. (Express)
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THERE were two passengers aboard the 900-ton Royal research ship, John Biscoe, when she docked at Southampton after a nine-month, 85,000-mile trip, to the Antarctic to supply scientific bases there. Gregor Brechin has come from the Falkland Islands to go to school at Dumfries. Smoky, the grey per. sian cat, will rejoin its owner, Bir Miles Clifford, former Governor of the Islands. (Express)
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