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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1955.
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
A tiny ship with a big job has just left London. The white painted, 849-ton Canadian sealer, Theron, is sailing 14,000 miles on a £500,000 ex- pedition to the Antarctic, where 16 men will at- tempt to make a 2,000 - mile overland crossing of the white continent Fifth from right on the rails is Dr Vivian Fuchs, 47-year-old Cambridge geologist who leads the expedition. (Express)
husband ACTRESS Elizabeth Taylor and actor Michael Wilding have just flown into London from America. He is going on to Spanish Morocco to make a swashbuckling costume picture. She will go along for a while, but has to part from him to return home for Christmas with the children. He will do studio work in England, (Express)
SCOTLAND YARD'S No. 1 detective, Richard. Leofric (Joe) Jackson, is leading a big investi- gation following the dis- covery of some of the Yard's secret files in a ftat in London. The probe is likely to lead to a big shake-up in the CID. (Express)
LEFT: The Lord Mayor's Show, tradi. tional inauguration pro- cession of London's new civic head, was held as usual this year in pour- ing rain. But thousands of Londoners gathered along the route to cheer the new Lord Mayor, Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd. Here he is in his carriage. (Express)
WHEN the Duke of Edinburgh recently visited the A. V. Ros aircraft factory at Woodford, Cheshire, he broke through a secrecy curtain in the form of a long white sheet draped across the entrance to the firm's guided weapons depart- ment. Until the Duke's visit, all information about the nature of the work behind the curtain was kept dark. The Duke, all wrapped up in cold-proof clothing, about to enter the high altitude chamber. (Express)
ACE British dress designer Norman Hartnell has written a book entitled “Silver and Gold,” and to give it a happy send-off a cocktail party was given in London, at which both socialites and fashion models were prominent. In picture, Norman Hartnell shows one of the book's illustrations to models Lana, left, and Cassandra. (Express)
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THE Duke of Windsor the King who abdicated for love is pictured leaving London for Paris. The Duke had been in England for five days. His visit was a quiet one, and he left the capital as unobtru sively as he had entered it. (Express)
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GAD, these intrepid racing drivers! Speed ace Ken Wharton daringly takes his hands off the steering wheel of his 1901, Albion to acknowledge cheers of the crowda' at the end of the London-Brighton annual "Old Crocka" run. (Express).
NANCY
LITTLE Barry Wetherall, of Clayton Buildings, Kennington, looks a trifle overawed as he sits at the. wheel of a car in the kiddies' paradise of Naafi'a giant Christmas toy fair in Kennington, London, Naaf has sent out 240,000, toys of all descriptions to its vast family of Service chlidren scattered throughout the world. (Army News)
By Ernie Bushmiller
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