THE CHINA
SATURDAY, JUNE
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
ABOVE: Tho ethor night's performance of Medea at the Covent Gardon opera house was coincidentally a show- piece of Greek talent. Directing was Alexia Minotis: the sets were by John Tsarouchis; the plat was of course ancient Greek; and star of the
·ovening was fiory soprano Maria Callos in the titto role. And in the audienco were 36 guests of ship- owner Aristotle Onassis. Picture shows tompestu- dug Maria Callas in Medea,
RIGHT: Brian London, staggered still by the £1,000 fino and Bix
months suspension im- posed by the Boxing Board of Control aftor ho'd defied their ban on
his title fight against Floyd Patterson, will be having his next fight in America. Recently, after talking over with his wife Veronica an affor to tour America, making · fight
and TV appearances af £35,000 a year, he said: "We've decided to NC- cept. I'm in this game for money as I've always said—and this is big manay." But first of all ho's taking a holiday in Spain while his appeal. against tho sentence goes through. Picturo shows Brian and Voroni- ca—sho's expecting a boby leaving Cook's travel agency in Black, pool after booking for their Spanish holiday-- on the Costa Brava.
ABOVE: Zelda Frank, miracle baby just one year old, -played happily on the floor of her Reading, Berkshire,
home the other day. Miracle baby because she hai three holes in her heart. Her 39-year-old mother, Mrs Peggy Frank, had no trouble with three other children, but Zelda had bad bronchiol, bouts in her first month, twice seriously, and failed to put on weight. So she went to the Royal Berkshire Hospital for a check up, and was kept in a private ward for three months, before being sent on to Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, one of Britain's leading heart hospitals. And there specialists reported that she had three holes in her heart; and But forecast that the. only had another your to live.
at five months they operated, and successfully plugged one of the holes. Now she's building up strength for another operation-in July or August; an operation that could snatch for her a normal life expectancy.
BELOW: Goal of every education-minded Danish teen ager is to get the red-and-white caps which mark them as having reached undergraduate status. Recently, the coveted head-gear was awarded to. Princess Margrethe, hair-apparent to the throne, who has just finished her high-school course with all the necessary bonours. Picture, shows Princess Margrethe and friend Birgitte Juel, daughter of the court chamberlain, both proudly wearing their newly-awarded caps,
ABOVE: Model of the; proposed. Commonwealth - Institute building which
is to be built on London's
Kensington High Street, with work starting in the spring of 1960, The warped roof covers the Exhibition Galleries; the
Art Gallery and Cinema are to the north and the administration bulidings to the south.
LEFT: Sunday or Smithi's Lawn, Windsor—and as
usual, horse-loving Prin cms, Anne
ane helps groom
her father's polo pöntés. Only last week she had
a new helper, ona who up
cara
to now hasn't seemed to
much about
horses as the rest of the
family-Prince Charles.
ABOVE: The yachting cynics say thot boat are a wheelbarrow, an surfektid;am find themselves, settled with o^Tema your-old Brian Barnes, who Jackie, 20, to to skimming over he
075
ABOVE:, Britain's' nationalised)
among the most outdated in the ch step towards 1959, with the introduction tween London and Bristol, ! On, Ifs first rú nye :(122.77 km.p.k.) for: the:1181⁄44-mile (190.)
utes, 7 minutes earlier than expected, schedule. Picture shows the Briatelian leaving Puc
"ble, "putation of being other day the' took another service, the Bristolian, bé-
averséed
completed in 93: warlier than the old star
NANCY
By Ernie
THAT DUMB GROCER
TAKE IT: BACK
OH DEAR
RAIN
I'M GRAN
SENT
LUMP, SUGAR