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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY“, AUGUST -15,-- 1959-
HOMESIDE PICTORIAL
ABOVE: Poter Town- send's old squadron,
No 85 of Fighter Com- mand, recently flow their Javalin night- fighters into the Kent airfield of Wost Malling, where under famous ace "Cats Eyes" Cunning- ham they were stationed Until during the war.
the reopening of Malling, there had boon no RAF planes stationed in Kent since the closing
of
Biggin Hill, though it was the front line of our air defences in the Battle of Britain; Picture shows 85 Squadron's Javelins lined-up olong- side two absolate but battle-honoured veterans of World War II-a Spitfire (nearest camera) and a Hurricane.
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BELOW: Forty-nine- year-old Tom Huwa was crowned Bard of Wales at Caernarton the other day, and announced that he would boycott the Eisteddfod next year if the Queen goes ahead with hor plan to attend and speak in English. Said Huws: "Having rasigned (from the Eisteddfod committee) with others on this im portant principle, I wiff not be there even as a privato visitor if the Queen offends." it has boen an accepted principle of the Eistedd- fods for many years that only. Welsh should be spoken. Picture shows the Gorsedd ceremony at a recent session of the National Eisteddfod..
ABOVE: It was Horse Show week in Dublin and bars stayed open very late. And in one of them the other day Robert Mitchum, hero of many a Hollywood brawl, found himself landed ·In, areal-life fight. This le how he tells the story: "A guy asked me for an autograph. I said 'Let me get a drink first,* but he was real insistent. He slapped a slip of paper down...i wrote something (a friend later said it was three typical Army words) on the paper and signed it Kirk Douglas,...Next thing I knew I was socked on the nose." Mitchum is in Dublin to film "A Terrible Beauty tale of the IRA. Picture shows tousled Mitchum, and bruised nose.
LEFT: Princess Alexandra ended a three-week holiday In Italy recently by flying in to London Airport in o headscarf and casual skirt and swääter--to be met by. her brother the Duke of Kent, on 'a 48-hour pass from his army unit in Germany. A week later, she loft England again-on an official tour of Australia.
BELOW: Britain's first-and still top-rock 'n' roll stor Tommy Steele seen at London Airport the other day on his way to the Moscow Film Festival. In the brown paper wrapping-a spare guitar, a present for Mr K.
ABOVE: This year Outward Bound. School; for British schoolboys has been established af Hoi'ne Park, near Ashburton, Devon, Here. boys between the ages of 151⁄2 and 191⁄2 are taking part in the first 26-day course · devated character・・ training. Picture shows a youngua canonist shooting a fall,"
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LEFT: Vacation of the European Heavyweight Championship by...
Sweden's Ingemar Johansson (automatic on his winning the world : championship) may set
for a poser
British champlon Henry Cooper....... (ston here). He for oxal pected to be named, by the European Boxing Union to fight the, wine ner of the September 12 .bout between, Ger.H mony's Hans Koiblell a n'd, Hallan" Giacomo Bozzano for the title." () Bozzano wins all will be wall — but not if the German wins. British promoters ban Germans. from fighting In ́Britišk sings, and Cooper swore never again: tu boxin Germany after he claims ed he'd been given a rów. deal in being disqualified against Erich Schoepner, ∙lart your
NANCY
ROLLO, THE RICH KID HAS A TENT AND HE'S "GOING TO CAMP OUTL
SAGE TONIGHT!
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ABOVE: Groups outside. Buckingham Palace last week" read the news "A" Baby Early Next Year?" in the papers, which refers to Queen Elizabeth's officially ens nounced pregnancy. The Queen is on holiday at Balmoral, (See also Page 5).
By Ernie Brehmiller
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