1956-07-21 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1956.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

FAMILY gathering outside Buckingham Palace, London, after former England cricket captain, Sir Leonard Hutton, received the accolade of Knight Bachelor from Queen Elizabeth. With him are Lady Hutton and their sons, Richard, 13, and John, 10. Hutton said after the Investiture: "I was very nervous

having to face Lindwall and Miller at opening bat." (Express)

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GROUP Captain Peter Townsend, who is giving up his job as Air Attache at the British Embassy in Brussels to make a world tour in a Land Rover, is taking a course in running repairs at the Rover works at Solihull. He will call at Hong- kong on the trip. (Express}

THREE hundred children, many of whose parents are celebrities, performed in a matinee at London's Adelphi Theatre in aid of the League of Pity, junior section of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Some of the

kiddies in the chorus line are snapped here.

(Express)

GLOBERSDEN, MOBILE JIOMES PÁRKY ŠUBREY

RICHARD MANN, 61-year-old former test pilot, now physically paralysed, shown with a painting of a £40,000 luxury caravan site for 280 caravan homes he wants to bulk on 20 acres of ground he owns near Chertsey, Cheriney Council has rejected his plan, but the has appeated. He states many caravan dwellers in England live in alum-like squalor, and heʻwints to improve their lot. (Express)

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA, daughter of the Duchess of Kent, pictured during a reception at the Albert Hall, London, where she watched more than 1,000 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides perform in a musical show. (Express)

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FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD author Eric Williams he wrote the famous wartime escape story, "The Wooden Horse" with his wife in London on the start of their 10,000-mile truck trip to the Soviet Union.

Mrs Williams, 35, will be co-driver, cook, cameraman and secretary. (Express)

LEFT: At the London premiere of "Reach For

The Sky," the film of the life of legless air ace, Group Captain Douglas Bader. Kenneth More, who plays Bader, is seen with Miss Beverley

Brooks. (Express)

RUSSIAN girls link arms with London's Lord Mayor, Alderman Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, during a visit of the Soviet Army Ensemble — currently performing in Britain — to the City's historic Mansion House. The Ensemble comprises eight girls and 200 Sovlet Army entertainers. (Express)

SCENE along a flooded road near Wimbledon Chase after a thunderstorm which struck London and produced in one area a rainfall of 2.21 inches — the largest recorded there for more than 86 years. Trafic was disrupted, several houses were struck by lightning and hundreds of basements were flooded, (Express) NANCY,

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CRASH helmets, as in picture, are to be, compulsory wear for British jockeys from September 1. This. applies to Jockeys on the flat; steeplechase jockeys have worn them for a number of years. The cap is made of several layers of stiffened linen,' conted with varnish, and fits under the jockey skull cap. (Express).

By Ernie Bushmiller

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