1959-09-26 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, USATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,” · 1939.

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ABOVE: A 15-year-old' British international swimmer Diana Wilkinson, first woman to swim 100 yards in less than a minute, is to give up international swimming for the rest of the year. Schoolgirl Diana has recently lost form, and has been advised by her parents to rost from competition and stay out of the water for six wooks. 'Picturn shows Diana and her mother.'"

ABOVE: Some 450 delegates from 33 countries, under the presidency of Senhor Quirino da Fonseca of Portugal, mat the other day in London for the" opening of a conference of marine underwriters. Picture shows the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Harold Gillett, listening to the opening speach by Senhor do Fonseca, On the loft is delegate Rostock Jensen.

ABOVE: Earl Beatty recently arrived back from a Mediterranean cruise with 18-year-old dob Diane Kirk, who was wearing an 'ongagement ring' which' sho' did not possess when the left. The 54-year-old Peer, thrice married, denied any romanco by saying "Theró is no romance betwoon mo`and Diano and I am a very old friend of her family's, and I have known her for more than a year." Diane's mother has described the rumour of a romance as "ridiculous.”

ABOVE: Rawing champion B. Perry recently took the first of a now series of fibreglass dinghies out on to the

Solent and' tried: his' hardest." to sink it. Only once did he manage to capeixe it, and ovon then it righted again with no difficulty. The dinghy was the first of the Alpha class of 12 footers, built by Bristof Aircraft Limited to a design by two Oxford man, and for a first order from the Oxford University Yacht Club, Picture shows 5. S. Wilson, one of the two designers, with the dinghy.

ABOVE: Lord Beaverbrook, the. Canadian ́clergyman's son, who by his 40th birth- day had risen to become, in turn, a millionaire, a British M.P., ownor of Britain's most powerful newspapors, a cabinet minister, and a poer, recently realised the ambition of a lifetime. In a simple ceremony, he presented to the people of New Brunswick-whore he was born just over 80 years ago—the first art gallory the Atlantic Provinces of Canada kava ever possessed, With it go a collection of over 300 paintings and 1,000 drawings and lithographs he has collected in the last 40 years, and a generous endowment fund for the gallery's upkoop. He Is seen here--alone in the freasury of art that now belongs to his fellow citizoni.

ABOVE: Up amongst London's chimney pots,” Miss Brenda Elsen, of St Mary's Cray, Kent, takes reading from the variod array of instruments which confront her on this, the now location of the "Air Ministry Roof," For it is from this position that London's weather is recorded. Up until recently readings on the "Air Ministry. Roof" were taken ot nearby Victory House in London's Kingsway where weather instruments had been used for the last 21 years, but. now they are to be found only a stone's throw away, up on the roof of Princes ·House, where this picture

was taken.

ABOVE: For over a year, travelling art dealer Liawollyn Evans has bean touring US bases in Britain with a vonload of paintings. But there was one painting; of medieval merrymakers, which he just couldn't sell at his asking price of £500, though he did turn down one offor, of £250. Now Llewellyn in glad he couldn't find a buyer for exports of the National Gallery and the Rijkemuseum, Amsterdam, havo identified the artist as Ludovic Pozzoiorato, a Fleming who worked in Italy in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. And they reckon the 29" x 50" painting is worth at least £10,000.

ABOVE: Challenging the ancient Castle and Holyrood Palace as a tourist attrac tion in Edinburgh is an innovation the Museum of Childhood, which was startad four years ago by a confirmed bachelor on the Town Council, Patrick Murray, Staco two costumed dolla gave him the idea,,the Museum has outgrown its original home, now attracts educationists, folklore specialists and sociólogists from all over the world. "Picture shows Patrick Murray, with some of the dolls an' exhibition.'. The display also includes outradded nursary games, first editions of children's magazines and comics, the first pin-shooter, d 60-your-old walking doll, and even a cosa full of custor-oll" and "other"dlitasteful medicines

childhood.

ABOVE: Pauline Hohn; 17-year-old actress, loses no tima in studying hor script. She reads it over at the Westbury Hotel, Mayfair, only a short, while after arriving in London from New York spcontly to star In "Too Young to Love, film version of the play,

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“ABOVE: John Piper seen at work on the mosaic mural ho is designing for the BBC's new Television Centre, a huge modam building now under construction in West London, Mr. Piper was commissioned by the BBC to do the mural, which.. measures 16% feet by 26 feet, and which is an abstract pattern In brilliant. colours. It will occupy a commanding position in the entrance hall of the "nrw Centre,

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