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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, · OCTOBER 17, 1959.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

ABOVE:

Double line-up of beauty here is formed by the 20 finalists in the "Teenager of the Year" Contest organised by. Mecco dance-halls on behalf of the Norvis shoe company. The winner will get £100, a job as a model, and the title; but a preliminary trophy for the "Most Photogenic Girl" has already been presented to the challenger from Leeds, Anne Marie Chadwick (fourth from right, front row).

RIGHT?^ At.ona oʻclock

In the morning, the day after the elections began In Britain last week, a resigned Mr Gaitskell called reporters together in Labour's London head- quarters, and told them: "It's obvious there will be a Conservative Government... wa feel bound to concede the result of the election." AN that time, first results showed a voting swing of 1.2 per cent to · the Conservatives -enough to give them a majority of 100 in the new Parliament. Since , then the trend was more than confirmed. The Tories total vota was 49.3 per cent of the total cast. Labour collected 43.9 per cont and the Liberals 5.9 per cont. Minor parties collected 0.9 per cent. Seen here are the crowds Trafalgar Square watching the results

сомо up on illuminated scoreboard. In the bottom picture is the scone outside No. 10 Downing Stroot when the tenant return- ed. Mr. Harold · Macmil- kin is pictured chatting to some who made his victory possible.

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ABOVE: The push-button era enters the hospital word with this revolutionary new and automatic bed, demonstrated by Gill Emberton in readiness for the London Nursing Exhibition at the Seymour Hall, Marylebono, London, Gill shows how, by pressing a button, she can bring herself from the prone to the sitting, or any intermediate position, without help. Special switches allow disabled patients to control the bed with foot, elbow, shoulder or head. The bed costs eighty guineus, and a special narrow model is available for homo use.

ABOVE: Walking from her plane at London Airport the other night is Princess Alexandro, home at last from her 35,000-mile tour of Australia and the Far East. There to meet her wore the Duchess of Kent, her mother, and her brother Prince Michael.

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RIGHT: Prince Albert of Liege, the heir to the Belgian Throne, brought his wife Princess Paola to London for a brisk 24-hour shopping trip. It was too brisk for the Princess who pecting a child in the spring. When she ar- rived at London Airport the other night with her hutband sho was not well enough to board tho Brussels aircraft im- mediately. The flight was delayed while Prince Albert took his wife who, despite her recent ly ended two months' holiday in the Balearic Istands, was pale faced -to a private room. When they came out some minutes later the Princess was coughing. "She was ill," a spokes- man, said, Earlier Prince Albert called at his tailor, his wife shopped in Knightsbridge.

RIGHT:

Taking their

third look at London in. five years of marriage are Hollywood star Fred MacMurray and wife June Haver, From Lon don they go on to Paris, then Rome, Madrid; back

Hollywood, where MacMurray has been signed by Disney to play the lead in - his latest comedy The Absent-Minded Profes- Bor" This follows Mac- 'Murray's' muccess - in Dianey's "The Shaggy

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ABOVE: It's meal-time at the London Zoo for John, the baby giroffe born there 14 months ago.. And as be cranes his neck out for his lunch, on goes the tape- recorder just round the comer, pouring out "noises-off" Imitations of ship's leave for Now hooters and dockyard bustle. For John...dis - soon cato Zooland, and it was decided that he should be got used to dockside and 'ship- board noises before he sailed. The noises were recorded by Zoo librarian Leonard Ellis-not from life-but by Imitating them with bottlesa cider "¥lagon for foghorn, and smaller ones for higher-pitched sounda.

NANCY

WILL YOU LEND ME YOUR BASS DRUM

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--- I'M IN PARADE TODAY.

I'LL RENT

IT TO YOU: FOR 504

OF ALL

I WONDER

IF HE'S

·MAD AT ME

ABOVE: Dressed as un air hostess of the future, this sir hostess of KLM, the Royal Dutch” airline celebrat-. ing its 40th anniversary, this month, is seon · on arrival in London recently from Amsterdam, looking (as if; whe la ready to fly with passengers to the moon and back! The Dutch airline is the oldest in the world. World-wide celebrations are being held, and the Netherlands - Government are issuing two postage stamps, to mark the occasion."

By Eralo Bushmiller.

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