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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1959.
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ABOVE: Prince Philip recently mode a 600-mile tour of the United Kingdom to see young people working to win his award. Here Prince Philip is talking with youths at the Ardwick Lads Club in Manchester, where the members of the club gave a firefighting demonstration in his honour. Launched three years ago the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme is designed to help character training in young people.
ABOVE: Princess Margaret arriving at a reception at St James's Palace, London, given by the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Association. The Princess was deputising for Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who was suffering from an attack of influenza and unable to fulfil ber engagements.
ABOVE: Two young soldiers hobbled painfully into London the other day and the Army had, triumphantly snatched the world marching record from the Royal Marines, who had just a week before takon it from the US Marines. They were lanco-corporals Eddie Hammond (right) and: Douglas Lane, both of the Royal Engineers, and they'd marched 110 miles from Birmingham in 34 hours 47 minutes. They didn't stop to eat, but they did eat steak sandwiches and egg, cheese and tomato sandwiches with coffee and tea en route, and every tow miles they lay down and shook their fest in the air to help the blood carry away fatigue products from the muscles. Both are 20—and they've finally laid an Army bogey. For years the other regiments have" scorned the Engineers' march- ing stylo as the "Soppers" Crawl."
ABOVE: For 90 minutos, milk transporter driver Thomas Stewart faced death, trapped in the buckled cabin of his transportar after it had skidded, somersault- ed, and then tumbled off a 20ft high bridge at Gatehouse, Scotland. The cabin, by a fluke, was left delicately balanced on the parapet itself crumbling and likely to give way at any moment. A local blacksmith was called in to burn a hole through the back of the cabin to Stowart could be freed. In on attempt to stop the transporter rolling off as the blacksmith, William Mackay, worked on the cabin, two ropos were attached, to its underside and tied to other lorries as anchors.
ABOVE: Newly enrolled teacher at the Hermas secretarial college in Lausanne, Switzerland, is Princess Ferial, daughter of ex-king Farouk of Egypt. After being educated at a Lausanne school for several years, she herself studied at the Hermes school, from which she has just graduated. With no other job in view, she's gone back to the school to teach shorthand to new pupils.
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RIGHT: On top of the world is Holland's Corine Rothschafer, adjudged the most beautiful girl in the world at London's Lyceum Balkroom recently. And now, that the winner's sushis safely stowed away 'sha'p” already made up her mind what she's going to do. With the £500 cash plize to add to Her savings she's going to open a shop and design dresses. The bubble car shoʻli ‘give to her father, a commercial traveller who now`utos The autocycle.
mako-up camera, the and the crown will go as presents to her mother, two sisters and Utile brother. And "I've al- ready said no to one film rest, but there's an offer to film in Italy which Interests me. At fuunt, the money does,"" Queen" with her head),
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ABOVE: Mr A. R. Bryan of Glasgow, smells one of the large cheeses exhibited in the dairy produce section of the Dairy Show which opened recently in London. Mr Bryan was one of the judges who took -part in judging the Supremo Chocse of the Show.
ABOVE: Two British junior athletes, bath of them record holders -- Valerie Woods (left) and Brenda Hampton uso dynomome- ters to test their reactions during general fitness tests at the National Recreation Centre at Lilleshaff, 'Shrop- shire. Both these girls are training with other athletes at the National Recreation, “ Centre to reach the stond- ards set by the Amateur Athletic Association in order to qualify for the 1960 Olympic Games of Rome.
ABOVE: Mountaineer Mrs Eileen Healey, a survivor. of the all-women's expedition to the Himalayas in which the leader and another climber were killed, arrived back in Britain the other day and said: " ` don't plan to give up climbing." Then she phoned ! her teacher husband Tim, who drove out to Gatwick Airport to pick her up. The expedition leader, Mme Claude Kogan of France, and Milo Claudine van der Stratten of Belgium were, killed in the attempt to climb the Choo Oyu peak near Everest. Picture, shows Mrs Healey at home.
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RIGHT: London's theatre critica this week saw "The World of Suzie Wong"- and came out burning with praise for the 20-year-old unknown from Hongkong, pretty Tsai Chin, who plays the name, part. But they did NOT like the play... "trito" "limp," "vulgar,"
were some of the adjectives used. Seen here is Trai Chin in a scene from the play, which is mainly set in a Hongkong brothel. Its moral is that not only the nice girls love a sailor.
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