1960-04-16 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1960.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

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ABOVE: A party of Pressmen were given their first flight recently in the Hand- Jey-Page Victor, latest and fastest and best of the RAF's V-bombers, the flight being arranged to cover a dummy H-bomb drop. Performance figures on the Vic- for-one is pictured flying over the North Wales coast are still secrot, but it carries a crow of five, and can fly faster than 600 mph higher than 40,000 fact, It has been known to pass the speed of sound in a shallow dive.

ABOVE: It was work as usual at hor secretarial job in the City of London lost wack for 31-year-old Norma Rodnall-ofter she had learnt that she is invited to Princess Margaret's wedding. A Girl Guide captain, Miss Rednall is going as representative of the Gulde

movement.

ABOVE: Picture shows the scene omid the Covent Garden carnations at the other night's gala ballat performance at the Royal Opera House. In the royal box, Front row: Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, De Gaullo, the Queen, Prince Philip, Mme De Gaulle, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.

RIGHT: After denials that

ho had been ill, Jeremy

by

Fry, who had been chosen Antony Armstrong- Jones as best man for hiz wedding to Princess Mar- garet, announced that he will be standing down from the job for health The decision FONSONS. followed a week of Palace conferences about the wedding arrangements. A Clarence House announce- mont sold that both the Princess and her fianco WORD extremely sorry. Picture shows Fry walking past the Palace shortly after he had again said that he would be bost

man.

ABOVE: This is the font used at the christening of His Royal Highness the Prince Androw last Friday. The silver-gilt font was made by J. & W. Barnard expressly for the christening of Victoria, Princess Royal, who was born in 1840. It is 17 inches high, and 16 and saven-eighths inches in diameter. Decorated on the edge with large sprays of flowers and ivy, it is in the form of a plain fluted bowl, supported on a stom fashioned like a flower, and seated on the sides of the base are three cherubs playing lyres. The Royal Arms of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort are on the sides of the base.

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ABOVE: Chancellor Hoathcoat Amory recently produced the dullest British Bud- got of recent yours-and the most unpopular with his own party at loust. extra tax on each packet of 20 cigarettes, and reductions in wine duties wore the most publicised changes, though Profits Tax has been increased and tax dodging made harder. But or least there was one piece of news to brighten the day- the egg which has been lying on the windowsill outside Amory's office finally hatched out. Picture shows Amory's Egg.

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ABOVE: The Royal Family is 'traditionally impartial (oxcept when cheering their own racehorses); but Princess Margaret failed to hido her chagrin from several milliari tefovicwers when from a following. founch she watched Oxford best Cambridge in the annual 412-mile Boat Race on the Thames. The first "woman" of the Royal Family ever to follow the Roco,.. and the first member of either sox to do so for forty- odd years, she was sitting in the bows of the Cam- bridge launch with her flance Antony Armstrong- Jonas, who himself coxed the Cambridge cight to victory in 1951,

ABOVE: Every morning, 10-year-old Marion Earthy has an unusual excort on har way to her school In Reading: a 12- month-old pigeon nick- namod Pidgio-Pie, Marion found Pidglo-Pio injured and helpless in the gutter a year ago when he was just a fledgling. The family nursed him until he could fly, then took him five miles out into the country and set him" Froo, But three days later, he was back, and now ho and Marlon are inseparable, going averywhere -to- gether,

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