ZUM4903203: January 24, 1965 - Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL (November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as well as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Churchill was uniquely stirred by the challenge of war and found his fulfillment in leading the democracies to victory. It was to prove more important that as a democrat, he was disgusted by the rise of totalitarian systems in Europe. PICTURED: Dec 29, 1953 - London, England, United Kingdom - Sir WINSTON CHURCHILL, in coat, hat and with cane, arriving at No. 10 Downing Street to take the Chancellor of the Exchequer chair after returning from Chequers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4906892: Jan. 01, 1954 - HERE COMES THE °SHORTIE- 0/00USYEAAAAC. The °shortie° smock for housewives is on its way over here Prop} Amorica. It's no brief that it barely covered, the shorts that are worn underneath. But oddly enoagh it has been designed from motives of modesty. Massives of omen do not like to do their housework or receive their guests in shorts no natter what the tbormometer registers. So the” shortie” Just slips on over the shorts like an ordinary fill-length smock, and button up the back., Some have even get big pockets to hold clothes peep or dieters and other cleaning equipment. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOES: - SBAT's the time Half-past nine - and sbo's hanging the washing on the limp in Favorite fabric for °shorties° is cotton, and the brighter the design tips better / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4901565: Dec. 12, 1953 - Models Model Clothes for Royal Dress Show. 40 Models are today showing British fashions to the Queen Mother. They will wear clothes of the Top Ten - The Incorporated Society of British Fashion Designers - and are showing them at the home of Lady Clark, the Society's President. Keystone Photo Shows:” Grand Tier” a Digby Morton gown - worn by Marla Scarafia. It is a pale topaz satin ball gown relying for effect on the cut of the fabric and carefully worked bodice drapery which swatches the ribs / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4901595: Dec. 12, 1953 - Adventurous flight to the freedom: The 52 rears old baker Bedrich Cech told his adventurous flight with his families from the Czechoslovakia to Austria to representatives of the press at Vienna. Three times the luggage-van in which the fugitives had hidden themselves passed the iron curtain before the family finally reached the freedom. Cech and his 30 years old son had made a hole under the wood loaded wagon which got air by oxygen-apparatus. At this hiding-place the two men, the daughter in law of Cech and their two children lived more than one week. Half stifled and starved they reached the American zone of Austria. The reason for their flight had been the fear being arrested because the daughter of the baker married an American and emigrated to the United States. Our pictures above shows: Marian Cech, his wife Drahomira, Bedrich Cech and the two children Vladislav (4 years old) and Vlasta (2 years old). Our picture below shows how the fugitives reconstruct leaving the wagon of the train on Austrian territory / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904485: Jan. 01, 1954 - The” Comets” Have Their Detailed Strip-Down. Investigating The Cause Of Disaster; Work began yesterday on stripping down the De Havilland” Comet: aircraft - which have been withdrawn from B.O.A.C. Service following the weekend disaster in which 35 people lost their lives when one investigation is to be in complete detail - by experts in an effort to find a lead to the cause of the fee” Comet” disaster / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4904505: Jan. 24, 1977 - Giscard d'Estaing will preside over the inauguration ceremony of the new European Palace on January 28 in Strasbourg. It was built to house the Ministers Council, the Parliamentary Assembly, and the secretarial department of the European Council whose seat is in Strasbourg / Bridgeman Images