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The Brilliant but Unorthodox

... more than com pensated for his complete inability to run a hare. To have won the Lincoln Cup, the East cf England Cup, and to have divided the Ald ridge's Cup, to have won fourteen courses in little less than ten weeks, is a performance which speaks ...

FROM LONDON TO SOUTHAMPTON

... was actually used by Captain Scott) on a tour of London to advertise the Polar Exhibition which is being held on Scott's old Discovery, now the property of the Boy Scouts' Association for training Sea Scouts. The exhibition of equipment used in polar surveys ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1275 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Skying the Ball--and Other Matters

... head-on collision with a big motor-bus. Hogan, as we have seen, looked far from well when he visited us this past autumn as captain of the Ryder Cup Team. Mangrum's accident appears to have resulted from a car accident and a difference of opinion between ...

Prospects for 1950

... Amateur title for us otherwise all our other trophies are abroad. We are told that Bobby Locke and Norman Von Nida will be with us for most of the season, as they ignore the fact that our old pound is pretty low in tjie eyes of the world to-day; hoping the ...

CHOOSE YOUR CENTURY: A Discourse on the Best of Times

... the lovely scene have faded. It was the World War with its post-war revolution and austerity which tore the graceful canvas out of its frame and threw it on the scrap-heap in the twinkling of an eye. Had two world wars been averted, it is probably reasonable ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1418 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

Centenaries Of 1950

... this upheaval. The name of Tussaud came from the Frenchman she married in 1794, but from whom she soon parted. Coming to England with a collection of her wax figures she first toured the provinces, and later established herself in Baker Street, subsequently ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1273 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

TEACHING BRITONS TO BE GOOD--WITHOUT LOSING

... players than with big classes. The old Surrey and England fast bowler is continuing, with conspicuous success, the cricket school started by Sandham and Strudwick, of his county. Ambition to discover England's next fast bowler. Meanwhile he is helping many ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

THE HOME NEWS IN PICTURES

... suggestions from all over the world) include I sturdier general construction, greater passenger comfort resulting from a wider I body, and improved braking. The wishbone-type coil spring independent front sus- I pension, used on the I i'litre model, has ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1034 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Priscilla in Paris: The Camellias Bloom Again

... drivers in the midst of the melee who had no cotton-wool to stuff in their ears, and had to use oily waste instead. I was taught a good deal about driving by a pre-World War One winner of several Austrian Alpine contests. His advice was Never touch the 'ooter ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 855 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM LONDON AND THE PROVINCES: THE HOME NEWS IN PICTURES

... on the Bath Road, well known to motorists, is due to be demolished next J I The Old Magpies Inn is one of the oldest in England. It will be demolished when a J tunnel, running from the road to the central terminal area of London Airport, is constru J ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 914 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Up and down the land

... of his daughters won the Empire Cup Class and was best Guernsey in the Inspection Classes at the London Dairy Show in 1949. The bull won the Bradfield Cup, when he was best for bull and progeny over all breeds in England and Wales, in 1947. It has been ...

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... a month to come this England will be a Marble Arch tub-thumpers' pitch. Bigger newspapers, and proportional representa tion for party persuaders on the Buzz Box-- non-stop. The public has to be educated if it is to make proper use of its right and duty ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2117 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs