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Standing By..

... Minister's inside, which is far more interesting than any rowing Blue's. Toying with his cutlery and fixing us with a calculating eye, he assured us that Dr. Johnson was right. The life of a rowing-man is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1091 | Page: 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

Winter Starlight

... Continued on page 66) You were with him when he died, Jamie, she said brokenly, using the pet name always used by his brother. You were happy in that. Some of us, who loved him as well, and with all the love in our hearts to give, were not able to ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3269 | Page: 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

BRIGHTON

... still used by the junior fifteens. The club returned to the C ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 465 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

at the theatre: Will Any Gentleman? (Strand)

... stage personality; and Mr. Vernon Sylvaine has not only found this situation (which must have been lying about begging to be used for twenty years or more) but he has developed it as neatly as could be wished. Naturally in the first eager grip of the lusty ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 855 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

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To Rome In A Bubble

... massive thrust generated. I had flown before in a transport aircraft adapted to use jets; but this was the first time I had been in the fully fashioned article the world's first jet air-liner. I had never before travelled so fast-- at one time we touched ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1296 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By

... once rebuked us for our ignoble handwriting, which is typically carnivorous and reveals brutality, low cunning, and lust in equal measure. And that, chicks, was how we met your dear Grandmamma, Fifi. Warning You can't get a decent cup of tea in Bogota ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1203 | Page: 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

SUBMARINE SALVAGE and SUBMARINE RESCUE: From the Thetis Disaster of 1939 to the Sinking of Truculent in 1950

... destroy ships of the British Fleet off the New England coast by this means. A quarter of a century later another American, Robert Fulton, produced a submarine which he suggested to Napoleon should be used as a secret weapon against Nelson's fleet. Napoleon ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1761 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Rover Turbine: Oliver Stewart

... disappear. There are reproductions of some fine paintings by Roy Nockolds in this book. Finally, let us not forget that Royce was an advocate of the use of the metric system of weights and measures the only sensible system. Motoring: ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1181 | Page: 36 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Solo Rumba

... favours Cam bridge, with their galaxy of batsmen Dewes and Doggart, who have already played for England, Sheppard and May, who more than probably will play for England soon. In Warr, too, Cambridge have an opening bowler who did much last August to help Middlesex ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 794 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Auld Alliance

... Swansea business man, on reaching home after a narrow victory over England, found a strange wig in his overcoat pocket. So, to Edinburgh, fairest and most civilised City of the World where the ghost of Johnnie Knox still preaches sermons outside the pubs ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 778 | Page: 33 | Tags: Illustrations 

Healthy Bad Temper

... British Character. And it is there. Glory be,. Mr. Gorer has not failed us. It could be said, without too much exaggeration, he remarks, that the fear of strangers lost England its Asiatic empire. rr^HE argument goes thuswise The English suffer from ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1094 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations