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THE GLORY OF DENMARK: A Magnificent Pictorial Survey

... (Stanley Paul. 16s.). as the title suggests, does not lack fireworks, and Constantine makes a violent attack on those in the West Indies who are still allowing racial discrimination to spoil the game in the islands THE HORSEMAN'S YEAR (Collins. 10s. 6d.) is ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

Books

... replied Naw, Sah I've got a shilling, seems to sum up the native philosophy. This is an admirable intro duction to the West Indies, from Butlin's Grand Bahama to Trinidad, because it mirrors economic conditions and the life of the people as well as pleasure ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

BEDELL SMITH'S MOSCOW MISSION: The Record of His Embassy and of Intransigence Behind the Iron Curtain

... that the time had come for a move. After a sickening crossing they arrived at the little island of Grenada, in the British West Indies, and there they found their bungalow and moved into it after defeating the army of cock roaches that was in possession. ...

Published: Saturday 13 May 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1585 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... did not succeed in being really convincing. In Bal Creole viewers were transported to a waterside cafe somewhere in the West Indies. Here we see the Steel Band in full blast. Most of the instruments hence the name -are made of old tin cans. OUR CRITIC'S ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1025 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... later superseded by the cathode-ray tube, it nevertheless pointed the way to universal television. Crown Copyright. The West Indies faced the Fourth Test Match last Saturday at the Oval in the comfortable position of having won two of three matches. The ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 824 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Books

... even while enjoying it, will wish they could get their hands on Shireen's novel of Jamaica round about 1700 instead? A WEST INDIES island affords scope for much colour-problem conflict in Phyllis Bottome's Under the Skin (Faber, 10s. 6d.). Her Lucy ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2357 | Page: 88 | Tags: Review 

Books

... Palos to San Salvador, by way of the Canaries, with two companions. Storms lashed but could not halt them. They made the West Indies, where Mr. Mielche descended m a diving bell of his own designing to the palace of the Mermaid Queen a fairy forest, a ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1398 | Page: 86 | Tags: Review 

Fun In Futility

... And so to Africa and the almost incredible confusion of the groundnuts scheme, and then to the Argentine, then to the West Indies, and last of all to Korea. His book ends with the arrival of the British contingent on this troubled peninsula, and a d ...

Published: Wednesday 13 December 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1517 | Page: 51 | Tags: Review 

FORTUNE'S FINGER: TEN DAYS OF CHRISTMAS; A MAN'S LIFE; THE ANATOMY OF VILLAINY; THE POACHER'S HANDBOOK

... holding up her incidents for passages of stagnant description, Miss Bottome can, in a few lines, whisk us to Bournemouth, the West Indies, Hull, a West of England vicarage, a Trans atlantic liner, Cornwall, and pre-war Vienna. IT is not easy for a novelist to ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1578 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review 

Priestley's Glorious Rag

... but had a much more curious origin, for his grandmother was the last Empress of China, and he had been brought up in the West Indies for all that, he was very beautiful, and had golden hair. He was thus a stranger to England, and could gaze at the ecce ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1863 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF

... and could remember Waterloo, while his father, in turn, was born in 1780. Sir Pelham tells of his early boyhood in the West Indies, his return to England, and failure to gain a scholarship to Winchester. We should have tested you at the nets and not with ...

Published: Wednesday 29 August 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1459 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review