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CHEVALIER MARLENE

... CHEVALIER MARLENE Photographed by Angus McBcan. During the war Marlene Dietrich entertained thousands of French troops in North Africa. Recently her war work was given official recognition at the French Embassy in Washington. She was made a Chevalier ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 67 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

MR. GUY PRINCE

... managing director of J. L. P. Lebegue and Co. Ltd., the well-known French wine shippers. Mr. Prince, who served in North Africa in World War II., is seen in his firm's cellars Underneath the Arches at London Bridge, where he holds his now internationally famous ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 91 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

INSTONIANS

... brothers Frank and Victor Hewitt, Sammy Walker, recip of sixteen caps, captain of the British touring side in South Africa before war; R. R. Chambers, R. H. Thompson and Desmond McKibbin, tl resent captain of the Instonians. The club is always been served ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 520 | Page: 73 | Tags: Photographs 

BRIGADIER SIR ROBERT ARUNDELL, K.C.M.G., O.B.E

... is a keen tennis player, but his main hobbies are gardening and agriculture, and having spent some years in Central Africa before the war, he is well-versed in tropical conditions. Lady Arundell shares these interests with enthusiasm, and to the lovely ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 611 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE STRANGE STORY OF JOSEPHINE BAKER

... spread this motto throughout the world. She spreads it by dancing and singing, and thus conquers France, Europe and Africa. When war breaks out, the fairy again appears. This time she says Josephine, you must fight and suffer to free the victims of hate ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1956
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1044 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

An Elephant Hunt in the Congo

... development of areas of East Africa since the war, and the conferring of the status of a city on Nairobi, which only fifty years ago was a small collection of huts in the Kenya bush, has led to many comparisons between life in Africa to-day and at the beginning ...

NEWS SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL

... treatment. On Saturday of last week the French Embassy in Rabat, Morocco, had been damaged by a mob shouting Free Ben Bella! AFRICA Civil war continued to threaten in Congo. The British Ambassador visited Mr. Tshombe, President of Katanga, in Elisabethville at ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1197 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

KENYA AS A FARMING COUNTRY

... KENYA AS A FARMING COUNTRY By Lindsay G. Troup DEVELOPMENTS in Central and East Africa since the war and particularly constitutional changes and proposed changes, have drawn considerable atten tion to this part of the world. In this article, the first ...

Talk around the Town

... statesman whose austere appearance never won him the public interest he might have achieved. It was in his reign in South Africa, after its war, that he nursed a school of bright young men, one of whom was the Mr. Geoffrey Dawson who twice became editor of The ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1359 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... d that even the Sahara was once a forest and that this famous desert, too, was man-made those of us who saw North Africa during the war, with the Sahara getting closer and closer to the sea, found it hard to realise that it was once the granary of the ...

LIFE WITH MALCOLM

... whole family, then Malcolm to India, then back to London. With the war, Malcolm's services with Intelligence kept him at first in England, then took him to France and Africa. After the war, he was posted to Washington Kitty and their daughter, Valerie, went ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2236 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE QUEEN MOTHER AT A GALA CONCERT: THE COUNTESS OF MARCH AND HER CHILDREN

... backgrounds, to see for themselves. Thus Rhodes, although a native of New Zealand, spent many months in various parts of Africa studying the war against the locusts; Kruger, likewise, lived in Tangier to obtain the knowledge and experience which he required for ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2878 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs