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The Barbican Cup in its New Setting

... The Barbican Cup in its New Setting By H. Edwards Clarke THE wisdom of the decision to stage the Barbican Cup this year, not at Druid's Lodge but in the East of England Club's Lincolnshire country, was received in some quarters, I know full well, not ...

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO AND WE APPLAUD

... ar-old Czech ice star, Aja Vrzanova, twice World's Figure Skating Champion, has obtained per mission from the Home Office to remain in England. The rest of the Czechoslovak team, which competed in the World Championships at Wembley recently, has flown ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 363 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

9th Lancer Exploits

... was killed fighting with it in World War One, the record ought to count. Francis Grenfell might have won that same Kadir Cup, but the luck went to his twin Rivy Grenfell came down to Cal cutta shortly after th't Kadir Cup, and, when he strolled into breakfast ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1446 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... like this Francis Bacon was born in England or Scotland and was a lawyer or something. No longer would schoolboys approach a history exam with misgivings. This system breaks the fetters and liberates the mind. But let us proceed with the Ancestor of Capri ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1570 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

Aquiline Hubbub

... Warner, who, bald from his student days at Oxford, went on and captained England to victory over the well-thatched Antipodeans. Think, also, of L. G. Brown, who led the England Rugger forwards with the minimum of hair on his learndd head. Why multiply ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

Brandy Is Not Cognac

... distillation was published in England and entitled he Vertuose Boke of Dis tyllacyon, for the help of and profit of surgeons, physicians, pothecaries and all manner of people. from thenceforward burnt wine or brandy was in general use in these islands, though ...

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... chance of racing. These races were the Jarvis Cup, for members of the D.H.O. over forty, won by Mr. Christopher Mackintosh, with Mrs. Paul Hepworth second and Mr. Rollo Hoare third. Then the Scalded Cats Cup, for [Continued on page 430) Mr. and Mrs. Carleton ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4309 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

SKETCH DATE-BOOK

... Lady Harewood, Benjamin Britten, the Hon. Gerald Lascelh I singer Joan Cross. FEB. 9. Altcar. Cold for first day of Waterloo Cup coursing meeting. Every bit of fur, I wool, leather available crammed on. Here Mr. and Mrs. Noel Hardy, I Miss Hardy. In front: ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1255 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... personalities of the flying world there included Lt.-Cdr. Jeffrey Quill, Mr. J. N. Somers, last year's winner of the King's Cup Air Race, Mr. Colin and Lady Maureen Cooper, and the band leader Mr. Frank Weir, who took part in the King's Cup Air Race in 1949. Wearing ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3278 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

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Rose-petal Talk

... (Scoreboard) HE is a dreamer: let us leave him;-- pass. Thus, in our rough island translation, spoke Julius Cæsar, when the Sooth sayer bade him beware the Ides of March; although, as the worst wicketkeeper in the world, Osric E. Jugg, pointed out over ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1049 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs