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WIMBLEDON 1950: DESPITE THE BOOM IN PROFESSIONALISM, THE GREAT TOURNAMENT HAS LOST NOTHING IN GLAMOUR

... I-- The lure of professionalism has certainly removed a host of great names from the world of amateur lawn tennis, but Wimbledon has not lost its glamour, and this year's tournament was, if anything, more international in flavour than any of its pr ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 584 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

Cricket Caravan

... Australian Test cricketer who finds Tests such a trial. These two visited England in summer, 1945, as members of that Australian Services team which came as a boon and a blessing to a world that had forgotten what real cricket looked like. Dick Whitington was ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1039 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

The Penfold 1,600 Gns. Tournament

... former course was used for the qualifying rounds only, for 36 holes of qualifying was required from a big field to find the necessary thirty- two players of both sexes to compete in the match-play finals. The medium men's tees were used by all the players ...

Modernising a XVIth-Century Farmhouse

... Guy Morgan bought Lower House Farm, Fernhurst, in 1938, he acquired 230-odd acres of some of the most beautiful country in England. Situated fairly high up on the southern slopes of Blackdown, the famous 1,000-ft.- high feature of north-west Sussex, the ...

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A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... carnival of sport in a Munich atmosphere, Just as France is used to meeting a world crisis without a Government. It almost appears that that carnival spirit of unreality and lazy hope leads us to our Munichs. Most international situa tions are obscure ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2017 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court news

... Mrs. Luther Reid of the U.S. Embassy, M. and Mme. Luc of the French Embassy, the British Wightman Cup captain, Mrs. Shepherd Barron, and Mrs. R. A. Buck, the American Wightman Cup captain, Mr. Leslie Godfree, a former Davis Cup player, and Mrs. Godfree ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3761 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Test of a Lifetime

... tests the whole car, lighting and other equipment included, and that it tests it in a manner which accords with ordinary road use. Le Mans packs into twenty-four ' ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1240 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs