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Time For Romance: J. H. B. Peel suggests some novels for your holiday reading. Some romances of the past ..

... can scarcely be set below dish washing. For all this, summer brings holidays when most of us can find time for a deck chair and book, but what to read? Few of us wish to stew for ever in the tepid brew of popular novels, nor especially on holiday to be ...

Published: Tuesday 01 August 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 817 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

Saddest Literary Tragedy

... to visit Trevin Towers the once famous home of James John Hissey who used to write and publish enchanting books of his yearly travels throughout England—A Leisurely Tour of England,' 'The Charm of the Road,' 'Over Fen and Wold.' Who reads them nowadays ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1950
Newspaper: Richmond Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1056 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

ARE ALL SET FOR • Champions of the Football League for two suc- CHAMPION cessive seasons, Portsmouth, the Royal ..

... it was in those days. Form has evened up FLEWIN captain. Manager and players at Fratton are intrigued by the plan for a World Cup of League champions. The idea is for the champion clubs of fourteen countries to comp e t e in Rio de Janeiro next summer ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 756 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Young Norman Tyler's parents wanted their son to win fame through his hands. They sent him to a school of ..

... (Wednesday) he sails from England on a fourweeks' dancing tour of Denmark. With him will go his partner---slim. dark-haired Miss Maisie Walker of Chiswick. Maisie. who is 24, has been (lancing with Norman for a year. and holds the 7947 World and European amateur ...

Published: Tuesday 29 August 1950
Newspaper: Lewisham Borough News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Notebook

... in the ditch before they got over the shock seeing two decks. The busmen are tired of being twitted about England's football fiasco the World Competition: they have challenged Swedish friends a match their next stopping place. metres champion. RAP fighter ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Transvaal Belles

... Nineties, carries forward through the reigns of four Kings of England, even though one of them took more interest in fun between the flags than he did in racing on the flat, till, finally, it lands us with Mr. Winston Churchill and Colonist II., which horse ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1164 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

SUNFLOWERS IN HAMPSHIRE: AND OTHER PICTURES OF THE HOME NEWS

... SUNFLOWER CROP IN HAMPSHIRE The seeds are grown for their oil content, which can be used for cooking and in the making of margarine. The residue, after crushing, is used for cattle-cake. Sunflowers are being grown extensively in Tanganyika, where the Overseas ...

Published: Saturday 12 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 847 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

By TOM PHILLIPS

... JOHN THOMPSON, in the season which opens tomorrow. His reports for many seasons, followed by his visits to Brazil for the World Cup and the Arsenal tour, have made him Britain's lead.ng Soccer writer. He will cover all the events and, in addition, Soccer ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 300 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The voice of the consunr be mote effectively heard

... necessary the Labour Government will use its existing power to take over concerns which fail the nation. Development councils will be set up for an Increasing number of private industries, and necessary compulsion will be used where employers refuse to cooperate ...

Published: Monday 21 August 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 429 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PRIORITY FOR OUR OWN MEN AS SHOP TENANTS

... the authentic confidential facts of the world situation that can justify expression of such views, and we have been told officially that while the political world situation is indeed grave and serious. lo world major was is anticipated at this time. ...

The Big Swim

... women) have covered the distance three of the men (Temme and Blower of England, Hassan el Rehim of Egypt) having swum the Straits each way. Experience has shown that the France- England course is the easier, for twenty- l seven of the swims have been in ...

Published: Tuesday 01 August 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1159 | Page: 72 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... for reasons in writing did strike one as typically Attletic. England in Danger. Forty years ago an American visiting our island saw. on the posters the legends England in danger, England's fearful task. He knew that we had a little-war- on somewhere ...

Published: Saturday 26 August 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1919 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs