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THE LONDON HOSPITAL

... -^the select few clubs of the early days of Rugby still in existence. The main event in Hospital Rugger is the Inter-Hospital Cup, inau urated in 1875, and London reached the final for the first time in 1881, when St. Barfs defeated them, but three years ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 420 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

... l figure in the top income group and, above all, the fact that he has never lost his predominant position in the film world a world where the competition is unceasing and without mercy. Must one then dismiss as non-existent Samuel Goldwyn the amiable ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1313 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Looking Ahead: Flying

... operations of World War II. Can it be supposed that the methods of air attack will be the same Or are we preparing for the war that is already over If the Germans were able to launch rockets against this country before the end of World War II., is it ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 978 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... less about international cricket. But cricket in England is in quite a healthy state. 1 find encouragement and hope tor our great national game and what a game it must be to havccomc through two world wars, austerities and social revolutions and to have ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1116 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

IONA RISES A NEW: The Restoration of the Famous Abbey

... due time, indeed. Bishop Aidan, the luminary of the north, came with his Columban monks to make I.indisfarne the Iona of England. In the ninth century Iona was made a bishopric, which was later in the province of Trondheim, Nor way at that time having ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 811 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... floating down the Thames it will be mine and beneath the waters will be me. But on the body there will be a note telling the world that you drove me to it. This moved the man of stone at long last. As if to assist in the plot, my former car) worn with age ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1637 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... from all over the world during the Festival weeks. {Continued on pafo 428) t' THE SCOTTISH CAPITAL The inauguration service in St. Giles' Cathedral, which opens the Festival, was extremely impressive. While visitors from all over the world took their places ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2842 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Portraits in Print: Being the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe. Mr. Gordon Beckles

... Princess May. Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, became, as the world knows, David; and, as he has recently made the world fully aware, our present Sovereign has been known in family circles as neither Albert, Frederick ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1458 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Portraits in Print: BeinĒµ the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe Mr. Gordon Beckles

... can remember the Eton-cropped, cigarette-smoking ones of the Charleston-dancing days, or the button- booted misses of before World War One. I have just been studying a pair of them (they usually move in pairs) on the Boulevard St. Michel. They are talking ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1840 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

ANTHONY QUAYLE

... with resistance groups. When he left the Army as a major, he felt he had material enough for a novel, and Eight Hours from England, a fictionalised story based on his Albanian experiences, was the result. He followed this up with On Such a Night, partly ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1456 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

Marcel Boussac's Luck: Personalities at the Doncaster Sales

... straight and waited until the psychological moment to deliver his challenge from behind. The unfortunate rider of Vieux Manoir used, so we thought, unnecessary pressure on his gallant mount at the point when he was travelling so easily that he could well ...

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... such a lovely home at Highgate she never goes away in the summer when resorts are crowded. She had just had one of the young U.S. tennis players from the Yale and Harvard teams staying with her, and no doubt he had thoroughly enjoyed the fine tennis courts ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1953 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs