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ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL

... sojourn at Ealing the club moved to its present grounc at Copse Hill, Wimbledon, when it was re-formed. The Inter-Hospitals Cup was first competed for in 1875, and St. Gc rge's had the honour of appearing in the first Final, when Guy's, who have so lten ...

Published: Wednesday 15 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 452 | Page: 48 | Tags: Photographs 

LOTUS Veldtschoen

... in long rough walks in England and in 1 9 3 1 they bore me for 16 days across the mountain paths of the Bernese Obcrland. They have been in use ever since. j Designed and made to master every vagary of climate. Famous the world over for their long and ...

Wanderer in Australia

... was Austral best Test batsman in England two years ago; ni less, cheeky, tough, brilliant. He's a reportei the moment, among some dozen other plans. no more Tests for him. Many will be sorry; ru I fancy, the England bowlers. It wa ining when Freddy Brown ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1136 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

PRINCE ALBERT TO HERBERT MORRISON: THE NEW AUDITORIUM RAPIDLY TAKES SHAPE AT THE OLD VIC: Throughout 1950 work ..

... Wars and revolutions have made some of us apathetic and cynical and most of us muddle-minded. Too much restriction and legislation have taken the fine edge off our native initiative and individuality. Some of us are almost too patient under restriction ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1478 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WEEK'S SOCIAL JOURNAL: NEW YORK

... unfortunately hit one obstacle, then Mr. White and Nizefella hit two, so that our team finished third to the U.S. and the Mexican teams. The victorious U.S. team fully deserved their triumph. They are a splendid example of hard work and training. Gen. Alfred ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1927 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

TED KAVANAGH

... have done more for the world than fit athletes, and he trots out three examples Thomas Aquinas, G. K. Chesterton, and Dr. Johnson, all of whom he admires as thinkers. Not that Kavanagh, fat or just plump, hopes to better the world. He is satisfied if, ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

Soldier's Lot

... toured the villages and towns of England with news of the victories of Salamanca, Vittoria and Waterloo. In the flush of success they were popular as no British soldiers had been before and none was again until the first World War. But after Waterloo, the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1256 | Page: 77 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... For what the sick world needs to-day is not so much freedom of speech as educa tion in taste and a daily ration of truth and an honourable discrimination in reporting. These, under those con ditions, the printer and the publisher, using the writer's words ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2039 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Mr. X of Melbourne

... on a deserted May evening. There it was, at the Adelaide Oval, that Denis Compton made two centuries for England four years ago, and Don Bradman used to pay Tiger Bill O'Reilly's bowling the com pliment of care and where, a few days ago, I saw the freest ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1078 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Hats Were Wonderful

... Governor of Victoria. I am not. That office is held with distinction by R. A. D. Brooks, once a batsman of just about England class, who used to more than adorn the R.N. and R.M. team at Lord's in their annual match with the Army (Band if Possible). I first ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 992 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

CHILDREN'S BOOKSHELF

... Corps. Two books about two very different sports are Captain of England, by Billy Wright (Stanley Paul 9s. 6d.), a straightforward auto biography by the youngest footballer to lead England's team and The Pony Club Annual, published by the Naldrett Press ...

Published: Wednesday 22 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1055 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs