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NITWITS OF THE WORLD, UNITE

... cent, of the nitwits of the world united behind us Why, indeed, if the nitwits are united, if they are, in fact, nitwits But what if they aren't I cannot speak for other countries, but I don't believe Hollywood knows its England very well. In the course ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 695 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

THE DRAMA OF THE COMMONPLACE: New Novels of Many Kinds and Set in Many Parts of the World Include an Excellent ..

... hands of the aficionados and go to England for an indefinite stay. In other words, to find a little peace and quiet. His mother had been a servant in the house of an Englishwoman with a Spanish husband, and England had always appeared to him in the most ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2166 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

INDIA REMEMBERED: A World of Beauty and Danger; Authors on the Land; Prelates and Ladies; A Caribbean Saga and ..

... Ohio at the beginning of the Second World War. He lived there until his death last month and farmed there and made many experiments in the rehabilitation of worn-out soil. In his new volume of autobiography he tells us something of the pleasures and miseries ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1621 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

PRODIGY OF BROADWAY: The Career of Orson Welles

... our coast. Professor Hardy has grasped the problem in a new and exciting way, helping us to discern the whole pattern of life which dominates two-thirds of the world's surface. ...

Published: Saturday 10 November 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 806 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

COFFEE BAR AND TAVERN CULTURE: New Books on Soft and Strong Drink

... original Vision of England series have been out of print for some years. Now they have been revised and enlarged and are published together in a single volume entitled SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND: KENT-- ESSEX (Elek. 21s.) in a new Vision of England Scries. ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

DANGERS OF THE RING

... woman ever to have sailed from England to America alone. VOYAGE IN A BARQUENTINE (Hart-Davis. 9s. 6d.), which was first published four years ago, is the record of a voyage in a 300-ft. sailing-ship from St. Malo around the world and back to Falmouth. Mr. Peter ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1526 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review 

POETESS OF THE OCEANS

... We are in, not out of, luck when they act on us. It was in this sense that an English critic spoke of Rachel Carson's THE SEA AROUND US (Staples Press 12s. 6 d.) as the book that is fascinating the world. This is the second appearance of this masterpiece ...

Published: Wednesday 04 January 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1479 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

A NEW TRICK OR A DOOR IN THE WALL?

... a 30-minute piece, made in England from H. G. Wells' short story The Door in the Wall. But the American inventor, Glenn Alvey, has since been approached by several major companies, who are interested in his technique for use in feature films. It seems ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 722 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Mr. Hamish Gleave,

... hard-working, ordinary citizen he settles into. Ordinary of his kind. He is obsessed with the rottenness of England, the danger of American influence in world affairs. He is also and this makes some of the events hard to swallow very dense about the kind Russians ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 339 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

ARCTIC SPRING: An Island in Canada's Far North

... individual endeavour of the new celestial world we are in process of conquering. Mr. Mallan is a member of the British Interplanetary Society and of the American Rocket Society, and he is in a position to take us behind the scenes during some of the most ...

Published: Saturday 13 October 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 768 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A HEROINE'S STORY: The Amazing Wartime Exploits of Nancy Wake; The Life of Gordon Selfridge; A Great Composer ..

... saccharine. The scene is England from the year of Victoria's accession to the last war, and Miss Meredith should be congratulated on the way in which she keeps the continuity of her story and the pace of its interest. The World of Books-- HORSEWOMAN AND ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1620 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE: Experiences from the Arctic Circle to South America; and some New Novels set in a Variety ..

... had from her climbs and her ski-ing. That so few of us could do as much shouldn't deter us from enjoying an armchair version of her adventures. THE LAST KINGS OF THULE (Allen and Unwin. 21s.) takes us even further afield with M. Jean Malaurie's account ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1520 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review