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WINSTON CHURCHILL

... told, know of Winston Churchill's background his early days, and his kaleidoscopic career in the years leading up to the Second World War. The life-story of winston chur- chill makes fascinating reading. As a tribute to him in his 80th year, THE ILLUSTRATED ...

Published: Wednesday 05 May 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 316 | Page: 55 | Tags: Illustrations 

WINSTON CHURCHILL

... told, know of Winston Churchill's background his early days, and his kaleidoscopic career in the years leading up to the Second World War. The life-story of winston Chur chill makes fascinating reading. As a tribute to him in his 80th year, THE ILLUSTRATED ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 344 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

PIN-UPISM

... back where we started. Because the pin-up girl, whether you like her or not, is here to stay. jkL 4 The Thirties 5 The Second World War jf w 6 Miss 1955 ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1086 | Page: 45 | Tags: Illustrations 

PETER CHEYNEY

... yearning for adventure. I think soldiering is my real profession, he said a view reinforced by his activities in the Second World War, when he commanded the only armoured unit in the Home Guard. From 1919 to 1926 he published songs, poems and produced ...

Published: Wednesday 13 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1171 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

ON CHOOSING WINE

... numbers of them acquired for it a taste which they brought back with them when they returned. Rise and Fall During the Second World War, wine in England became scarcer and scarcer. Stocks held by wine merchants and shippers dwindled rapidly, and after the ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1333 | Page: 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

MARRIAGE IS A LOTTERY: Day-dreaming in her kiosk, Madame Blaise wonders which of her elderly admirers will win ..

... lottery ticket by CELIA IRVING MADAME HENRIETTE BLAISE, who has the tobacco concession in La Tournan, is a widow from the Second World War. No breath of scandal has touched her and no hint of a romance has been asso ciated with her, which is surprising because ...

Published: Wednesday 16 January 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1949 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... heroine in the Provincial Lady series she is often in a position to indulge this pleasure, and never more so than when the second world war comes, and she hastens off to London to offer her services to her country. The fact that nobody seems to want them only ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2239 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

... by Richard Church By that odd series of chances which makes life some times more incredible than fiction, not even the Second World War had broken the long chain of Christmas reunions. When John married in 1946 and settled in London, as a hospital bursar ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2315 | Page: 45 | Tags: Illustrations