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Sylph and the Squid

... By A. Croxton Smith MRS. SOUTHWICK'S Hunston Kennels of smooth fox-terriers are situated in that bracing little town, Hunstanton, on the Wash, which seems an ideal place for dogs. The stimulating dry air and miles of firm sand and dunes are all conducive to their well-being. One would not expect any strange misadventure to occur there, yet recently an incident happened as unusual as it was ...

Arthur Danahar-- Boxer and Fighter

... ARTHUR DANAHAR has been fighting professionally less than a year. With one accord experts declare that the country's amateurs have produced no such gifted light-weight since Matt Wells and that indeed is a wonderful testimony to his prowess. For Wells, having set up as a whole-time pugilist, defeated Freddie Welsh, who had won a place among the world-beaters. Danahar was holder of the A.B.A. ...

Harlequins

... THE , who are now probably the best-known Rugby club in the country, are the original Hampstead Football Club, which was founded by William Titchener in the autumn of 1866. It had a comparatively unhappy start, for William Alford, an original supporter of Titchener, was unable to agree with him, and, together with several Hampstead members, broke away from the Hamnstead club to start another ...

ROUNDING CAPE HORN

... Rounding Cape Horn A New and Remarkable Series of Pictures Taken On One of tbe Rare Occasions When the Dread Point Can Be Clearly Viewed From the Sea I AFTER TURNING THE CORNER and the ship is about to run into the calm waters of the south Atlantic, the camera gains a last glimpse of the Horn, which is seen away to the left just behind the jagged outline of Deceit Rocks On right 57 deg. SOUTH ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 271 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALLAN RAMSAY AND RAEBURN: SCOTLAND'S PROLIFIC PORTRAITISTS

... ALLAN RAMSAY AND RAEBURN SCOTLAND'S PROLIFIC PORTRAITISTS M Kb. YOUNG A fine example of the work of Allan Ramsay (1713-1784;, whose magnificent portraits have been given a room to themselves at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Scottish Art. Ramsay was one of the most prolific painters of his time and, in the opinion of Walpole, he exceeded Reynolds as a portrayer of women. Ramsay was a member ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 488 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MICHAEL FARADAY LECTURES AGAIN TO THE CHILDREN: Professor Kendall's Impersonation at the Royal Institution

... MICHAEL FARADAY LECTURES AGAIN TO THE CHILDREN Professor Kendall's Impersonation at the Royal Institution THE MIXTURE IS HIGHLY EXPLOSIVE, I WILL NOW TICKLE IT WITH A FEATHER AND SEND IT OFF, said Professor James Kendall, Edinburgh University Professor of Chemistry, in the course of the second of his six Christmas Lectures for Children at the Royal Institution. He was enthusiastically ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 329 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

WINTER SPORT ON EUROPE'S ROOF: A Party of Skiers from Wengen and Scheidegg Making an Excursion to the Jungfraujoch

... Winter Sport on Europe's Roof A Party of Skiers from Wengen and Scheidegg Making an Excursion to the Jungfraujoch Snow is piled high in the streets of St. Moriiz, while round Adelboden. Andermatt, Davos, Grindelwald, Murren, Villars, Wengen, Zermatt, and most of the other big resorts ski-ing conditions are excellent, so it is little wonder that each day sees fresh departures from London and ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 170 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... CTISBML, 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, January 4, 1939. 1939. THE YEAR OF FATE? --What is it to bring us? Has the long snow and frost killed, as we hope they have killed in the soil, some of the germs and pests that poisoned our lives last year? Has the kindly spirit of Christmas done anything to turn the hearts of men from the bitter insults and recriminations between nations ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2903 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

HEADLINED ABROAD

... Headlined EGYPT'S NEW PRINCESS MAKES HER BOW: Princess Ferial, six-weeks-old daughter of King Farouk and Queen Farida, pictured in the arms of her English nurse, Miss Winifred Johnson, when last week she v.- as shown to the Cairo crowds for the first time. Princess Ferial is not the heir-presumptive, as by a decree issued in 1922 by the late King Fuad the succession to the Egyptian throne was ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 462 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

COMBATING THE FLOOD MENACE in FENLAND: Strengthening the Dykes After the Great Thaw: Roads Blocked in Kent as ..

... COMBATING THE FLOOD MENACE in FENLAND Strengthening the Dykes After the Great Thaw Roads Blocked in Kent as the Medway Rises WORKING AGAINST TIME Men building up a dyke at Welney, Norfolk, where strenuous measures were taken last week to prevent a recurrence of the fen country floods. _ r- L Low-lying parts of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire were actu ally inundated just after Christmas and it ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 372 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ALL EYES ON LIMA And the Pan-American Conference

... SECRETARY OF STATE CORDELL HULL, leader of the U.S. delegation to the Eighth Pan American Conference, being greeted by Senora Benavides, wife of President Benavides of Peru (second from right), at a reception held at the Torre-Tagle Palace, Lima. The conference began in the second week in December and has very largely resolved itself into a battle of wits between those who would have the ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GERMAN JEWISH REFUGEES REACH PALESTINE

... _ Tnm ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW LIFE: Young German Jews on board the liner Galilea in which they journeyed recently from Trieste to Tel Aviv, Palestine, after receiving intimation that arrangements had been made for them to live in the Holy Land under the adoption scheme by which it is hoped that some six thousand refugees will eventually be accommodated THE NEW PORT OF TEL AVIV where several ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs