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Prestwick and the Open: Should the Course be Changed?

... Prestwick and the Open Should the Course be Changed? WHEN I played at Prestwick in the 1925 Open qualifying rounds, I was eighteen, and assistant at Rye. Cyril Tolley, who thought I was a promising player, entered me and took me up to Prestwick as his guest. I was not very experienced, as can be imagined, and went no further than the qualifying rounds. i tnink 1 took 02 at iroon ana 52 ...

BRITANNIA

... The Secret Agent's Wife by Olga L. Rosmanith Harry said formally, Sheila, this is Mr. Guise and this is Mr. Hendrikson. Gentlemen, Mrs. Warren my wife. They rose and bowed stiffly. Sit down again, please, she said. Don't mind me. I 've come back for a warmer coat and I 'm going right out again. I think not, said the dark, swarthy one. Adding, as he saw her look of swift anger, I mean I ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 935 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

Social Register

... ut a*. iMJMmmiJiS&mt.mb'zr i Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone Major-General the Earl of Athlone, is the neic Governor- General of Canada and he will leave with Princess Alice Countess of Athlone, shortly. In 1914 he teas about to take the same office when war broke out and he went on active service. The Earl of Athlone was a highly successful Gov ernor-General of South Africa during a ...

Puppies Need Careful Rearing

... By A. Croxton Smith PUPPIES, like kittens and most young things, have so many pleasing ways and look so delightful in their immaturity, that numbers of people are tempted to buy one rather than an older dog, some times without realising the trouble that is before them. It they have the time and patience they cannot go tar wrong in gratifying their inclination, but should they not be prepared ...

Who? Not Queen Victoria, Surely?

... Who Not Queen Victoria, Surely Anna Neagle is one of the few stars in Hollywood who can come and go as they like, without gawping fans on their heels. That 's for the plain reason that Californians don't yet know what she looks like, having only seen her draped and padded as Queen Victoria, austere and middle-aged as Nurse CavelL But her precious incognito is over as soon as Irene is shown. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 April 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 502 | Page: Page 15, 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SCIENCE BLUE-PRINTS: THE POST-WAR WORLD OF WONDERS

... BIUE-PRINTS SffiSS- C. PATRICK THOMPSON I THE scientists are busy-- devising new and more efficient ways of destroying life. Their problems are more complex than those of the first ingenious cave-and tree-dwellers, who found the solution to their problems by sharpening flints, fire-hardening pointed wood stakes, and devising the first slingshot appliance. For the brains have to reach out now ...

Hair Story

... .sOSitifc'* i--> 4 >.l- k I, II v W i ii i h' e I L c w i w It is doubtful if those who are born with naturally beautiful and healthy hair really know how lucky they are. Because of course they are lucky. Beautiful hair is so important that once you have it you are sitting pretty before you have even got around to the matter of skin and teeth and figure. Whatever else is the matter with you, ...

Food and Fuel Economy

... Slow combustion heating has been accepted now for a long time as the best and cheapest of modern methods, in fact a slow combustion cooker gives instant and rapid cooking service at any time of the day or night. Take the A.B. Cooker which we have illustrated. It is a solid fuel which incorporates the very latest scientific cooking developments and, at the same time, ensures day and night hot ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 391 | Page: Page 37 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... w itli Fluffy Yoke and 1 nits Materia/; ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 569 | Page: Page 51, 101 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

FASHIONS

... By JEAN BURNUP Editor Women's Department Ivondon designers, wisely marking time, give us an almost unchanged silhouette in the first Spring collections. We began this w^r dressing soberly, with caution, with eyes to the future, confining our frivolous inclinafions to hats, etceteras. It is still so. The mode stays practical. Day skirts, sixteen to seventeen inches from the ground, are, as ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 358 | Page: Page 53 | Tags: Photographs 

Peggy Sage

... Insist on a PEGGY SAGE SPECIALIST to do your manicure RECOGNIZE HER BY THIS BADGE There are ordinary manicures, and there are manicures given you by an expert hand stylist. Only en trust your hands to a specialist. Her deft flawless work is done according to the method, for she is a certified hand stylist. And she will tend your nails with exquisite products the Nail Polishes for instance ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 132 | Page: Page 80 | Tags: Photographs 

DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES

... YOUR WARTIME OFFERING TO will help to feed, clothe, house, educate and train the ivorld's largest family. THE WAR has burdened us with many additional expenses with a family of 11,250 of whom 8,250 are in the Homes and a further 3,000 partially supported, the future is fraught with difficulties. Money, more money, is our pressing need and special WARTIME GIFTS will be warmly appreciated. 4 A/ ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 104 | Page: Page 89 | Tags: Photographs