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A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 112

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 112== i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Complacency and Doubt. --It is abundantly clear that while a certain measure of cheerfulness (with its terrible implication of com placency) insists on breaking in before a third terrible winter of trial and privation and darkness closes in on Britain, a large measure of doubt is beginning to break in on the Nazis and Axis Powers. To ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2185 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

From the TWO ENDS of the RUSSIAN LINE: Special Drawings and Diagrams

... From the TWO ENDS of the RUSSIAN LINE A NIGHT LANDING OF RUSSIAN SABOTEURS ON THE FINNISH COAST, from the fortified islets which extend from Kronstadt towards Finland. The object of these determined men is to harry supply traffic on the roads along the Gulf of Finland Drawing by Wm. MacDowell ON THE ODESSA FRONT ON THE BLACK SEA An attack by a Russian petty officer on a battery of six Rumanian ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 677 | Page: Page 12, 13 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

TOBRUK has been HELD FOR OVER SIX MONTHS: How this Great Feat has been Accomplished and How the Stukas have ..

... TOBRUK has been HELD FOR OVER SIX MONTHS How this Great Feat has been Accomplished and How the Stukas have been Defied FOR over six months now Tobruk has been held by British and Impferial Forces against the Italians and the Germans. And to-day it is stronger than ever it was and this despite artillery bombardment and incessant dive-bombing attacks by Stukas. On April n the stronghold's ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 844 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - MARLENE DIETRICH, lor being a Lady Willins to risk those elegant legs in saving a child. B On the set of Lady is Willing MARLENE DIETRICH fractured an ankle and strained her back when she tripped over a toy engine, but managed to save from injury a seven-months-old baby which was in her arms at the time. She went to hospital and it was expected that her ankle would be in plaster for at ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 96 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MIXED BAG OF TOPICAL NEWS SELECTION OF THE WEEK BY CAMERA

... . These dolls dressed as an American Army and an American Red Cross nurse, will be sold for the Red Cross. They came to the Premier as a gift from Miss Marguerite L. Davis, of New York. MRS. RALPH WIGRAM, widow of Mr. Ralph Wigram, C.M.G., is engaged to Sir John Anderson, M.P., Lord President of the Council, formerly Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security. She is a daughter of the late ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 427 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

LEARNING THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY FLEDGLING WRENS AT A TRAINING DEPÔT

... LEARNING THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY: FLEDGLING WRENS AT A TRAINING DEPOT. The stately entrance to a Service life Portico of the new Training and Drafting depot for the W.R.N.S. Maps are studied in connection with the drafting of personnel. With the Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers' Mess in the foreground Probation ary Wrens at lunch in the general mess. Right A few moments of quiet ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 265 | Page: Page 16, 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MISS AMERICA, 1941--AND THE FIELD

... MISS AMERICA, 1941 --AND THE FIELD, Can yon pick the girl who won the title of Miss America, 1941 at the annual Atlantic City Beauty Contest She \s right there in the middle of the group, surrounded by the rest. W'ith so fair afield, the judges must have got headaches before making their choice Another study of nineteen-year-old MISS ROSELLA HANNON, with the trophy which she won with the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: Page 18 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIFTY YEARS OF A TOUGH MONEY-EMPEROR'S SELFISH LIFE CITIZEN KANE, WITH AUTHOR-DIRECTOR-PRODUCER WELLES AS STAR

... FIFTY YEARS OF A TOUGH MONEY-EMPEROR'S SELFISH LIFE: CITIZEN KANE, WITH AUTHOR-DIRECTOR- PRODUCER WELLES AS STAR. ORSON WELLES as Kane, with his first wife, Emily Norton (RUTH WARRICK). The money-emperor (ORSON WELLES) opens his political career with tremendous flourish. Kaneys closest friends and business associates Jedediah Leland (JOSEPH COTTEN) and Bernstein (EVERETT SLOANE; right). Kane ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: Page 20, 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

MOSS BROS & CO. LTD

... MOSS BROS j Naval, Military and R.A.F. Outfitters J MOSS BROS ''aval, Military and R.A.F. Outfitters J A way they have in the Navy 99 A gentleman who was one of our most respected civilian customers appeared on our jj^k threshold, trimly clad in blue and sold, and an nounced that he was a rough, tough, sea faring chap who'd stepped ashore to buy a bridge coat and look slippy about it. This ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 185 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Way of the War: Russians Mighty Pleased

... Russians Mighty Pleased By Foresight LORD BEAVERBROOK has always lived a full and active life. Years pass but his energy remains undiminished. Many find it astonishing. He's always managed to get near the centre of things, either in finance or politics, in newspapers or industry. In the last war we have his word for it that he was a power behind the scenes. In this war twenty odd years later ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2368 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

The Two Cambridgeshires: Newmarket and The Curragh

... The Two Cambridgeshires Newmarket and The Curragh This view of the field in the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket shows ApriUe Son leading, only to be overtaken by the consistent Rue de la Paix Capt. Moore, the King's racing manager, discussed events ivith Fred Darling at the Newmarket Sales. His Majesty's filly, Sun Chariot, who showed amazing speed when she won the Middle Park Stakes, is proving ...

Pictures in the Fire: His Majesty's Sceptre?

... -44 Vz* His Majesty's Sceptre By Sabretache IF it is conceded that Big Game is the best two-year-old colt of the year and Watling Street runs him to a short head at level weights (w.f.a.) in the Cham pagne Stakes at Newbury, where are we to place his Majesty's filly Sun Chariot, who beats Watling Street out of sight in the Middle Park Stakes at w.f.a.? It is true that Watling Street was late ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1941
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2011 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Photographs