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Farming Round The Houses: Middlesex Deals With; The Odd Corners

... I Farming Round I The Houses Middlesex Deals With The Odd Corners MIDDLESEX has succeeded in doing a very difficult job of farming by putting an extra 10,000 acres of land under cultiva tion since war began. To a country county, this may not seem a vast achievement, but in a county so heavily built over, it means a farming increase of just one-third. There are no rolling plains to take over ...

JUBILANT MONSTERS OF MECHANISED WAR

... . The battleship, holding a bone in its front teeth, has seated robots for turrets an admiral for control lower, and a bird- like aeroplane about to take off from a gigantic hand. Right A bellowing fighter plane roars down with clenched fists on a grinning bomber. The shoulders represent engine cowlings and the eyes are pilots. Everyone who has followed the march of mechanised armies across ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Cartoons  Graphic 

SCRAPS OF PAPER

... . A Scrap of Paper had historic importance in 1914-- every scrap of paper now has material value for waste paper, cartons, letters, card board, cards and boxes are all essential for the war effort. They must be neither hoarded nor wasted. The £10,000 Prize Waste Paper Drive inaugurated by the Waste Paper Recovery Association for May, June and July will add further incentive to the energy with ...

Published: Wednesday 03 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 121 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Graphic 

CLOTHES

... A V p By Jean Bnrnnp Editor Women's Department A good suit, centrepiece of this page, is the centrepiece of most well-considered wardrobes. It-is durable, ever appro priate, versatile as the English weather. Among your clothes, it holds the place held in your affections by a dearly loved and reliable friend. Such a suit is photographed .here, with groups of accessories for different times and ...

Knitted Jacket, Coupon Saver

... Knitted .Jacket, Coupon Saver MATERIALS 9 oz. Copley Smith's 3-ply Excelsior Wool pair No. 10 needles 8 buttons tape to keep waist shaped if V liked 4 press studs. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 36 ins. length, 23 ins. sleeve seam, HH| 18 ins. TENSION 84 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. ^^B THE BACK Cast on 156 sts. Work the following patt. 1st row. B K. 1, p. 1 rep. from to end, ending p. 1 2nd row. B| As ...

DRESS:

... Ily Jean Burnup Editor Women's Department IF YOU WERE STARTING FROM SCRATCH you eoull SO all llic year round, for several years, in the clothes outlined below. A bis coat, wool dress, suit, cardisan, odd skirt, two blouses, two sweaters, a silk dress. Aud, if you chose colours wisely, watched personal grooming:. you would be well dressed in the new austere, clean-cut style of the day. \o ...

DRESS

... : By Jean Burnup Editor Women's Department 36 WHEN THE SHADOW' OF YOUR SERVICE SELF FADES FROM THE PICTURE. AXD VOli DECODE A TEMPORARY CIVII.l.V\, YOUR INTEREST IS IN CLOTHES THAT ARE FEMININE, DURABLE, CURRENT, YET i UNDATABLE. THE CLOTHES FEATURED ON THESE PAGES THIS MONTH EMBODY ALL THESE POINTS, AND ARE ALL FINE CHEQUE- BOOK AND COUPON VALUE. I. A must-have the little woollen frock. This ...

Diplomacy at Work: The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., at the Foreign Office

... Diplomacy at Work The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., at the Foreign Office As Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ince 1938, Sir Alexander Cadogan has played an important part in all decisions affecting British foreign policy in recent ears. In 1933 he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Sinister Plenipotentiary, and later Ambassador, at Pekin, nd succeeded ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Graphic

... The R.A.C. in Peace and War by Lionel Edwards If there isn't a gap, why they makes one Handley Cross (Surtees) ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 21 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Getting Married: The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings and Engagements Boddam-Whetham Lane Captain John Hayes Boddam-Whetham Queen's Westminsters, K.R.R.C. only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Boddam-Whetham, of 37, Crompton Court, S.H'., and Joan Margaret Lane, younger daughter of Major- General and Mrs. C. R. C. Lane, of Poona, Itidia, were married at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton Felicity Par doe Felicity ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 671 | Page: Page 25, 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Stage and Screen Personalities in Different Theatres

... Getting the Laughs in Fine and Dandy Three popular people to be seen in London soon are Douglas Byng, Leslie Henson and Stanley Hollotcay, who are now playing to Manchester audiences in Firth Shephard's new revue 44 Fine and Dandy. Leslie Henson and Stanley Holloway were previously together in 44 Up and Doing which had such a successful run at the SaviUe Theatre. In 44 Humpty Dumpty, ...

Published: Wednesday 22 April 1942
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 251 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs