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... 11 THE NEW RATION BOOKS ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT ANY DELAY WHATSOEVER. I B DRAWS DY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 18 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. I MY DEAR ROBERT-- The Conductor and Faith are married. At the last moment Faith developed Qualms, Doubts and Fears. First she said she wanted to be married in a Registry Office, and when the Conductor stoutly refused to be a party to such heathenish antics, she said she couldn't be married in our Church, because the face of a Cen turion in the East window always reminded her ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1234 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

Ford

... (iRp^S) (jRp^S) Happy days will be here again when junk and old clothes are merely playthings for children. Until then, back up the Salvage Drive in your locality to the limit. For salvage releases shipping, defeats the enemy's attempt to starve us of raw materials, makes up for our lost sources of supply and helps to equip our fighting men. So turn out your attics, search your cupboards from ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 111 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Nell Gwyn

... 'Hzimoiu) JxA cTitie QucUliu jP j; if Mum msm ngM|| T' ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 11 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHAMPION PLUGS

... vtPfNPA*lllTY lhe Forth Bridge, opened in 1890, took seven years to build and cost £3,600,060. It covers 145 acres and 51,000 tons of steel were used. Painting the bridge occupies a large staff for three years. It is over 1 J miles long, with towers 361 ft. high, and carries two railway tracks with footpaths each side. Though there are now bigger bridges, en gineers proclaim this traditionally ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 123 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Globaloney

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Globaloney. The coming air age is more threatening than ever. Mr. Wallace, Vice-President of the United States, has allowed his imagination to soar into new, rarefied realms for bird-men. An irrev erent female member of Congress has described his ideas as mere globaloney. We need a new Aristophanes to sharpen his wits, and ours, on the modern Cloud-cuckooland. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2501 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Advertisements

... Help your AUSTIN to help the Country FROM AUSTINS TO AUSTIN OWNERS Ration yourself to 30 M.P.h. AND DOUBLE THE LIFE OF YOUR TYRES Do you know that at 30 m.p.h. your tyres last twice as long as at 50 m.p.h. In your own, and in the Country's interests, it pays to keep c within the limit' even on the open road. If your work takes you over bad roads, reduce your speed still further. Running a tyre ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 149 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

I HOPE YOU WON'T READ THIS

... |P I HOPE YOU By HARRY HEARSON. PRESENTLY he will come through the clump of oak-trees on the ridge, and for a moment he will be silhouetted, like the stroke of a blunt pencil, against the deepening blue of the evening sky. That is why I am writing this on the table by the lattice window of my cottage, so that I can see when he is coming, for I must finish writing before he arrives. He will ...

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S COAT-OF-ARMS AND ITS MEANING

... WINSTON. CHURCHILL'S COAT-OF-ARMS AND ITS MEANING. WINSTON. CHURCHILL'S COAT-OF-ARMS AND ITS MEANING. THE ARMS OF THE RT. HON. WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER- CHURCHILL, P.C., C.H., M.P., Prime Minister of Great Britain, are Quarterly, first and fourth, CHURCHILL: Sable a lion rampant argent with Augmentation of honour on a Canton argent a Cross gules (The Cross of St. George). Second and third ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 504 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

BURBERRYS

... BURBERRY! BURRERRYS RANK aj STYLE Your commission is one of responsibility and authority and your equipment is no less important. Burberrys, famous for lii^b-cpuality tailor ing, is at your command. Y/eatherproofs, greatcoats and uniforms, for A.T.S. Oflicers, are made to meet the demands of military precision. Full particulars and prices sent on application Telephone Whitehall 3343. Please ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 71 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Tenth Legion

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP, Tenth Legion. This world war that we read so much about is not the only war that matters. There is another struggle which is truly a war to end war-- though it does not always succeed-- and which is waged unceasingly during times of peace by a comparatively small, but care fully selected, army-- a corps d'élite of about 60,000. They are very modern and up-to-date, ...

Published: Wednesday 16 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2679 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

MAMBA'S LAIR

... mambTTlair.' jji By RICHARD GRANT. JIM GRISWOLD inherited the farm in the Drakensberg foothills from his Uncle Arnold. Arnold had been found dead on the veldt a mile from his house in suspicious circumstances. He had gone out to shoot duiker; one barrel of his gun was discharged and the weapon lay across his body. The fatality might have been pre sumed accidental, but Arnold's money and watch ...