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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE NURSED BY THESE?

... WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO BE NURSED BY THESE J Left Brown-eyed blonde BETTY HALL, daughter of the Mayor of Monett. Left Stage girl GLORIA ANDERSON, ivho has appeared in 44 Hellzapoppin and 44 Star and Garter Blonde, with hazel-green i eyes VIRGINIA MAYO, k from St. Louis Mo. Left Sun-kissed ALMA CARROLL, Los Angeles born and bred, a former model. Light-brown of hair, with blue eyes BETTYE ALEXANDER ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 148 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GOLDWYN GIRLS AS U.S. ARMY NURSES--OFF DUTY!

... GOLDWYN GIRLS AS U.S. ARMY ^^NURSES-- OFF DUTY! Reddish blonde with hazel- blue eyes LORRAINE MILLER, from Virginia. Right Green-eyed blonde DOROTHY GARNER, former newspaper reporter and cigarette girl. Right Brown-eyed SHELBY PAYNE, former Holmby Col- lege graduate. Blue-eyed blonde JUNE LANG a girl ivith dancing and screen experience Brown-haired blue-eyed ELLEN HALL, from Los Angeles. I ...

'Celanese' TRADE MARK

... ;A::>:; *m The simplification of wartime Lingerie in Celanese pin-points attention on the beauty of the fabric itself. That is why Lingerie in 'Celanese' has triumphed over present- day restrictions it is i still lovely and ex cellent Coupon -value. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 40 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Photographs 

CLOSE SUPPORT by the NAVY: On the Channel Crossing and Off the Beaches

... On right The bombarding force sailed with 95,365 rounds of ammuni tion from 16 in. to 4 in. It was expected that something in the nature of 16,000 tons of ammunition would be expended in the first few days of the assault. Although the expenditure of so heavy a weight proved unnecessary, the Allied Navies, in two days, carried out the most persistent and heaviest bom bardment in Naval history. ...

A WAR NEWSLETTER--No. 249

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 249 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i The Rest Cure-- I never experienced the Edwardian rest cure. It was the fashionable remedy for too much nice, expensive fun in the 1900's. I was too young and too humble for any but the crumbs of fun. But now again the old cure is fashionable among middle-aged folk, who have had too much nice, clean, concentrated wartime fun. The doctor ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1820 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

OPERATION STRANGLE: The Story of the Gigantic Air Offensive Against the Nazi Supply Lines in Italy

... Behind the new Allied drive in Italy lies the story of Operation Strangle-- the gigantic air offensive which choked off supplies and reinforcements to Nazi troops on the fighting fronts. This campaign, launched approximately two months before the ground offensive got under way, May 11, 1944, accurately and systematically drew a noose by bomb and machine-gun and cannon fire around the entire ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1824 | Page: Page 5, 6, 7 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... - NAIK NAND SINGH, 11th Sikhs, won his V.C. in Burma. A heavily armed Japanese platoon crept into a position covering the main Maungdaw-Buthidaung road, digging fox-holes and trenches on the hillside. Nand Singh, commanding platoon leading section, led his men up a very steep ridge under heavy fire. Though wounded in thigh, face and shoulder, he took the first trench with the bayonet by ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 635 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Photographs 

FIRE-FIGHTING FIT

... FIRE- FIGHTING FIT. T ableau by National Fire Service instructors. Grand Finale the complete team of N.F.S. instructors Network practice one of the exercises for girl instructors of the N.F.S. Tough work A team of N.F.S. girl* f their training as P.T. instructors. Limbering up N.F.S. girls prepare for more strenuous exercise. Perfect timing and balance N.F.S. quali fied instructors. Leapfrog ...

MARLENE SAWN IN TWO BY ORSON WELLES!

... ORSON WELLES and MARLENE DIETRICH are guest stars appearing as themselves in 44 Follow the Boys. They appear in Orson Welles's Mercury Wonder Show. Here a feat of 44 black magic from Orson Welles' s wonder show MARLENE DIETRICH is conjured up and appears first as a silhouette in a frame. Then she steps out and becomes human. 44 No deception, ladies and gentlemen Magician ORSON WELLES ...

Young Farmers in Four Counties: Berkshire

... Young Farmers in Four Counties Berkshire THESE happy young people are members of Young Farmers' Clubs in Berkshire. On succeeding pages are pic tures illustrating Y.F.C. acti vities in three other counties. The Y.F.C. movement con tinues to make immense strides and is supported by some of the most infiueptial agricul turists in the country. Young farmers, choosing in wartime to devote their ...

A Calf-Rearing Farm in Renfrewshire

... ALTHOUGH Floors Farm, Eaglesham (near Glasgow), gained a wide notoriety when Hess landed on it in 1941, it is one which has a special interest in agricultural matters. Calf-rearing here is the main occupation, and ingenious methods in feeding, cleanliness, and especially in segregation, might well be fol lowed profitably on many other farms. The attested herd of Ayrshires usually number about ...

All the Trouble on the Left

... THE Bedfordshire Golf Club at Bidden ham organised a successful match for the Red Cross and St. John Fund on their course just 1 from the centre of Bedford town, a most convenient distance in these days of transport restrictions. Missingword Many Service men and women, including our Dominion and American friends, followed the play on a lovely afternoon for golf dull, with a nice breeze blowing ...