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FIFTH WAR-TIME FOURTH AT ETON

... . Spectators lined up on the river bank to see the Procession of Boats go by. The School v. Eton Ramblers the cricket match in progress on Agar s Plough. Shorn of their decorative attire, but smart and impressive the Procession I of Boats at Fellows Eyot. After the Procession of Boats the Wet-Bobs singing and swinging along on shore to the strains of The Eton Boating Song THE programme of the ...

PHANTOM LADY --FILM CHASE FOR A LOST WITNESS

... . Ghastly suspicion Carol Richman (ELLA RAINES) has a hunch that Jack Marloic (FRANC HOT TONE) is the killer and tries to call the police. The Phantom Lady with the striking hat Scott Henderson (ALAN CURTIS) picks up a strange girl in a bar, and asks her to go to the theatre with him. She accepts. Carol Richman, convinced that Scott Henderson did not kill his wife, tries to get proof of his ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 221 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

ACTUAL BATTLE PICTURES FROM ITALY: Taken during the Present Big Offensive against Kesselring's Army

... THE FIFTH ARMY MAKES JUNCTION WITH THE BRIDGEHEAD FORCES After four months of attack, counter-attack and inevitable lulls, the Anzio forces at last broke out and joined up with the main body of the advancing Fifth Army. A British Reconnaissance Unit came out over the Pontine Marshes south of Littona, and met the advancing elements of an American Division about four miles south of the Mussolini ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 551 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FLYING PICTURES from ITALY: Special Sphere Drawings of Scenes Over the Battlefield: and the Latest Photographs ..

... The Piper Cub is an American-built aeroplane, with seats for two persons, of whom one is usually the observer, facing forward or aft as conditions demand. Its maximum speed is about 90 m.p.h., and it lands at the very low speed of 35 m.p.h. It has been used for a number of purposes over the fighting front in Italy, of which one is depicted in the drawing above. During the initial stages of the ...

A GREAT WORK for our OVERSEAS WARRIORS: What the War Hospitality Committee of the Empire Society does for the ..

... NO wonder that Admiral Sir William James went on the air the other night to launch an appeal for the Empire Society's War Hospitality Com mittee. This organisation devotes itself to providing hospitality for all the Empire troops which come to Great Britain and Ulster. And yet they were able to spend only £40,000 last year. By contrast, the American Red Cross organisation, which does a similar ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1812 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

DUNLOP

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Salute the Soldier

... SOCIAL functions, with Royalty present, ceased, as such, on September 3, 1939. Preoccupation with State or other duties affecting their subjects, has prevented the King and Queen from enjoying any but the briefest of days of relaxation. Their holiday at home in the grounds of Windsor Home Park was shared by a big Whitsuntide crowd, delighted to see the King in informal tweeds and the Queen and ...

Rapier on Racing: Fancied Candidates for the Derby and Oaks

... f^ahieA. oi v ^/^cccUvq^- Fancied Candidates for the Derby and Oaks THE fifth renewal of the war time Oaks and Derby series is down for decision for Friday and Saturday, respectively, the 16th and 17th. My notes are necessarily written before the final forfeits have been declared, but it is possible to set out the names of most of the better fancied candidates. Let me say at once that I have ...

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Desire for Service

... By A. Croxton Smith IN no animal that goes on four feet are the principles of altruism so deeply seated as in the dog, who is never so happy as when serving those to whom he is attached. Taking a slight liberty with old Omar, one might say this disposition of his is the sovereign alchemist that in a trice life's leaden metal into gold transmutes. In some breeds heredi tary instincts, ...