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A SPANIEL THAT IS DIFFERENT

... By A. CROXTON SMITH INFORMATION that has reached me indicates that Clumber spaniels are having a share in the boom that is driving up the price of most breeds to an unexampled height. In their case it is possible that the increase is relatively more marked on account of the paucity of numbers. Handsome though they are in the show ring, and useful as beaters, they were not strong numeric ally ...

DORMA

... DORIHA CLEANSING MILK MOT A MOMENT TO COSE but she keeps her charm There's little time for make-up say yours faithfully it has the repairs in her working day. pores clean and the skin feeling How does she keep her charm cool, and ready to take your fresh She has a bottle of Dorma cream and powder.Dorma is also Cleansing Milk in her desk the ideal for removing your make-up secret of so many ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 117 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

John Buchan's Grandson: A Young Man With a Great Heritage

... John Buchan's Grandson A Young Man With a Great Heritage Edmund Fairfax-Lucy was born this summer, the son of Major Brian Fairfax-Lucy (late Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) and the Hon. Mrs. Fairfax-Lucy, who was formerly Miss Alice Buchan. Edmund is the 34th Lucy of Charlecote and comes of a family whose name has made history through the centuries. Their home since the twelfth century, ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

GEORGE DOBIE & SON LTD

... GEORGE DOBIE SON LT] ORGE DOBIE SON LTD. tobacco 99 FOUR SQUARE for me it's pure PAISLEY, SCOTLAND. One of the few remaining independent Tobacco firms, established 136 years ago. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1945
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 30 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... WHERE THE GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS WILL BE HOUSED-- THE CELL BLOCK IN THE NUREMBERG PRISON WHICH WILL HOLD THE MORE PROMINENT OF THE NAZIS AS THEY AWAIT TRIAL. At the end is a boarded-up section where important prisoners will be kept The first list of twenty-four major war criminals has been announced it is headed by Goering, Hess and Ribbentrop. Their trial, by a special International Military ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The OCCUPATION of AUSTRIA

... At last the Allied Council has been set up in Vienna, and the Military Govern ment of Austria has been arranged. In a similar way to Germany, four zones have been allotted to the four Powers-- the U.S.S.R., the U.S.A., Great Britain and France, with a General Control Council. The four military commissioners are Marshal Koniev for Russia. General Mark Clark for U.S.A., General McCreery for ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1301 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

AIRSTRIPS on the WATER: A Wartime Idea

... rrom time to time schemes have been put forward for floating aerodromes, on which trans-ocean air liners could alight and refuel, or repair, as occasion required. Some of them were very elaborate, but none came into being during the war. Experi ments were made, however, on a lesser scale with what might be termed floating airstrips. These were employed in comparatively calm waters and were ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HOW the NAVY USED RADAR: For Combating Aircraft and for Directional Gun-fire

... ninn UHU When Radar was first directed against enemy aircraft attacking this country, it had to deal with aircraft coming in at what one would describe as the normal angle. Effective contacts and workings would take place at, say, an angle of 45 degrees. Then, later, the enemy took to coming in at a very low angle. This meant an adaptation of equip ment. A system of towers was placed, usually ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 703 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

TOKYO BAY--Where the Japs Surrendered to the Allies

... The place of the official surrender of Japan to the Allied Nations was the sheet of water known as Tokyo Bay It is almost entirely land-locked, entrance to it being obtained through the narrow Uraga Strait. The great Allied fleet of 112 warships, which had previously been sheltering in Saga mi Bay moved into Tokyo Bay to the north lay the long waterfront of the Japanese capital. In the centre ...

THE RETURN OF THE BIG SHIPS

... Britain's great southern port is once more presenting the pre-war spectacle of great ships gliding up Southampton Water or setting southwards on their trans-ocean voyages. The Queen Elizabeth, biggest and longest of all existing ships, and the Queen Mary have both been using Southampton as an embarkation port for tens of thousands of American troops. The Queen Mary, with her 81,235 tonnage, is ...

A NEW ERA OF BRITISH NAVAL WARFARE

... The idea of a Fleet Train is not new but the principle, as announced by Mr. Churchill in the House of Commons on September 28 1944, was extended to give the British Fleet complete mobility and to enable it to operate continuously in distant waters on a scale that has not been attempted since the advent of steam, a design that differs greatly from existing ideas whereby a fleet returns to shore ...

ALLIED MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN GERMANY

... Allied Military Government units in Germany have a tough job to do. They are engaged on the reorganisation of local governments and police combing out Nazi officials and supervising those Nazis whom circumstances made it necessary to retain for the time being supplying food and seeing to its production listing and returning to the rightful owners looted works of art reorganisation of public ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1279 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs