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September 1945
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NAVAL CORRESPONDENTS

... 1 1 NAVALCQRRESPQNDET^S/' By BRUCE WAUGH. SHE'S wunnerful, sighed Able Seaman Albert Dooley, of H.M.S. Topsides, gathering up a bundle of letters that the postie had dumped in front of his excited eyes. Absolutely wunnerful. he sighed again. 'Oo is asked George Whackitt, an Able Seaman whose mental vision at that moment could discern nothing but im penetrable gloom. George's mail had ...

AVON The Aristocrat of Tyres

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Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 40 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 291 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Gulf Between

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Gulf Between. Never the twain shall meet, and all that-- and I suppose it is well-nigh impossible for the Westerner to fathom the Oriental mind. I have tried it, without success, with certain intelligent Indians, and I once heard a long discus sion between Mr. Gandhi and a number of earnest English questioners. It seemed to me that not a single question was ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2369 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 50 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Faith's Baby-in-August has arrived. It is a boy. The Conductor is disappointed, because he wanted another girl, but Faith is pleased. She says sons are better than daughters, because they like their mothers to be young and beautiful, whereas daughters want their mothers to sit in the corner with their knitting. Faith says that when she was seventeen she wanted ...

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Published: Wednesday 19 September 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 320 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations