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... f(uueJmvMd By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Summer has come at last. St. Martin's, St. Luke's, Michaelmas, what you will, but Summer, and everybody who had settled down to a winter of gloom, fatigue and worry about the atomic bomb, coal and influenza, has sud denly perked up and begun smiling. Nearly all Charles's Patients were quite good about not being ill last Sunday, and he got his dinghy ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1195 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

H.R.H. LITTLE BOY BLUE

... H.R.H. LITTLE BOY BLUE. 1 his Little Boy Blue who at any moment may blow his horn is none other than H.R.H. PRINCE WILLIAM OF GLOUCESTER, three-year-old elder son of the Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia. The portrait was recently painted by Dora Toovey in Australia, and under the title H.R.H. Little Boy Blue was exhibited in the 1945 Exhibition of the Royal Art Society in Sydney. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 68 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

BRIGHTENING UP THE B.A.O.R.: AN EYEFUL OF MURALS AT AN OSTEND CANTEEN

... BRIGHTENING UP THE B.A.O.R. AN EYEFUL OF MURALS AT AN OSTEND CANTEEN. A snappy Welcome greets men and women of the B.A.O.R. who visit the Naafi cafe at Ostend. There are rich suggestions of food and drink in Rudolph Haybrook'' s mural over the door of the Information Bureau. Here With a Flask of Wine at the Time of the Three Moons. Ceremonial tea and pipes in the Chinese manner. The dancer ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 293 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LITTLE WHEELBARROW

... [j . BY BARBARA EUPHAN TODD. THREE, Longstaffe Road. Three, Longstaffe Road. Three, Long staffe Road. The address beat a marching chant in John Anderson's head as he left the station. Straight up the hill, first to the right, second to the left, and then, so Jean had said in her last letter, he'd find himself in Longstaffe Road. He wanted to run, but there were other people about soldiers ...

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Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 299 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: The Old Soup-and-Fish

... 1 MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Old Soup-and-Fish. So now I cannot dine among the elite, in the man ner and in the surroundings to which I am accustomed, unless I am arrayed in the Old Soup-and-Fish. Old is right! And I suppose that, in these days of Main Courses (and how magnificently main they are!), the apparel has shrunk to the Old Soup or Fish. I feel my position keenly. I do not ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2233 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 17 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 266 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Illustrations