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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I have been in Hospital. My shoulder has been very peculiar ever since August. The Great Bone Chief said it all came of heaving heavy baskets about in the garden and that I 'd better stop. That's O.K. by me, I said, and handed the garden over to the Bindweed with a bow. The Great Bone Chief gave me a splint to wear. It was like the one I had two years ago ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1278 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE PRICE OF PROTECTION

... 1 .' I By KENNETH G. MYER. WHAT happens now? asked Diana Rainer. Sipping a glass of Imperial Tokay which had miracu lously survived two wars, John Meston considered the problem confronting him. He thought ruefully that perhaps He should never have set up as an amateur detective, but have adopted some other career in which the qualities that had made him a successful commando would have stood ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1396 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

AUSTIN

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Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 162 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

Schweppes

... Minding their P's Q's In the colourful days of early com mercial expansion the forerunner of the modern change was the coffee shop (from which sprang Lloyds) and the bars dispensing punch. In the the wily merchant not only t latter it became the custom watch his bargaining but t to chalk up each merchant's keep an eye on the taver score for final settlemetit. keeper to see that he was nc P ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 113 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

KENT-COSBY

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Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 54 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Safety First

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Safety First. .Eureka! I have discovered the secret of social security. At least, the Governor of the Vermont State Prison has discovered it for me. When some of the boys showed a certain querulous disposition-- they will grouse at times about trifles-- the Governor just told them, man to man, to count their blessings. You lucky people, said he, to be out of the ...

Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2307 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

Gorringes

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Published: Wednesday 06 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 52 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

GREATEST DOWNHILL SKI-RACE--THE PARSENN DERBY

... GREATEST DOWNHILL SKI-RACE-- THE PARSENN DERBY. 4 The most gruelling race of the Swiss ski-ing season, THE PARSENN DERBY, was won this year by M. Jean Blanc, who made it in 14 min. 0'5 sec. The race was started in 1924 by an Englishman, Mr. Fred W. Edlin, and it has now become a popular Swiss institution ever y year 300 to 500 skiers take part thousands of spectators line the course. The ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 108 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

BEGINNING AGAIN

... . By PETER COURTENAY. THE Ship's Adjutant glanced at the address on the telegraph form. You'll be home in six hours with luck, he said, and smiled. How long since you saw England? Four years. It 's a long time. Much too long. The slim figure in khaki with three pips on his shoulder turned to look out of the porthole at the strip of ruffied gr#y water narrowing in the clear English ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1470 | Page: Page 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 20 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 297 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Getting a Move On

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The time has come Getting a Move On. said Walrus Cripps, to talk of many things of the science of happiness and comfort, rather than the techniques of speed and mass murder. An admirable sentiment, with this rider-- that the time has not merely come, but it came a long time ago. We are a bit late in the day, and it has become somewhat difficult to recall science ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2316 | Page: Page 2, 3, 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

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... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- I dreamed the other night that I went to a party given by Lady B. in her old home which she sold six years ago. It was a rather dull party, which Lady B.'s parties in real life never are, and we all stood about eyeing each other suspiciously until she said, Now we will have some FOOD. Everybody brightened at these words, lor even sand wiches with a scraping ...

Published: Wednesday 20 March 1946
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1047 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Illustrations