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PRINCESS ELIZABETH WITH THE CADETS AND THE GRENADIERS: Two Military Occasions on Which She Flew Her New ..

... The culmination of a three-day Army Cadet Force Rally in London took place at Stanhope Gate Hyde Park, last Sunday afternoon when, in perfect spring sunshine Princess Elizabeth took the salute as 6, (XX) cadets marched before her. The boys in the parade were all aged between fourteen and nineteen, and the total strength of the Cadet Force, which is seeking yet more recruits, now numbers 9,000 ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 394 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HARNESSING THE YANGTZE: The Chinese Government Plans a Giant Hydro-Electric Scheme: A New Dam in the United States

... 1 I n the last twenty years engineers have gained vast experience in the building of great dams, and now the vital knowledge gained at Great Boulder on the Colorado and at Grand Coulee will be employed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in assist ing the Government of China in planning and completing the harnessing of the Yangtze. This is without doubt the largest irrigation and hydro ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Graphic  Maps  Photographs 

SECRETS OF THE SUPER-FORTRESS REVEALED

... The part played by the Boeing B-29 Super-Fortress in the closing stages of the war is one that our own Royal Air Force has readily acknowledged, and there is no doubt that this great machine was a war-winning weapon of the highest order. With hostilities long since over, however, the Super-Fortress is still in the news. Only recently one of them established an altitude endurance record for ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 953 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Photographs 

SPILLS in a Point-to-Point Race in Cornwall

... THEY FLY THROUGH THE AIR WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE The Tetcott and South Tetcott Hunt recently held its point-to-point meeting at Roberts Hill, near Bude, Cornwall, and a remarkable feature of the day s sport was the number of riders who came to grief on the bank, an obstacle familiar enough in West Country hunting circles, but demanding a certain specialised skill on the part of the rider as ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 151 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HAMAN AS HITLER--A Bible Play in Modern Language

... HAM AN AS HITLER-- A Bible Play in Modern Language King Ahasueras and Esther give Haman the V-sign in response to the Hitler salute (top left) Queen Esther denounces Haman as the murderer of the Jews (above) and Haman cringes before Mordecai (bottom left). Three dramatic moments from the Yiddish Theatre Company s adaptation of the play Ahasueras, at the Folk House, Aldgate, I in London's East ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 161 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 27 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 14 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

The COMIC BULLFIGHTERS of MEXICO CITY: Cantinflas, Idol of the Bull-ring, and His Knockabout Collaborators

... Me-°, City takes its bull-fighting seriously, and most of the great idols of the Spanish arena appear there during the season but Mexico City had a day off from the real thing, thronging to u 11 7. r'n? to see tbeir favourite screen idols take part in a comic bull-fight given in aid of charity. They enjoyed a comedy that surpassed all expectations. Strutting and prancing across the arena in ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 520 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEW LAMPS and OLD: A Fortnightly Causerie on Life and Letters

... PRINCE OF SPENDTHRIFTS (5).-- By 1835, George Payne had run through the best part of his splendid patrimony and was already playing ducks and drakes with a family inheritance which had fallen in at a critical time. All his life* George had hunted with the Pytcliley and was now a regular follower under Osbaldeston's great Mastership. One wav and another, it was possible to get in six days a ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1145 | Page: Page 28 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 27 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 16 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

SAXONE SHOE COMPANY LIMITED

... ''/ir We wish we could say that every Saxone shop has this shoe, but limited supplies prevent us making any guarantees. Branches in all large cities ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 34 | Page: Page 33 | Tags: Photographs 

WM. BRIGGS & CO. LTD

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