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HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... on The History of Costume and Mr. Teddy Tinling on Dress Designing. They are looking forward now to Lady Cynthia Payne speaking on How to Plan a Wardrobe, Vicomtess d'Orthez is coming to tell them about the spring collections on her return from Paris ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2028 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

HOME NEWS AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR

... the new dome will adjoin the I existing one shown in this picture. Dr. E. Finlay-Freundlich, of St. Andrews Observatory, speaking of the new camera-recorder, said that it would have a six-degree field of vision, giving a camera-plate coverage I of 16 ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

HONG-KONG HAS CAUSE FOR CONCERN: As the Communists Head for South China

... centre for the contending Intelligence services and it is the easiest of places to seep into a la Trojan Horse. Militarily speaking, Hong-Kong gives small ground for complacency.. The island has been called indefensible, but whether that be true or not ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1974 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Those Early Vegetables

... important. A combination of adequate heat and inadequate daylight may cause seedlings to become weak and sickly, and, generally speaking, seeds sown in a heated greenhouse within three or four weeks of the shortest day are at a disadvantage compared with those ...

Pictures in the Fire

... which was his due, and it was a very useful gallop, but it would be very unwise to forget that the distance was, roughly speaking, a mile and a half short of the Grand National, and that the Kempton fences are not the Aintree ones. We do not yet know ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

A Civilising Influence

... intro duction to the blond Maglemosians of the Baltic area. Those of us who are not well versed in the subject are apt to speak somewhat vaguely about the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages, and to forget that between the two was a long transition period ...

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... country home acted -as a fresh tonic to the King's already much brighter spirits. Indeed, those who have been seeing and speaking to him in recent days all agree that he is in excellent form and shows the greatest cheerfulness. Further plans are necessarily ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1473 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

The Late 1948

... Alliss' son Peter seems our most promising player, and under his father's eye he should make the grade. The list of averages speaks for itself, though it is a curious fact that the top four are all light weights. Von Nida, Ward, Rees and Daly are small men ...

THE RAMIFICATIONS OF I.C.I: Britain's Vast Chemical Enterprise

... Britain, he declared the social reforms introduced have not been patchy, but represent a new social order. While Mr. Attlee was speaking, a voice demanded from the back of the hall Why did Bevan call us vermin Mr. Attlee ignored this first interruption. When ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1525 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

The DEADLY STRUGGLE of CHRISTIANITY and COMMUNISM

... to frustrate its activities, j to sap its life, and to cut off from it boys and girls as they grow up THE BISHOP OF OXFORD SPEAKS The Rt. Rev. K. E. Kirk addressing the Bishops during Convocation. Seated on the right at the top table is the Bishop of ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 299 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs