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... THE English Sunday-- for what the words mean to the world at large-- is a legacy of the nineteenth century in particular. The comfort induced by heavy feeding lay at its foundations. Without those meals which reached down to the humblest cottage in the land, the gnawing void could but have stirred people from their proper station, in protest. To-day the case against the English Sunday ...
... AIR-LIFTED TO A NEW HOMELAND Jewish mothers and their children tended by a nurse of the Women's International Zionist Organisa tion as they flew from Aden to Israel in one of the craft of Alaskan Airlines, an American company now carrying out air-lift operations on behalf of the American Joint Distribution Com mittee. The Aden Jews, it may be remembered, suffered terribly in the pogrom of 1947 ...
... A SECOND NEW RUNWAY AT TEGEL AIRPORT, IN THE FRENCH SECTOR OF BERLIN, WILL FURTHER SPEED THE AIRLIFT Bulldozers of the United States Engineers engaged in levelling the ground for a landing-strip which will handle the huge C 97 aircraft which the Americans are going to employ for bringing supplies into the city. The C 97s have a capacity of twenty tons. This extension for the airlift will be ...
... HThe news that the Old Parish Church of St. Marylebone, now used as the parish's chapel, is in a serious state of decay is sad indeed, for it is a place of many remarkable associations. Sheridan was married at the old church in 1773 to Miss Linley, although he had previously gone through a form of marriage with her when escorting her to France, to avoid the persistent atten tions of Major ...
... BORN IN THE BOTTOM OF A BOAT TO A MOTHER WHICH HAD BEEN HOOKED FROM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL-- ONE OF A QUADRUPLET SET OF SPUR-DOG VIVIPAROUS SHARKS Mr. Gordon Baber, a fisherman of Brighton, who had landed the mother shark twelve miles off Shoreham, later took the four offspring to the Brighton Aquarium, where the pictures on this page were taken. It appears that after he had restarted fishing, ...
... CURZON STREET, Mayfair, makes, one think more in terms of luxury flats and social clubs than of big business. And yet in a single room of No. 30, transactions involving £31,000,000 were com pleted last year which in 1949 will probably hit £40,000,000. For this is the clearing house of I.A.T.A., the International Air Transport Association, to which almost all the leading international airlines ...
... TSsSt1 PHYLLIS CALVERT chooses an Evening Gown from our Collection of Speciality-Models IK, first fashion ...
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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Military Occupation. --The information that in 1949 one-seventh part of the County of Wiltshire is in the occupation of the fighting services for training and accom modation is an eye-opener to the public which in due course should result in a reaction which must be felt by the Ministries concerned. We are in danger of a third world war and ill- prepared to ...
... THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT THE CENTENARY DINNER OF THE HARDWICKE SOCIETY, THE BAR DEBATING SOCIETY His Royal Highness reading an amusing extract from the 1927-31 minute-book of the Society during his address to members and guests in the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn. The President of the Society, Mr. R. Hendry White (Inner Temple), was in the chair THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WITH THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ...
... OXFORD TOOK THE LEAD FROM THE START AND HELD IT UNTIL TEN STROKES FROM THE FINISH Oxford (background) won the toss and took the Middlesex station. They are seen forging ahead. Davldge, the Oxford stroke, did 37\ in the first minute. Cambridge did not get off well, and for a while it looked as if the Dark Blues might go right away from their rivals. At the end of the second minute Oxford were ...