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... 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 ...
... The idea of the parachute medical unit is to make it possible to deal at short notice with casualties at aircraft accidents in areas which would otherwise be inaccessible. Teams would be ready at air stations to leave at a moment's notice for an aircraft accident, fully qualified to deal with casualties and equipped for a stay of seven days. In time of war they would work in the forward areas. ...
... HI BONDI BEACH, WHERE THE PEOPLE OF SYDNEY GO IN THEIR THOUSANDS TO SURF- AND SUN-BATHE Bondi, lying on the South Pacific Ocean, but less than four miles from Sydney's Central Station, is the most popular of all the popular beaches, but there is choice in plenty at Manly, Chowder Bay, and Watson's Bay, all lying just within the harbour at Carbanta, on the Paramatta River at Coogee, near ...
... THE MODERN KASPAR HAUSER Fourteen-year-old Gerald Sullivan standing in the police station at boston, Massa chusetts, clothed in the rags in which he escaped from a locked room in his home. The police, who charged the boy's mother with neglect, declared that Gerald had been kept prisoner for ten years by Mrs. Sullivan to keep secret her sin in bearing an illegitimate child. Mrs. Sullivan ...