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THE PYRENEES

... from the Cote Basque to the Cote Vermeille on the Mediterranean-- offer all the year round holiday enjoyment under a southern sun. For further information apply to any Travel Agent or the French National Tourist Office, 179 Piccadilly, London, IV. I ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 45 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

INDIA

... f h e dSHHHi: I mm. \Jrhe M The famous Red Ring returns a decoration won for distinguished conduct in he field of endurance and safety and, more than tha a mark of pride in craftsmanship and of confidence in the road performance of the Finest Tyres Made. Why . TYRES are the Finest Tyres Made Tyres are designed and built on a highly advanced principle BALANCED CONSTRUC TION whereby tread, ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 116 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: Photographs 

MECHANICS DOWN ON THE FARM AND DOWN BY THE SEA: New Pictures from Britain and Germany

... Th e new lightships which are now making their appearance around our coasts incorporate many technical improvements and better accommodation for the crews than the pre-war vessels which they are re placing. The latest of these vessels to take station, the' Kentish Knock has just been moored off the Kent coast. Half of the sixteen Trinity House vessels lost during the war have already been ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 548 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A Record of the HOME NEWS IN PICTURES

... 1. CANADAIR SHOWS THE WAY: Between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000 is being spent by B.O.A.C. on the fleet of twenty-two Canadair air liners which are being made in the Canadair factory outside Montreal. About one-fifth of the equipment for the machines, including the Rolls-Royce engines, is being supplied from Britain. The arrival or the hrst ot the machines at London Airport was made some thing of ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1212 | Page: Page 26, 27 | Tags: Photographs 

The BATTLE of the MARKS in BERLIN: The Western Sectors Shut Out the Soviet Currency

... JT^r. Ernest Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, told the City Assembly last week that he hoped to reopen the question of the city's inclusion in a new West German State, and meanwhile the currency changes, he declared, were a recognition on the part of the Western Allies that we here in Berlin are a part of the West and will be treated and protected as such. Dr. Reuter's confidence was matched by ...

MUSICAL ROMANCES: Belinda Fair at the Saville Theatre; Brigadoon in Manchester; Queen Mary Visits the Savoy Theatre

... QUEEN MARY AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL AT THE SAVOY THEATRE Alec Guinness is received by Her Majesty during an interval of the performance. In the background are the Princess Royal, talking to Sophie Stewart, and Mr. Stanley French, who presents the play. Queen Mary seldom misses a play of importance and is become the foremost patron of the London theatre. Last week she saw J. Lee-Thompson and ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 469 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE LIGHTS OF LONDON: Crowds Throng to See the West End Illuminations

... LEICESTER SQUARE AFTER THE SWITCH-ON This was one of the brightest spots in the West End. The red, green, gold and white legends, with their staccato flickering devices, on the theatres, cinemas and shops have gained in effect because their background still lacks the brilliance of ten years ago. Leicester Square, like Piccadilly Circus, was jammed with pedestrians last Saturday night A SEA OF ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 340 | Page: Page 6, 7 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A BILLION MEALS FOR THE CHILDREN: Some of the More Solid Achievements of the United Nations

... THIS week-end sees the continuation at Lake Success of the adjourned regular session of the United Nations which failed to finish in Paris last December. To the man in the street the words United Nations generally conjures up images of Russian and American delegates shouting at each other, with sarcastic comments by other delegates and a series of grimaces and grins photographed close-up by ...

COMMUNISM and ANTI-COMMUNISM in NEW YORK: Picketing at the Rival Conferences

... KERENSKY AT AN ANTI-COMMUNIST MEETING IN NEW YORK The former leader of the Russian people, whose short-lived provisional regime preceded the October Revolution staged by Lenin, talking with Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, (the Russian schoolteacher who leaped from the Russian Consulate last summer), at the rally at Freedom House, New York, held as a counterblast to the Cultural and Scientific ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 521 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FOREIGN NEWS IN PICTURES: A Survey of World Events

... I and 2. FLURRY IN THE CARIBBEAN: Lord Baldwin, Governor of the Leeward Islands, who returned to London earlier in the year to meet the Colonial Secretary, journeyed back to Antigua in the S.S. Barfleur, from Dieppe, and on arrival received a welcome from the islanders that betokens his enormous popularity. As his launch touched the jetty the Governor waved once to the multitudes ashore, and ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1129 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Photographs 

LONDON IN SPRING: Excavations in the City: Cleaning St. James's Park Lake: The New Garden in Hanover Square

... J-- J anover Square was built as a fashionable place of residence in 1718. It is now almost entirely commercial. The famous Hanover Square Rooms stood on the site of No. 4. Beau BrummeU's celebrated inquiry concerning the Prince of Wales Sherry, who's your fat friend? is said to have been made at the Hanover Square Rooms, which later were renamed the Queen's Ancient Concert Rooms and used as ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 496 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs