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FROM WASHINGTON TO TOKYO: A Pictorial Survey of World Affairs

... I ^M]^Ai/T|r^wJinf^flK 1 and 2. NEWS OUT OF EGYPT: Following the divorce of King Farouk and the divorce of the Shah of Iran, members of the Egyptian Royal Family were not seen widely in public for some weeks. The ex-Empress of Iran, who is the twenty-seven-year-old sister of King Farouk, has now re-married. The bridegroom, Ismail Sherine Bey, a member of one of Egypt's leading families and a ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1404 | Page: Page 14, 15 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD OF MOTORING: The British Austin Team at Indianapolis: Volkswagen Production: The Car with a ..

... HELP BY CARAVAN FOR DRIVERS IN DISTRESS Easter motorists who ran into difficulties were able to call on this new service inaugurated by the Automobile Association the Mobile Road Office. The purpose of the service is to place A.A. facilities at the disposal of members who are not within easy reach of London headquarters or an area office. At each mobile office travellers can obtain help under ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 611 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE R.A.F. USES FALCONS: Keeping the Runways Free of Birds at Coltishall

... HThe problem of wild birds colliding with aircraft is as old as the history of flying. In fact, it was recorded in 1910 that an aircraft flying at Long Beach, California, collided with a seagull which got wedged between the fin and rudder. Unable to steer, the pilot lost control and was killed. Since then countless aircraft of all kinds have been damaged or destroyed in acci dents caused by ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 435 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

BARNET ENSIGN ROSS LTD

... , , Y ou '11 like its taking ways Twelve or Sixteen pictures on a standard roll film pin sharp focussing at all distances with coupled range-finder a shutter release which positively prevents double exposure that's the Ensign way to better, more successful photography. F/3.5 Lens and Epsilon shutter speeded to 1/300 second are fitted to this Commando Camera. Leading example of modern British ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 86 | Page: Page 40 | Tags: Photographs 

Paris night & Day

... PARIS this Spring has produced few fashion surprises. The basic silhouette is narrow, with floating panels, asymmetrical draperies, apronlike overskirts and a multiplicity of jackets, giving an illusion of width to the natural form. At the same time there are more simple wearable clothes than ever before. Typical examples are (left) Paquin's black after noon gown with a pointed shoulder-line, ...

Helena Rubinstein

... yftte&icC' to Summer Prepare to face the summer sunlight knowing that your skin and com plexion have a flower petal texture and the pearly translucence of an ivory 1 miniature. At 's salon in Berkeley Square individually it devised treatments are given for every type of skin. Plastic Treatment resculptures a drooping contour. Oxylation Treatment brings new lightness and brightness to dull, ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 103 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

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... WHITBREAD IN ENGLISH HISTORY conversation expressed a wish to see these l$P£V*a]W among the things for himself. One Satur- \mFJ population of day morning he duly arrived sb London in 1787 with his Queen and three a favourite topic was the little Princesses and spent wondrous new mechanical two hours going over the devices installed in Brewery. When the crowd Mr. Whitbread's Brewery in which ...

Spring Sales

... THE Red Poll Society report increasing interest in their Reading Shows. The recent Spring Show attracted many buyers and sellers from the West and South, where the Red Poll is popular because of its suitability for the bail system of milking. One hundred and two head (76 females and 26 bulls) of attested cattle averaged £152 3s. 4d. Vendors included Lady Palmer, whose husband, the late Sir ...

Lakeland a... Eastertide

... I Lakeland a! i Eastertide THE majority of holiday-makers are obliged to wait until summer for their annual vacations. The fells in spring are very lovely for those mostly from the North and Midlands who are able to walk through the hills and dales of this unspoiled corner of England. It is a wonderful country for young people, and happy indeed are those groups, such as our young Austrian ...

On Long Hitting

... Oil Long Hitting EVERY golfer, whatever his actual standing in the world of golf, would be untruthful if he did not admit that he gets a real kick out of hitting an extra good one one off the meat, or, as they say in America, one on the nose. How far it goes depends on one's own timing, limited directly by the amount of speed one can impart to the club-head, and that is dependent on the ...

Bacon on a Chain

... BY keeping pigs in harness. Brigadier E. G. Warren, C.B.E., of the Northampton- shire Regiment (retired), plans on his eleven-acre County Limerick holding to show how more bacon can be produced. Pigs, he says, do not gain enough weight when they wander where they like they damage fences and time is lost rounding them up. The remedv A harness. This is made of two straps. One fits over the pig ...

Some Portraits in Print: Being the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... tan frtrata nm Frimt Beiii^ the lucubrations of your molt obedient {cribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles I NEVER thought of Hammersmith Broadway in terms of either beauty or wonderment, nor that my eyes would ever be ravished at the sight of it. Yet, by one of those whimsies which make life the richer in fun, it was at this normally unlovely spot that I first saw, and gaped at, the returned lights of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 April 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1521 | Page: Page 4, 5 | Tags: Photographs