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... broached the matter again because I thought a week's quiet in these surround ings would be very good for you after London, and you are certainly now look ing rested and extremely fit. To-morrow morning we '11 really get down to the business, and if ten ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3769 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

EUROPE on a dime

... frontier! He was also within an hour or Continued on page 56) 9 I just stroll down the main hill between ten jn the morning and noon and play the exchanges B* Best of all are the bistros the little cafes where working- men swallow gargantuanly in the ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2028 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

Trampers Of The Skies

... development of the aerial taxi service which aims to take passengers any where at all distance 110 object at twenty-four i*-' hours' notice, but owing to the prior notice of flights regulations, departures are delayed anything from three to five days. The ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1328 | Page: 65 | Tags: Photographs 

JUST LIKE THE IVY

... my eyes or whether he thought I I had prbmised Dille that this would definitely be my last fight, and we spent long, lazy hours together on the sun-drenched beach with the palms whispering over our heads as we talked over my plans for a stage career. ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2534 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Patrick Campbell's Piece

... that I was unablr to see the New Year in twice in the space of 24 hours. I'm the spirit of the new halfcentury. Everybody wants to hear me sing. He lets go again: • This is the year to work and be thrifty, All hail, good friend, to Nineteen Fifty ? I ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 451 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

4.5404 in • -PARADE 4_ttxt v

... at the Ritz Hotel there for three weeks. He is writing a new book, his first in five years, and has done most of it in his bathroom, because it's warmer than the bedroom, he says. The last time we saw Hemingway at work was during the war in France. an ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1112 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

* * *

... orooaganda of yours, but how long can vou keen nifty in 1950? It wouldn't mean them up to the mark? A week. anything. There'd be no message. two weeks? This is it, I observe. Here it The child considers this procomes I wonder why you think position ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 531 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ARMY MAKES US LAZY

... ex-Trooper, Morrissey. We moved from Aldershot. Blandford after completing two weeks basic training. ing the fi ve weeks we h • here we have been doing exact nothing. Our work—nearly a Of us have School Certi fi cate aried from sweeping billets and diggin ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 316 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DAILY MIRROR What would you do with ,_llenry metelmann''

... will be having a pint of beer, checking his pools and listening to Have a Go'-' this week like thousands of other British workmen. He'll draw £4 14s. for his week's work on a Surrey farm, put a little aside for his annual holiday and chat over the prospects ...

Published: Tuesday 03 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1762 | Page: 2 | Tags: none