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Hope for Humans

... steadily fulfilling hope and sustaining belief. rr^HEY had begun their journey on April 28th. On July 30th they saw land the island of Puka-puka. Land An island We devoured it greedily with pur eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1955 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

Books

... yellow headtop, is angry and attacktive. I thank you. And after the woman parrot had bitten the child of a guest: Sir! I regret the maiden's peck, but it is not to blame for Gustele, my woman parrot, who was tickled by the maiden and who does not like the ...

Published: Friday 01 September 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2357 | Page: 88 | Tags: Review 

Rope-ends & Rum

... has been called a liar. Morgan said so. A libel action was taken against his publishers. But he travelled as surgeon with the army that burnt Panama. Mr. Lindsay sees no reason to doubt the truth of his narrative, except in the case of the ill treatment ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

THE GREAT WARSAW UPRISING: General Bor-Komorowski Tells the Story of The Secret Army, a Sombre Chapter in ..

... 1939, when Poland was overrun, some of the Polish Army officers, the General among them, escaped to France, and from there began to organise small groups of resistance. Ol this underground army he was one of the principal figures, and from 1943 its comm ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1795 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

TWO ATTEMPTS to ASSESS ALGER HISS

... A. Filose, a former officer of that corps. The regiment was raised in 1858, to become one of the most famous in the Indian Army, and to occupy a most distinguished position, particularly in the last war when it served in the Middle East as well as in ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1717 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Sunset and Dawn

... taken to himself a temporary wife from the Yonis Barra, a dark siren who had passed through many hands before. Naturally this woman was used as a sort of Delilah by the Yonis Barra chiefs, if one can use the word Delilah when the Samson (who happens to be ...

Published: Wednesday 31 January 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1854 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE RIOTOUS STORY OF STANISLAVSKY: The Genius of the Moscow Art Theatre, and the Free and Full Life which He Lived

... bed, when his nurse sat reading to him the memoirs of a well-known actress, he stopped her and said Duse was a fascinating woman. She was so lemimne. isverymmg aDOur ner was feminine, from the straying wisps of hair at the nape of her neck to the tip of ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1673 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARD: Mr. Malcolm Ross's Novel About an American Who Was Born in 1940 and Died Attempting ..

... novel of considerable merit, written, incidentally, by an Australian. Helen Henev, which tells the story of a beautiful Polish woman in whom patriotism and a more domestic love burn with equally devouring flames. It is a story that you will want to read slowly ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1683 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

PRIESTLEY'S FESTIVAL AT FARBRIDGE: A Novel that is Rich, Various, Warm, Witty, and Over and Above All, the Most ..

... his two docile little daughters. When a land-mine falls on the village hall in which he is thought to be, he leaves the village, is presumed to have been killed, and assumes another identity and a life as an Army private in his searcii for the Christian ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1691 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

MARK CLARK AND THE CALCULATED RISK: Another Allied General Adds His Forthright Testimony to the Record of the ..

... is now a major industry in some places and a form of art wherever it is practised. A novel about a woman and two men who are in love with her a woman, moreover, who can't decide with which of the men she is more in love sounds simple, and some might ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1768 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

RABBIT TO MISS JACKSON'S SNAKE: A Writer Who Can Be Disconcerting, but Whose Books are Not to be Missed

... unspectacular heroism on the part of a young man and a girl. He is a soldier returning to Sydney after the war she, a pretty young woman in love with him, but realising that his affection for her is more casual. It is not until after that light feeling of his ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1612 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: Red Letter Day Garrick

... has not noticed at any rate, she has declined to recognize that her daughter is no longer a child. Though her son is in the army he is still her favourite baby, and she has shown her sense of the unseemliness of the infant's marriage by being perfectly ...

Published: Wednesday 05 March 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 867 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review