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NOTES FOR THE NOVEL-READER. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS BOOKS OF THE DAY. Feb. 18, 1950 BLACK, BROWN OR ..

... colonial or economically backward peoples. Miss Rosita Forbes, in Islands in the Sun (Evans ; 12s. 6d.), speaks of the West Indies, of which she writes so alluringly, as a crucible wherein spiritual and racial precipitates are being tested. As outposts ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1950
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1136 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Brilliant fielders

... but I can promise cricket enthusiasts in this country that they will see entertaining play whatever the conditions. The West Indies are incapable of dull, dreary batting. They are always looking for runs and tilt the ball with astonishing power. The one ...

Published: Friday 24 February 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 506 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WEST INDIES SEND STRONGEST-EVER TEAM FOR TESTS

... WEST INDIES SEND STRONGEST-EVER TEAM FOR TESTS By Charles Bray THERE will need to be vast Improvement In;loth cricket this summer if the Test series with the West Indies is to be won. The team which John Goddard. the burly. bluff Barbadian. will captain ...

Published: Friday 24 February 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GLORY OF DENMARK: A Magnificent Pictorial Survey

... (Stanley Paul. 16s.). as the title suggests, does not lack fireworks, and Constantine makes a violent attack on those in the West Indies who are still allowing racial discrimination to spoil the game in the islands THE HORSEMAN'S YEAR (Collins. 10s. 6d.) is ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 779 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

AGAINST BIRCHING

... the Argonaut aircraft. Captain Womersley has flown extensively on the routes between Britain and South America and the West Indies and has logged nearly 5.000 flying hour, He Is married and is 35 years of age. ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: Richmond Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 394 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PURCHASED BY A U.S. MUSEUM: THE ANTIOCH CHALICE

... CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF \ THE WEST INDIES : H.R.H. PRINCESS ALICE. On February 16 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, was | installed as Chancellor of the University College of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, and is shown in her robes ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1950
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1115 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

It. Hockey Six Forwards, No Points

... the tour when he was out I.b.w , — Clime from BIM Alley. the Coln. Club cricketer from New South Wales. and Frank WorreU (West Indies. Tha7 took the total from 230 to 300 In 25 minutes. COMMOWWWALTN. /Int InnNM I SU 1., W. Mott_ M. 7. Worrell TT. W. Alloy ...

Published: Sunday 26 February 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 328 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH UIACIVE A

... to be not only a good one. bus most attractive to watch. The betting la regarded as the strongest ever to represent the West Indies. either at borne or abroad. ...

Published: Tuesday 28 February 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1015 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

From Sinner To Saint: Some Interesting Facts About The Toad Which Is A Gardener's Ally And A Farmer's Friend

... years, and the animal has taken its rightful place as gardener's ally and farmer's friend. Particularly is this so in the West Indies, where special farms have been set up for breeding giant toads, after they had rid the sugar plantations of root-destroying ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1334 | Page: 22, 71, 72 | Tags: Photographs 

ENGAGEMENTS

... Navana VandyU Miss Diana Mary Huggins, eldest daughter of Sir John and Lady Huggins, of King's House. Jamaica, British West Indies, has announced her engagement to Mr. Donald Bruce McKinney, second son of Mr. II. A. McKinney, of Montrose, Nassau, Bahamas ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 122 | Page: 40 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

On Pioneer Flight To Chile One of the two stewardesses aboard the 8.0.A.C. Argonaut airliner that left London ..

... She joined British South American Airways in July, 1946, and flew for three years on the routes to South America and the West Indies. Following the merger of B.S.A.A. with 8.0.A.C. last year. she transferred to 8.0.A.C.'s No. 1 Line, which operates the ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1950
Newspaper: Harrow Observer
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 397 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE KENSINGTON NEWS AND WEST LONDON TIMES Friday March 3rd 1950 Christian Science Lecture 0 Under the auspices ..

... keen journalist all her life and served her apprenticeship in Fleet Street While still undergraduate she represented the West Indies at the Empire Press Union’s Conferences and was the only woman delegate She also ‘covered’ the Coronation in Westminster ...