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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 

BEDELL SMITH'S MOSCOW MISSION: The Record of His Embassy and of Intransigence Behind the Iron Curtain

... that the time had come for a move. After a sickening crossing they arrived at the little island of Grenada, in the British West Indies, and there they found their bungalow and moved into it after defeating the army of cock roaches that was in possession. ...

Published: Saturday 13 May 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1585 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SIR ALAN HERBERT'S JOYFUL NOVEL: Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Caraway and Stoke Provides Some Delightful ..

... judges of atrocity would call a trivial incident. In 1731 a master mariner, Robert Jenkins, came back to England from the West Indies with a story of the Spaniards cutting off his ear and rifling his ship. He was even willing to show the ear to anyone who ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1685 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

WATCH-DOG of the CONSTITUTION: In Mr. Balfour's Poodle, Roy Jenkins Recalls One of the Most Bitter and Hardly ..

... Hubertus (Seeker and Warburg. 15s.) continues Mr. Edgar Mittelholzer's series of novels on the early colonial life in the West Indies. The story opens in 1763, and its chief prota gonist is a planter of Dutch and Indian blood, the father of a brood of children ...

Published: Saturday 06 March 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1750 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF YOUTH: The Findings of a Young Don Provide an Interesting and Thoroughly Documented Story; ..

... daily, of the four fantastic months on and off the playing fields of the Caribbean during the M.C.C.'s 1954 tour of the West Indies. England's enrvi'lin T on II iiJfnn lirritoe in MIC t/Cipicuii, i-iV/ii 1 uinuu, n uiuo in uio foreword, that, to people ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1853 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A GALAXY OF GOVERNESSES: Miss Bea Howe's Book of the English Governess at Home and Abroad is as Instructive as ..

... mutually ex clusive. Mr. E. W. Stanton is cricket correspondent of a big London daily, and as such covered the matches in the West Indies, that were to provide so much controversy. West Indian Adventure (Museum Press. 9s. 6d.), however, dwells less with the ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1816 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE VERSATILE COCTEAU

... his world journey. Frank is very much a man in the Slocum tradition, and this story of his voyage from Cape Town to the West Indies in his yacht Wylo in the year 1947 is a grand adventure from start to finish. Mammals yield the secrets of their lives only ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2457 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

BATTLING FOR THE ASHES: Sid Barnes, Ray Robinson and Ian Peebles Comment on Cricket: Studying the Gyr Falcon ..

... Pakistan player, Hanif Mohammed, the young Cuan McCarthy from South Africa, Donnelly of New Zealand and Worrell of the West Indies. No one writing about the great game has a lighter touch or, it always seems to me, a more phenomenal memory than Mr. Robinson ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1768 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A SONG TO SING-O!: The Memoirs of Winifred Lawson; Biographies of Alfred Austin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas ..

... is remarkable to note that Trollope visited not only the United States and most of the countries of Europe, but also the West Indies, Ceylon, Iceland, South Africa and Australia, where he journeyed to the then primitive reaches of Western Australia and ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1729 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

TESTING BRITAIN'S AIRCRAFT: The Story of Wing-Commander Roland Beamont; Books on Travel, Autobiography, Cricket ..

... that noble game linger on, and the latest is Mr. Pat Landsberg's account of this year's series between Australia and the West Indies, which Australia won three up. The Kangaroo Conquers (Museum Press. 15s.) is a book for really keen followers an assessment ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 44 | Tags: Review