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RUNNING A SPEAKEASY: Honor Tracy's new novel, set in the West Indies, is the first of this week's fiction

... RUNNING A SPEAKEASY Honor Tracy's new novel, set in the West Indies, is the first of this week's fiction Ebullient, vital, Rabelaisian, philosophic-- all these terms could be applied to that fabulous American character, Belle Livingstone, who brought ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1330 | Page: 29 | Tags: Review 

MISS FRANKAU ON WRITING Records of London's theatres, cricket and prophecy through the ages; and this week's ..

... distinguished Australian cricketer and journalist, kept a diary during the Brisbane Test Match last December between the West Indies and Australia and on this he has based his new book, with the sensational title of THE GREATEST TEST OF ALL (Collins. 12s ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1514 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

SURVEYING THE MILLIONAIRE

... Morris of Australia, Peter May, gay Denis Comp- ton, Keith Miller, the world's greatest all-rounder, Clyde Walcott of the West Indies, dashing Godfrey Evans would keep wicket, of course, Jim Laker, Benaud (or Lock on a wet wicket), Lindwall and Statham ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1593 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

THE ACTOR FROM DUBLIN: The diaries of Micheál MacLiammóir; Ogden Nash's verse; Ray Lindwall on cricket and ..

... Books. 21s.), by Mr. Ray Lindwall, famous Australian cricketer and critic, who has reviewed here the matches between the West Indies and Australia in the past winter. Every cricketing fan must remember these games and incidents. Mr. Lindwall reviews them ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1197 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

FOR VARYING TASTES

... introduces the book with a chapter on his first, gives a summary of the M.C.C.'s win over the West Indies, and the series between Australia and the West Indies, and then deals in detail with the series of Tests which resulted in Australia retaining the ...

THE VOICE OF THE COMMON WEALTH

... month Seventeen Indian cricketers ascend their Air-India Boeing airliner at London Airport. They were en route for the West Indies where they are to play a Test series. When the two teams last played, in 1958, the Indian side lost two and drew three matches ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1428 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

Old & new sounds in London

... their individual roles. An exciting newcomer to London's recording studios is trumpeter Shake Keane, who came from the West Indies some 10 years ago. In My Condition (SEG8140) is an EP of imagination and surprise, the title piece seemingly derived from ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 617 | Page: 53 | Tags: Review 

INSIDE JOURNALISM: Hugh Cudlipp on the Mirror Group and the autobiography of the editor of Life; recent fiction ..

... beginning with the last match in the first Test series in 1894 and ending with the historic Test between Australia and the West Indies last year. These chapters not only give a record of classic games: they are each written by experts in the matter of observation ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1309 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

The tensions behind Caribbean literature-- and aspects of Jamaica

... the area is provided by Mr. G. R. Coulthard, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language and Literature in the University of the West Indies, in his book RACE AND COLOUR IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (Oxford University Press, for the Institute of Race Relations. 25s ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 745 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

Past times in India and Rhodesia; and Jamaica today and yesterday

... religious customs and folklore of the island. The author, Mary Manning Carley, is an economist at the University College of the West Indies. She has covered her subject with professional thoroughness, and having lived most of her life in Jamaica, she has a very ...

Published: Saturday 30 March 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 628 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

LUXURIOUS VOLUMES

... aspect of angling, and is as comprehensive and detailed as anyone would wish. The West Indies at Lord's by Alan Ross: Eyre and Spottiswoode. 15s. Summer Spectacular The West Indies v. England, 1963 by J. S. Barker: Collins. 15s. Frank Worrell by Ernest Eytle ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2497 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

on books: SOME MEDIUM-LIGHTS

... Russian hat Pahura, the native girl Gauguin loved, as a lined old lady in 1930, sitting beside the painter's accordion. The West Indies at Lord's by Alan Ross (Eyre Spottis- woode 15s.) is a charming and exciting book written by my favourite cricket correspon ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 826 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review