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A STIRRING WEEK OF SPORT

... A STIRRING WEEK OF SPORT Last week was one of the great climaxes of the English summer-- sun or rain-- with the Wimbledon tennis championships in their final stages, the third Test match between England and Pakistan at Leeds, and Henley. Although it was ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 378 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

(G) I K^yur Ci/ octa

... ball was his wife, Mr. Frank Strawson, chairman of the Jesters, a very famous squash club, and Mrs. Strawson, a former Wimbledon tennis player. It was Mr. Radford's wise idea that the ballroom should be lit by candles which spluttered attractively on every ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1281 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

ALAS! NO TEARING TANTRUM

... pass this over to the anthropologists. Forward, Mr. Geoffrey Gorer. Show hats, please. A PARTY FOR WIMBLEDON TENNIS PLAYERS THE reception for Wimbledon tennis players given by Dr. S. Leonard Simpson and the Committee of the Simpson Services Club is now an ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2045 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

But No, It Has To Be Steak

... beside me. I thought of kidnapping and decided I would rather like to be kidnapped. We passed Forest Hills and talked of Wimbledon tennis. The girl inquired of le merits of the South African cricketers, f- le asked if I had friends in New York and ce Id she ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1222 | Page: 58 | Tags: Photographs 

POLO AT WINDSOR

... R. Buser. Iord Templewood, Earl Jowitt and Lady Greig, widow of Sir Louis Greig, for years i a great personality of Wimbledon tennis, were among those in the Royal Box watching this match. The best match I saw was the defeat of Lennart Bergelin, the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 June 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3651 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LAWN TENNIS DINNER

... makes her home on the Riviera. Capt. Philip Glover, R.N., who is one of the leading lights of the committee during the Wimbledon tennis fortnight and was himself many times navy tennis champion, had a table with the Hon. Mrs. Glover, who is also a first-class ...

Published: Wednesday 11 July 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3621 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

JACK AND DAPHNE BARKER

... Piccadilly, and the victims of their latest compositions range from Robert Helpmann via Christian Dior to Teddy Tinling, of Wimbledon tennis-wear fame. In the photograph above they are deploring the fate of Sally, who Got the Bullet from the Ballet PhotogTaph'ed ...

Published: Wednesday 29 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 72 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs