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... Donkeys FLIPPANCY about the news that Oxford had twelve sur plus donkeys for sale was inevit able, if deplorable. Some people professed surprise. What more fitting place? Others said, What! Only twelve?, and pretended to disbelieve the state ment ...

THE VOICE OF THE WOODPECKER: A New Theory on How the Sound is Produced

... John Rignall, basing his findings on observations made in Battersea Park South West London, between September 1949 and January 1950, here gives his con sidered verdict on a question that has long exercised the attention of ornithologists. Drumming, he ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1695 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Portraits in Print: Being the lucubrations of your moft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles

... Barratt for £2,500 in 1886 and turned into a poster (no one knowing it better than the distinguished admiral who had to suffer so many years of having it publicly explained that he was the dear little original). Yet it was news to many that the equally ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1638 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Asprey

... 12.6 I W i Write for illustrated list of Christmas gifts Cedar crocodile with slide fastener, suede I lining £88.10.0 ?alf with suede lining it Black, Navy and Irown £12.12.0 ASPREY COMPANY LIMITED, 16 5-169, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.I ...

Published: Wednesday 08 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 114 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... details to t Watches of SWITZERLAND G. M. LANE CO. LTD. (Di ept. T57) 15 NEW BOND STREET, W.1 28 ROYAL EXCHANGE, E.C.3 lb-l/ L u L) b A 1 1 HILL, E.C.4 108 PICCADILLY (Park Lane Hotel) LONDON W.1 help her to help herself She is not seeking charity. We enable ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 594 | Page: 78 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... send a Christmas Gift, however small, to the Treasurer. Groom's Crippleage 37 SEKFORDE ST., LONDON, E.C.I 7(7-* it ml s late aided. Il it registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act. 1948 Evening Wear u for Christmas and the New Year For ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 585 | Page: 78 | Tags: Photographs 

London Limelight

... London Limelight 17>## tttf nnut Carter A GOURMET'S theatre tour through the December evening in this year of grace should begin with hors d'ceuvres, those deli cate minutiae which make a reputation or a play, or an inescapable memory. Mr. Miles Malleson ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1324 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... ARIEL is an entirely new light weight mattress which cannot lose its shape. Snug in \J winter, cool in summer, the ARIEL floats on MATTRESS E BASE *Petial,J' d*igned *pring-edged base luxury upon luxury Please and for illustrated leaflet and address of ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 642 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

BRAGOT, AND ALE GARLANDS AT THE FESTIVAL INN: Candle-making in Glasgow: Music by Typewriter

... held in London's East End. The Festival Inn replaces the Grundy Arms, which was destroyed by bombs in the war and stands in the model town known as the Lansbury Scheme. HOISTING THE ALE GARLAND AT THE FESTIVAL INN, POPLAR, IN TOKEN OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 778 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Sketch-Book

... added nothing to her appearance, and was quite useless as a protection from the rain or the fierce rays of a London winter sun. But it was new, and all the women in the place were eyeing her with envy and malice. That, however, is a digression. My hat ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1850 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

Racing in Central Europe

... Rumania. It begins with an account of the institution of a Commercial State Society (formed) to govern racing and breeding on new lines. It appears that by mid- July, 1949, profits shown were not sufficient, and that all prize money was cut by 50 per cent ...

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... House, 1, New Oxford Street, London, W.C.I, together with the name and address of the person to whom the copies are to be sent, and enclosing the price of the subscription. Canada, £5. Elsewhere abroad, £5 5s. (to include the Christmas Number). NEW YORK TO ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2191 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs