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At The Picture

... background act. By whichever name, rice-workers' hostels in Italy, D.P. camps in Germany, or army huts in France look much of a muchness; though the American Army quarters are per ceptibly the most comfortable. Relations between fact and fiction are. however ...

Published: Wednesday 15 March 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1315 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

Robbery Up To Date

... choosing as if he had an intelligence system to guide him, and the certainty of quick sale. Over to Lisbon and we find two army officers being sentenced to many years prison or exile (they had the choice and got more of the latter) for robbing £400,000 ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2298 | Page: 11, 66, 68 | Tags: Illustrations 

Hope for Humans

... steadily fulfilling hope and sustaining belief. rr^HEY had begun their journey on April 28th. On July 30th they saw land the island of Puka-puka. Land An island We devoured it greedily with pur eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1955 | Page: 36, 37, 50 | Tags: Illustrations  Review 

The Story Of The Cross

... The Story Of The Cross By Frances Faure IT was a woman, the Empress Helena, who set out for the Holy Land in the year 325, with the full authority and blessing of the General Church Council to try and discover the remains of the true Cross, and she at ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1888 | Page: 27, 77, 78 | Tags: Illustrations 

Lid Off The Courts

... twenty- five million pounds annual bill for the administration of justice and a four million pounds salaries docket for Eng land's High Court judges. HIGH up over the main doorway of the Law Courts the intending plaintiff can see three figures on the left ...

On Rainbow Bridge: A Short Story

... The simple fact is, this woman's outsmarted him. Unless we help him now, he's sunk. He's beyond helping himself, poor chap. The truth of this, Sylvia says, was all too obvious at breakfast, pre pared by Uncle Malcolm's hired woman. The prospective bridegroom ...

GIRL OF THE OUTBACK

... then she said I could only tell you that if he stayed. Do you think he will Ellen laid a knife on the table with the air of a woman laying her last franc on the gaming table. I don't know, Martha. I 'm his mother, but I just don't know. Before she served ...

Queer Jobs In Freak Times

... to German artists designing the perfect transparent man as a mate for Lumena, the model transparent woman shown at Olympia last summer. The only woman men can see through cost £6,000 to make. Six and a quarter miles of wire, representing nerves and b ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2848 | Page: 16, 17, 58, 60 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Civilized Eskimo

... a child result from the temporary union its support is a matter for the woman's husband or for the community. No less practical are the Eskimo's views on infanticide (where a woman gives birth on a long hunting trip it ma}' be necessary to abandon the ...

Published: Monday 01 January 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2527 | Page: 27, 61, 62 | Tags: Illustrations 

SOME PORTRAITS IN PRINT: Being the lucubrations of your most; obedient scribe

... the Black Prince's archers defeated the army of John of France. We were an intrusive lot then. Down below Bordeaux, in country that looks as if the Cam- argue had wandered rather far west, so barren is the land, you come on Bayonne. Here the English ruled ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1951
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2048 | Page: 10, 11, 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

BECAUSE OF A WOMAN

... came to Vanico because of a woman. Curelle nodded approvingly. There is no better place to seek solace. I can appreciate your sorrow. Some time ago my wife left me. I am somewhat resigned now. I came here to find a woman, not get away from one, Edwards ...

The Colonel's Lady: Bandits make a thrilling attack on an army camp in Ismailia

... sort of emotional reaction. Even a woman like Mrs. Hurst would have been unashamed to show her feelings. Linda's calmness was dangerous. It meant that she must be making an immense effort to control herself, and that land of strain had a breaking point. ...