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KATE KENNEDY RIDES AGAIN: Last Week's Procession Through St. Andrews

... [7 very r St. Andrews remembers Kate Kennedy an her uncle. Bishop Kennedy, founder of St. Salvi i s College and Chapel, which became in the fifteenth ntury a constituent part of the University. They irk ably take the major roles in the great procession of students impersonating those who in the past 500 years have played their part in the history of St. Andrews. This year the part of Kate ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 247 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE MARRIAGE MONTH: A Series of Personality Pictures from London, Glasgow, and other Cities

... THE MARRIAGE OF THE WEEK AT ST. MARGARET'S Miss Sharman Douglas, daughter of the United States Ambassador, leaving after the wedding of Mr. C. C. C. Bridge and Miss P. A. Dunne lib* ----4 fG*. 5- ROME MISS GUSSIE MORAN AND PAT DI CICCO AT CIAMPO AIRPORT The lawn-tennis player and the Hollywood executive on arrival in Rome. They denied they were engaged. Miss Moran told the Press I shall not ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 463 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

PEOPLE: SOME PERSONALITIES IN THE WORLD'S NEWS

... P PO P I F SOME PERSONALITIES 1 U 1 U U IN THE WORLD'S NEWS 1. FOURSCORE AND FIVE YEARS AFTER: On April 9, 1865, the great Confederate Army, under General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to General Ulysses Grant, the Federal Comman der-in-Chief, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and to all intents and purposes the American Civil War was at an end. On April 1 6, 1 950, Major- General Ulysses S. ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 924 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Photographs 

MOUNTING TENSION IN BERLIN: AND AN INFLAMMATORY COMMUNIST SPEECH IN FRANKFURT

... jwtc\ M _ ilflBBMBliBinMMaii -fr'-r'-.-u.s.. MAX REIMANN THE WEST GERMAN COMMUNIST LEADER AND MEMBER OF THE BONN PARLIAMENT, PAYS A VISIT TO EAST BERLIN Left-- An overhead view of the Potsdamer Platz during the meeting which Reimann addressed, and at which he attacked Chancellor Adenauer whom he declared was selling out Germany to the Anglo-American Imperialists. The western side of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 452 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FESTIVAL PROGRESS: Developments on the South Bank Exhibition Site, and in Battersea Park

... pTestival of Britain preparations are going ahead steadily on the South Bank site, and now progress is being made in the conversion of part of Battersea Park for the amusement section of the exhibition. To the people of Battersea and Chelsea, who use the park to such an extent in spring, summer and autumn, and enjoy in parti cular the delights of the riverside walk, the operations of the ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 411 | Page: Page 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

APRIL DAYS IN PARK AND COUNTRY: A New Wood; the Hop Stringers; and the Pointer Club Field Trials

... MOP. ED FOR RICHMOND PARK-- AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AT WORK IN PRINCE CHARLES'S NEY Men from the Ministry of Agriculture (Surrey Division) preparing to sow seed e new wood which has been named Prince Charles's Spinney by the Ministry of Works, wood, which covers 10 acres to the west of Robin Hood Gate, consists of about 0 trees, of which over half are oaks. Further trees are to be planted in the ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 287 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HISTORY IS MADE AT WESTMINSTER: INAUGURATING THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS

... HISTORY IS MADE AT WESTMINSTER INAUGURATING THE NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS The opening of the new House of Commons Chamber, despite the pageantry of the Westminster Hall ceremonial, also had the nature of a family gathering, partly by reason of the King's speech, which was couched in terms of moving simplicity, but because of the presence of Commonwealth representatives, the Speakers of oversea ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 359 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FIRE IN THE ORONSAY: The New Liner Damaged in Dock

... FIRE IN THE ORONSAY The New Liner Damaged in Dock The Oronsay, being built at a cost of £3,500,000 for the Orient Steam Navigation Company by Vickers- Armstrong Ltd. at Barrow, was lying in the fitting-out berth at Buccleuch Dock when flames were seen to be issuing from her No. 2 hold. The fire started in some insulated material in the hold and the fumes were so bad that the firemen had to ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 210 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

DROPPING INTO NORTH KOREA: How the Paratroops Clinched the Issue

... DROPPING INTO NORTH KOREA How the Paratroops Clinched the Issue HOW THE AMERICAN PARATROOPS CUT OFF THE COM MUNIST LINE OF RETREAT IN NORTH KOREA Parachutists falling to earth during their large-scale attack behind the Red lines north of the 38th Parallel. General MacArthur j personally supervised the operation from his own transport I plane. This jump took place 23 miles north of Pyongyang. I ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 145 | Page: Page 13 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

NEWS PICTURES FROM THE UNITED STATES: FROM A HURRICANE IN FLORIDA TO A CALIFORNIAN FIRST NIGHT

... NEWS PICTURES FROM THE UNITED STATES FROM A HURRICANE IN FLORIDA TO A CALIFORNIAN FIRST NIGHT HURRICANE WINDS SWEEP ACROSS BISCAYNE BAY The coast at Miami, Florida, lashed by a 1 10-m.p.h. gale accompanied by driving rain. All emergency services were mustered when warning of the gale was issued in good time by weather experts on the hurricane's track ADRIFT IN A GULF OF MEXICO STORM This ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 342 | Page: Page 21 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

RED LETTER DAY AT PLUSCARDEN: TWO NEW BENEDICTINES ARE RECEIVED INTO THE ORDER

... RED LETTER DAY AT PLUSCARDEN TWO NEW BENEDICTINES ARE RECEIVED INTO THE ORDER Fourteen monks from the Benedic- I tines of Prihknash Abbey, near I Gloucester, have started a twenty-five- I year task in restoring the 700-year- I old ruined Pluscarden Priory, near I Elgin, Scotland. It is their hope that I when the work has been completed, I the old Priory will once again be a I flourishing ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 600 | Page: Page 28, 29 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

Old Shops of Princess Mary Court: AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE OLD ENGLISH STREET IN CASTLE MUSEUM, YORK

... Old Shops of Princess Mary Court AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO THE OLD ENGLISH STREET IN CASTLE MUSEUM, YORK THIS IS PRINCESS MARY COURT: It is the latest extension to the Old English Street in York's Castle Museum. It has just been opened by the Princess Royal. MB f 11 mr THE CORDWAINER'S SHOP: The shop is named after William Hornby, who became Sheriff of York in 1807. He was a Master Cordwainer. ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs