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FROM LONDON TO SOUTHAMPTON

... was actually used by Captain Scott) on a tour of London to advertise the Polar Exhibition which is being held on Scott's old Discovery, now the property of the Boy Scouts' Association for training Sea Scouts. The exhibition of equipment used in polar surveys ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1275 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Skying the Ball--and Other Matters

... head-on collision with a big motor-bus. Hogan, as we have seen, looked far from well when he visited us this past autumn as captain of the Ryder Cup Team. Mangrum's accident appears to have resulted from a car accident and a difference of opinion between ...

THE EMPIRE THAT DECLINES TO GROW LESS: What the Portuguese have they Hold

... farther they reckon that, fro 9 self-interest, the Chinese Reds will elect to keep this window on the outside world in Western hands. So many useful things can pass through it. As envoi to Britain's oldest ally, I cannot resist quoting this from Colonial ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1852 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

With the Jumpers

... finding it As to the Queen Eliza beth 'chase at Hurst Park, won by Monaveen, I think it leaves us just where we were before. Monaveen jumped the best in the world, and has obviously plenty of pace, but he had only 10 st., and he is not likely to get anything ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1383 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... more so than the U.S. President's annual report on the state of the Union. A very different state to that of 1900. Then, self-sufficiency, isolation from Europe, no desire to rank among the Great Powers of Europe. Now, the 1st World Power, richer and ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2114 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Genetics and the Farmer

... authority as Dr. L. M. Winters, Professor of Animal Breeding at Minnesota University. The title of Dr. Winters' address was World Possibilities of Recent Developments in Breeding and Feeding in the U.S.A., and he first described the phenomenal success ...