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COUNTRY WEEKEND

... This miniature wardrobe has been chosen with a special eye to the Friday -to- Monday country visitor. The suit, coat, raincoat and dress with matching jacket are all from Wetherall, as are all the accessories, and are planned to work in ivith each other to make different outfits Left This long-jacketed suit is in a subtle shade of sage green squared with a very pale blue stripe. This suit has ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: Page 36, 37 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S DANCE

... MORE than seven hundred guests enjoyed this very successful dance, of which the Marquesa Casa Maury was chairman. It was' held in aid of the Feathers Clubs. I Above, left: Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Patrick de Laszlo and their children Stephanie and Damon. Above, right: James and Michael Denison-Pender. Left Miss Glenna Critchley and Mr. Peter Beck. A. V. Swacbe. ...

Published: Wednesday 11 January 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 64 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

FLIGHT TO VIENNA

... -j; WE flew from Prestwick in Pan American's new D.C.70, which has just been brought into service and created a transatlantic record on its first flight. There is surprisingly little engine noise, and, lying back in a tip-up seat, one feels insulated from the real world by the new cloud-world that lies above it. We had climbed from the gloom of a grey day up through the cloud mists, and now ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1213 | Page: Page 36, 37 | Tags: Photographs 

IT'S INTUITION THAT COUNTS

... Mrs. Dorothy Hartman, diminutive and fragile as a Dresden figure, says it is woman's intuition that has served her best in her successful career as top executive in the motor business. by JUDY FALLON A WOMAN who is chairman and managing director of a car firm would suggest a picture of a steel-muscled racing-car driver, with windswept hair, and an air of being more at home in overalls than any ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1132 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

WE WELCOME THE ADVANCED DRIVING TEST.

... WE WELCOME THE ADVANCED DRIVING TEST says WILLIAM HARTLEY A GREAT deal is being said just now about the scheme for an Advanced Driving Test. The Institute of Advanced Motorists, a non-profit-making organisation, has been formed with the object of establishing among road-users a safe system of driving with concentration as the keynote. Those who offer themselves for the test will certainly have ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1702 | Page: Page 58, 59 | Tags: Photographs 

BARON TAKES TEA WITH THE LADY DOUGLAS OF KIRTLESIDE

... BARON TAKES TEA WITH THE EADY DOUGLAS OF KIRTLESIDE The Lady Douglas of Kirtleside, wife of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, G.C.B., M.C., D.F.C., poses for a characteristic study by eminent photographer, Baron, in the sitting room of their modern flat in London. Lord Douglas was Com mander-in-Chief of Fighter and Coastal Commands during the war. Later he was British ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: Page 63 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

INTRODUCTIONS IN LONDON: Earl Attlee takes his Seat in the Lords; Dr. Campbell becomes a Bishop and Dr. Wand a ..

... Introductions in London Earl Attlee takes his Seat in the Lords Dr. Campbell becomes a Bishop and Dr. Wand a Canon and the Archbishop of Canterbury meets an Archbishop from Greece A NEW ENTRANCE FOR AN OLD PARLIAMENTARIAN Earl Attlee arrives to enter the House of Lords for the first time in his thirty-three years in Parliament. On his seventy-third birthday, he was introduced there. RCHBISHOPS ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 253 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

A FLAME FROM THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER: The Olympic Torch is Carried from Rome to Cortina d'Ampezzo

... A Flame from THE Temple of Jupiter The Olympic Torch is Carried from Rome to Cortina d'Ampezzo Tn the ruins of the ancient Roman Temple of Jupiter, the Lord of the Gods, on Capitol Hill, the Olympic Torch was lit by the Mayors of Rome and Cortina d'Ampezzo and handed over to a relay of well-known Italian athletes to be carried to the stadium at Cortina, where the Winter Games are being held. ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 393 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SOUTHERN RHODESIA--CHALLENGE TO INDUSTRIALISTS: Market Potentials and Natural Resources Attract Industry to a ..

... Southern Rhodesia- Challenge to Industrialists Market Potentials and Natural Resources Attract Industry to a Growing Country This month, and until the end of March, British industrialists and representatives of manufacturing and finance institutions will be meeting Mr. P. C. Aldridge. Mr. Aldridge is director of the Federation of Rhodesian Indus tries, who is at present on a ten-week visit to ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1611 | Page: Page 17, 18, 19, 20 | Tags: Photographs 

UNITED SOCIETY OF ARTISTS

... THE * EXHIBITION AT THE R.B.A. GALLERIES Miss Deirdre Henty-Creer shows Mr. Hugh Pont her oil painting Sunday at the Serpentine, during the preview of the Society's thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition. Miss Henty-Creer is a member of the Council of the Society. Works shown include water-colours, drawings, miniatures, and sculpture. Mr. Terence Cuneo is exhibiting his large canvas Her Majesty ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 78 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

AN ANCIENT CLOCK RESTORED

... SALISBURY CATHEDRAL'S OLD CLOCK TICKS AGAIN Mr. T. R. Robinson, the horologist in charge of restoration, winds the Cathedral's fourteenth-century clock, which now works for the first time in seventy years. Watching is the Bishop of Salisbury, the Right Rev. W. Louis Anderson, who rededicated the clock. Made in 1386, it is the oldest in the world remaining in almost original condition. It is on ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 76 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs