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... ball was his wife, Mr. Frank Strawson, chairman of the Jesters, a very famous squash club, and Mrs. Strawson, a former Wimbledon tennis player. It was Mr. Radford's wise idea that the ballroom should be lit by candles which spluttered attractively on every ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1281 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

ALAS! NO TEARING TANTRUM

... pass this over to the anthropologists. Forward, Mr. Geoffrey Gorer. Show hats, please. A PARTY FOR WIMBLEDON TENNIS PLAYERS THE reception for Wimbledon tennis players given by Dr. S. Leonard Simpson and the Committee of the Simpson Services Club is now an ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2045 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

SCOTTISH ASIDES

... where the strippet baa's were so large and tasty that, with care, I one was made to last the whole two miles home. After Wimbledon, tennis is of little interest to me. I found the sight of white cotton frocks and eye- p shades on a frosty autumn morn ing slightly ...

Published: Wednesday 05 October 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1594 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs