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... A. LEJEUNE (Films) ALAN MELVILLE (Personalities) J. C. TREW1N (Plays) RUPERT CROFT-COOKE (Books) J, WIMBLEDON.-- The Wimbledon Tennis Racket is exposed by John Olliff on two pages on another page will be found a spirited cari cature of Jean Borotra by ...

Published: Wednesday 22 June 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: 4 | Tags: Other 

(G) I K^yur Ci/ octa

... 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 

Our Motley Notes

... . (Dimitri, incidentally, is not only one of the most loyal and devoted servants in any Royal house, but is a former Wimbledon tennis player, a bridge player who was the terror of Crockford's, and is fortunate in the possession of one of the loveliest ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1944 | Page: 7 | Tags: Comic strips 

MARIEGOLD IN SOCIETY

... ball which the Dowager Lady Glen- tanar gave for her grandson, young Lord Waleran, in order to celebrate his return I. Wimbledon tennis balls being very sensitive to heat, all the really fine players are taking ice-boxes with them. Mariegold's Rigid Air ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2263 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations