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A SEAT TO SPARE

... the curious outbreak of writing about the Tichborne case, that classic imposture of mid-Victorian times? A month ago, after (rumour says) half a century's MISS ALTHEA GIBSON, new holder of the Ladies' Singles title, seen walking on to the Centre Court before ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1181 | Page: 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

INSIDE Sotheby's are

... said once more to be looking thoughtfully towards their only iignificant rivals in the art-auction business, Christie's. Rumours of takeovers, imalgamations, schemes for limited co-operation, having quietened for some years, ire once more flying. Peter ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2194 | Page: 3, 4, 5 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

THE LAWRENCE LEGEND: Foreign sensations and obituaries about an aircraftman who is very much alive

... German and Russian publications said Lawrence had entered Afghanistan in disguise to prepare revolution. These circumstantial rumours spread to Afghanistan's and northern India's over heated bazaars, especially such corners of them as dealt in Soviet Russian ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1931
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1969 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Gossip of the Hour

... will shortly be able to do the imperial scorching on a new track at Tsarskoye Selo. Spy Mania. Our nervous neighbours across the Channel seem to be suffering from spy mania. They have lately locked up several inquisitive Englishmen on suspicion, though ...

Published: Wednesday 01 June 1904
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4524 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... restful for an invalid's nerves absolute quiet, the doctors said. Co the ever-faith ful automobile had to be requisi tioned to spy out the land of Sussex-by- the-Sea, and I had no cause to com plain of lack of comfort in a 16-22 Napier landaulette with an ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1285 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

Foreign News: THE CZAR'S HEALTH

... the Nations as Alexander III., the political is apt to override the personal side of the subject. Directly, therefore, the rumours of the Czar's serious condition were confirmed, one thought rose uppermost in most minds. Should the Russian Sovereign's strong ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1894
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1286 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

MYSELF AT THE PICTURES: The Question of Standard

... subtle of my readers may have gathered, I disliked it very much. Tt really seems as though there might be something in the rumour about the slump in film-going. Why shouldn't there be? The cinema during the last year or so has shown, with one or two exceptions ...

Published: Wednesday 28 July 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1269 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

NEWS SUMMARY: INTERNATIONAL

... Powers, the U.2 pilot, and Frederic Pryor, an American student detained in East Germany, for Colonel Rudolf Abel, the Soviet spy sen tenced in New York in 1957 to thirty years' imprisonment for espionage. Powers was shot down over Russia on May 1, 1960 ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1170 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

HONG KONG SUCCEEDS SHANGHAI: As the Focal Point of European Activity in the Eastern World

... cauldron of Chinese finance, strategy, in trigue, plot, and counterplot. It is the centre of J apanese and international spy and counter-spy activ ities, the hunting- ground of aircraft, arms, and munitions salesmen from all parts of the world, the hiring-place ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1904 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS TO KNOW

... nating between peaks of hope and valleys of doubt. London's moods have been now grave, now gay, according to each breeze of rumour from horses'-- and other-- mouths. But, underlying it all, there has been a constant calmness of temperature, very different ...

Published: Wednesday 06 September 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1325 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORLD of the FILM

... to direct it (you will remem ber he made Seventh Heaven and many other really fine films, including Bad Girl) over here to spy out the land. \T ow, apparently, Mr. Borzage believes i\ in playing safe in this case and I don't blame him and so he arranged ...

Published: Wednesday 11 May 1932
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1353 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

NEWS FROM EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS: A Pictorial Survey of Foreign Affairs

... had twice changed his nationality and had been deported from Britain to Austria. Evidence indicated he had H been acting as a spy, for the West. Frankey s and Abel's offence is believed to be unique in American military history. Their sentences are to be ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1398 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs