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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1949

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Revellers At Bondi Ball

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

In a happy mood at the Bondi Surf Club's fancy dress ball to welcome the New Year last night, pretty Betty Brant, in a colorful sarong, is being carried by Harry O'Brien…

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Revellers At Bondi Ball

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

In a happy mood at the Bondi Surf Club's fancy dress ball to welcome the New Year last night, pretty Betty Brant, in a colorful sarong, is being carried by Harry O'Brien…

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Revellers At Bondi Ball

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

In a happy mood at the Bondi Surf Club's fancy dress ball to welcome the New Year last night, pretty Betty Brant, in a colorful sarong, is being carried by Harry O Brien…

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Revellers At Bondi Ball

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 3

In a happy mood at the Bondi Surf Club's fancy dress ball to welcome the New Year last night, pretty Betty Brant, in a colorful sarong, is being carried by Harry O'Brien…

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Chiming

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Chiming

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 7

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Chiming

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Chiming

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Spirit Of China "Dragon Fangs," by Claire and William Band.— George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London. "The Strain of Harmony," by Bernard Martin.—William Heinemann Ltd., London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 6

A RHYME for children which deserves more attention describes how wise men from Hindustan—all of them blind—were…

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Bib and Bub Words Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 3

[?] had a little boat; out but it wouldn't float. "We're sinking fast!" said Bib with a cry Then up came a fish with a hungry eye…

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The Right Pictures for Your Wall

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 3

Individual as a woman's hat and a man's tie should be the pictures you hang on your walls. Make a habit of choosing your own. YOU may not be an artist now, nor ever…

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Theatre crowd sees city fire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 2

Several thousand theatregoers last night packed the George Street entrance to Wynyard station when a fire swept…

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Holiday shows in the local theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 27

THE Tivoli's revue, Take a Bow; the Minerva's play, A Kiss For Cinderella; and that Tivoli panto,…

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On the ball Union players not interested

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 17

ANY move by English Rugby League clubs to comb Australian Rugby Union teams for talent is…

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First release pictures of world's most notorious woman

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 3

SADIST [?]se Koch, whose life sentence has been reduced to four years, with her husband-one-time lover, Black Guard Colonel Karl Koch. Koch, former commandant of Nazi horror concentration camp, Buchenwald, was shot by his own party for grand larceny. Use is reputed to have selected tattooed prisoners, had them killed to make lampshades from their skins…

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Leader of the Band

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 9

DRUM MAJOR of Scots College pipe band, Colin Oag, at the Highland Gathering at the Showground at the weekend…

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley No Sermons

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 11

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Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 11

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