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title: Beauty Battles for Britain (Kay Stammers)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-beauty-battles-for-britain-1939/
description: A sports-page feature shows a large drawing of tennis player Kay Stammers mid-stroke, ringed by small comic panels (a sports editor, opponents.
section: Collection
---

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# Beauty Battles for Britain (Kay Stammers)

A sports-page feature shows a large drawing of tennis player Kay Stammers mid-stroke, ringed by small comic panels (a sports editor, opponents, a Wimbledon match) with captions on her looks and her semifinal results. The technique tell is weak: flattering, laudatory wording ('beautiful', 'glamour') presented as sports coverage, with no political aim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Kay STAMMERS...
BRITAIN'S BEAUTIFUL BID FOR INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HONORS------ MUST BATTLE OUR OWN MARVELOUS MARBLE IN THE WIMBLEDON FINALS TOMORROW....!
SPORTS EDITOR
WOT TH'--?!?--: "THE 4 MOST BEAUTIFUL LEGS IN SPORT FLASHED ACROSS WIMBLEDON'S FAMED CENTER COURT, AND LONG LASHES CARESSED A SOFT ENGLISH CHEEK ---AH! 40-LOVE!--- --NERTS---40,000 LOVE !"---
OH-OH! SERVES ME RIGHT FOR FORGETTING ANYBODY ELSE'S BACKHAND IS HER FOREHAND!
THERE SHOULD BE SOME WARM WORDS WINGING OVER THE ATLANTIC WHEN SCRIBES COVER THIS MATCH BETWEEN THE GLAMOUR GALS.....
--P'RAPS A BIT UNLIDYLIKE BUT AWFTER AWL--A POINT FER H'ENGLAND IS A POINT !
KAY'S COURT TECHNIQUE IS FULL OF "WIM, WIGOR AND WITALITY"......
SARAH FABYAN LOST A TOUGH MATCH TO THE ENGLISH LASSIE WITH THE SOUTHPAW SWING.......
VEDDY SODDY OL' THING--AS THEY SAY OVER HERE---BUT I'VE A DATE TO SIP A SPOT OF ORANGE PEKOE !...
ALICE HAD'EM IN WONDERLAND WHEN SHE FLATTENED THE HUSKY SPERLING--6-0, 6-0, IN RECORD TIME TO GAIN THE FINALS.......
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← KdF-Schiff "Robert Ley", Jungfernfahrt: Adolf Hitler an Bord](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kdf-schiff-robert-ley-jungfernfahrt-1939/) [Title card from a captured Japanese newsreel: the Emperor commends the Xuzhou campaign (May 1938) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xuzhou-imperial-commendation-newsreel-card-1938/)

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