... straight and waited until the psychological moment to deliver his challenge from behind. The unfortunate rider of Vieux Manoir used, so we thought, unnecessary pressure on his gallant mount at the point when he was travelling so easily that he could well ...

... people called it the Orient Express; even if you have never travelled in this once-upon-a-time most glamorous train in the world you have no doubt glimpsed her as you landed at Calais. There were the conductors in chocolate colour uniforms standing by ...

... from the U.S. naval officers next to them, that they were members of the U.S. Embassy staff-- even although, I reflected, their ties were not red. Their ties, in fact, were a glorious mixture of yellows, heliotropes, greens and pinks. Close to us were standing ...

... France, moored by the gilded Alexander III Bridge, in the centre of Paris, prior to sailing away on a lone voyage around the world in his self-built 30-ft. sloop Four Winds. The tone is set by the presence of the president of the Compagnie Generale Tran ...

... into the ballroom, they first stopped' to talk to Sir Alexander and Lady Theodosia Cadogan, who have just returned from the U.S., where he has been Permanent Representative of H.M. Govern ment to the U.N.A. The King partnered the Queen to lead off the ...

... side In other days, of course, there was no festive message from the Inland Revenue Department reminding the citizen that England expected him to do his duty on January I. Nevertheless, despite his dream and his adventures with the ghosts, Scrooge should ...

... vote for Harold Peabody, your Liberal candidate. Have you voted Hurry Hurry Nine more minutes. Nine more minutes to save England for Harold Peabody, your Liberal candidate. The last vote is cast, and the ballot-boxes are carried to the town hall or the ...

... Arnold Lunn might be de scribed as the father of the Kandahar, but unfortunately he had to miss the dinner as he was away in the U.S. fulfilling a lecture tour. He sent a very amusing letter, which was read by Mr. Bob Handley, hon. secretary of the Club, who ...

... such a lovely home at Highgate she never goes away in the summer when resorts are crowded. She had just had one of the young U.S. tennis players from the Yale and Harvard teams staying with her, and no doubt he had thoroughly enjoyed the fine tennis courts ...

... in the United Kingdom. This event is also a splendid shop-window for Northern Ireland, enabling visitors from all over the world to see every aspect of the country's biggest industry, agriculture. Besides the exhibits of livestock, there was also a display ...

... Commission on Population coincides with that which I have held for years, apparently alone against the world. In Britain, it has been dinned into us, we must keep the birth-rate in excess of the death-rate handsomely, or all 's lost. We can't feed them ...

... goes back to the U.S. in the autumn to go through college. Also Mr. Alan Holmes, who told me he had just arrived from America to spend his summer holiday with his family in Europe. His father, Mr. Julius Holmes, is Counsellor at the U.S. Embassy here. The ...