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... The grand staircase has gone the way of the grand manner, escalator is the word today. And schweppervescence too. Schweppes quietly lending its name to the language concentrates on proving that whether we walk or ride upstairs schweppervescence lasts the whole drink through. ...

... he war my morning mail contained a letter from Mr. Stanley Rossitter, the chairman of directors of Messrs. Rossitter, Sons & Co., the well-known publishing house. Mr. Rossitter wrote that they were planning a series dealing with the lives of great English soldiers whose claims to remembrance had been almost completely over looked by the Muse of History. He suggested that I should undertake the ...

... P E,w Wc Q dime By Ferdinand Tuohy DON'T take the title too literally. In the United States such use of dime, the sixpenny piece, conveys doing things at their cheapest, and that's what many a young American-- boy and girl, as they continue to be referred to until verging on their thirties-- is planning to do in Europe this year of mid-century. A descending scale of income-groups is ...

... On The Spot A Short Story By Michael Hastings ESTEEMED friend, said Ku Wei, you look like a man with a load of sorrow and insufficient family to carry it for him. Wang Fu, sitting on the bench outside the inn, sighed. I was contem plating those mounds on the hill slope, he ex plained. No doubt they mark the last resting- places of the ancestors of these hard-working, pover ty-afflicted ...

... Agatha, A Career-Minded Girl, Who Made The Dragon's Dream Come True By Jacques Gillies AGATHA was looking for Wog. She went out of the hotel and walked along the rock promontory. Stepping easily between the sun-bathing mattresses (part of the hotel service) she arrived at the springboard. Wog was asleep. He was asleep in the shadow of the springboard, his sun burned figure loosely coiled. A ...

... broached the matter again because I thought a week's quiet in these surround ings would be very good for you after London, and you are certainly now look ing rested and extremely fit. To-morrow morning we '11 really get down to the business, and if ten o'clock is not too early for you, I '11 be waiting for you in my study. It was during our talk that morning that he startled me by that most ...

... The L ong Arm The Plot Of The Crime Story Seemed Improbable And Even More Improbable Was The Way In Which The Detective Unmasked The Crime By Ralph Arnold GOOD, said old Mr. Hither, excellent. And the next report, Marcus? the next report, Marcus Green began, is also from Mr. Catch- pole. Flowers in a White Vase, bv Arthur Abbotswood. I spent two whole days,' Mr. Catchpole writes, 'on a ...

... jv Written by WARREN ARMSTRONG Almost everybody has read, or heard, at least one version of the strange story of a certain ship, found abandoned in mid- ocean, with a hot meal untouched, taste fully laid in her main cabin. Hundreds of possible explanations have been hazarded concerning the fate of her crew. Here are the facts. TO Fundy Bay sailormen who looked her over critically as she ...

... A Symphony Of j Wild Life By C. T. Stoneham IT was still dark when I left my Nairobi hotel and found the taxi waiting in the street, the native driver asleep inside. He had probably been there most of the night. I roused him, and within a minute of opening his eyes we were under weigh. The night was clear, full of stars, and warm as an English summer evening. In exactly ten minutes I was ...

... i\ \t\W Tm rr\ UH-n v\ \JH u/^figlA M huhm-* GAS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES A greater variety of electrical appliances will be in the shops this year. Prices may tend to rise, but not immediately. Improved cookers with visible radiant sheathed elements and Simmerstat heat control will be plentiful and available on hire purchase. Washing-machine supplies are increasing, including a smaller size ...

... THE economy keynote stands out among designs for 1950. Interchangeable ensembles give the answer to the problem of the standby suit or dress which tends to become monotonous as the months go by. The two Duet suits designed by Brenner renew the popular tartan theme with, in each case, a jacket and two skirts. At the top a red and green tartan suit alternates a straight skirt with a pleated one ...