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... THE ART OF BEING A PASSENGER Bad Passengers are Frequently the Cause of Bad Driving By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (CM of the Course Bfook/ands) JOURNALISTS who write about motoring matters and motorists themselves frequently discuss whether a certain person is a good or a bad driver. Many opinions are expressed, some of them diametrically opposed, and many heated arguments can ...
... February the Ideal Winter Sports Month When Drifts Disappear, there are no Invisible Obstacles Besetting the Skier's Path, and the Sun is Mounting in the Heavens THE first thrill of eagerness to get to the winter sports is over. The season comes in with a rush just before Christmas, and the snow-on-the-mountains effect is the perfect setting for festivities associated with that holi day period ...
... A London Newsletter 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, January 11, 1939. THE PRESIDENT'S WARN ING.-- Mr. Roosevelt's anxiously- awaited message did. if I mistake not. carry with him in warm agreement all sane elements (90 per cent, at least) of America and of the democratic nations. He said with frankness, dignity, and strength and with no petty recrimination or bitter mud-slinging, the ...
... Daladier Welcomed in Corsica and Tunisia Dramatic Scenes during the French Premier's Historic Round of Med ferranean Visits CORSICA'S GREETINGS M. Daladier pictured in company with girls in national dress on arrival at Bastia on the first day of his momentous Mediterranean tour during which he was accorded a series of enthusiastic demonstrations of loyalty _vl A PALM TREE PROVIDED A POINT OF ...
... PEARL BUCK RECEIVES 1938 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE This was the impressive scene in the Concert Hall in Stockholm as Pearl Buck, the celebrated American authoress, who is seated on the left hand side of the platform, appeared to receive the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature from the hands of King Gustave V of Sweden (centre fore ground, back to camera). Miss Buck, who has spent much of her life ...
... Air Transport at The New Year The Flying-Boat Challenge to the World's Ocean Crossings By C. D. PALMER AIR transport progress to-day is largely directed towards the establishment of regular services over the ocean routes. Great Britain has before her the development of the North and South Atlantic routes; the Tasman Sea crossing, linking New Zealand by air to the mother country through Aus ...
... Youth Answers the Call of the Sea The Work of Britain's Sea Cadet Corps By NOEL THOMPSON AS Lord Nuffield, now on his way to Aus tralia and South Africa, walks the deck of his liner, it is quite likely that he will pass a smart young seaman. If he pauses for a moment and asks, Were you in the Sea Cadet Corps? and receives an affirmative answer he will be entitled to smile happily to himself. ...
... LONDON SEES THE COLOUR FILM OF THE MIKADO A Special Section of The Sphere Showing Episodes From the Screen Version of the Famous Gilbert and Sullivan Opera THREE LITTLE MAIDS FROM SCHOOL The butterfly daintiness of Peep-Bo (Kathleen Naylor), Yum-Yum (Jean Colin), and Pitti- Sing (Elizabeth Paynter) is one of the many delightful features of first film version of the Gilbert and Sullivan ...
... China's Vital Backdoors: How She Brings' in Her War Supplies The Southern Entrances I With Her Great Ports in the Hands of Japan, China has no Option but to Look i Westward to the Old Trade Routes China, with her bach to the wall and her busy seaboard entirely in Japan's possession, has of recent months faced economic strangulation at the hands of her persistent invaders, being unable to ...
... Through Chin A'S Backdoors-ii The Northern Entrances and the Link with Siberia coaches in charge of a doctor, and they start their journey. I At night the train, with all lights off and going dead slow, I passes the dangerous places along the Yellow River. When the enemy obtain the range the train is speeded up and 1 rushed through. On moonlight nights the trains usually K do not run. During ...
... M. Daladier Receives The Order of the Blood The Scene at the Palace at Bardo as the French Premier was about to be Decorated by the Bey of Tunis At Bardo. seventeenth-century palace of the Beys and scene in 1881 of the signing of the treaty by which France established the Tunis protectorate, the French Prime Minister was received on January 4 by the present occupant of the throne of Tunis. ...
... Supporting the Sterling: How the Exchange Equalisation Fund, Most Secretive of Organisations, Keeps Price Fluctuations Within Healthy Limits THE largest gold transaction in history has taken place during the past week. Gold to the value of £350,000,000 has been trans ferred from the Bank of England to the Exchange Equalisation Fund. There is enough romance and mystery in such an operation to ...