... With the G.R.s of the Turf The Gallant Band of Gentlemen Riders Who Risk Life and Limb in the Pursuit of Steeplechase Thrills By NOEL THOMPSON THEY call them G.R.s in turf parlance, and when a person gets a nickname, no matter who he is or what he does, it means he is popular. G.R. should be expanded to gentleman rider, which refers to that gallant band who risk necks, collar bones, arms, ...

... Military Chemists in the Making The Work of the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank CARRYING OUT A CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CANNED RATION: A sergeant of the Royal Army Medical Corps at work in the laboratories of the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, S.W.1, where men with an aptitude for scientific work of this nature receive an intensive course of training, punctuated by examinations, ...

... 4,800 BABIES CRIPPLES BOYS d- GIRLS NOW IN OUR HOMES 42,000 CHILDREN ALREADY PROVIDED PHD Please Help Bankers Barclays Ltii. JESSIE is just one of more than 1,600 children received last year. Motherless, fatherless, unwanted, cruelly- treated, they came to the 8ocioty for a home. WILL YOU PLEASE THINK OF THE HUNDREDS OF NEEDY CHILDREN WHO STILL NEED A HELPING HAND? Gifts gratefully received bv ...

... Russian Treaty Talks Soviet Ambassador Maisky B Negotiates With Lord Halifax and M. Bonnet LORD HALIFAX AT THE FRENCH WAR OFFICE: The British Foreign Minister being greeted by Commandant Beze; ier as he arrived with Sir Eric Phipps (centre), the British Ambassador in Paris, to meet Premier Daladier nd i Foreign Minister Bonnet and discuss with them the drafting of proposals for the three-power ...

... Summer Sport HELEN II TRAINS WITH BIG BILL: Miss Jacobs and Tilden pictured at 1 the Melbury Club, Kensington, where the latter is coaching the former in preparation for her Wimbledon bid. Tilden retains all of his old fire, despite his forty six years, and only a few days ago he beat Vines I THE MASTER As an amateur Donald Budge dominated Wimbledon, standing head and shoulders above every ...

... ROYALTY AT BLUE PETER'S DERBY The Duke and Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester enjoying the sunshine in the paddock at Epsom before last week's big race. The Princess Royal is quite the keenest of all Royal racegoers and is frequently to be seen at many of the northern meetings near her home. Queen Mary did not attend on account of her motor accident ...

... The N ew Austin Ten An Appraisal of a Neat and Roomy Model By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (C/erk of the Course, BrooMancfs ONLY a few weeks ago the Austin Motor Company introduced an entirely new 8-h.p. model and now they have followed this up with an entirely new 10-h.p. car. It must almost be a record for a leading manufacturer to introduce two entirely new cars in such a short ...

... Hermits of the Arctic: Traders, Trappers, and Prospectors WTo Choose to Live Lonely Lives in the Frozen North, Most of them Developing a Distinct Aversion to Civilisation The Arctic gets you. YOU can find plenty of white men somewhere in Canada's far north, isolated from the outside world, practically hermits, and some of them living so remotely as to be hermits. Some of them see other white ...

... Feminine Fashio NS AT THE R.A. Exhibition of Scottish Art Some delightful por traits of both beautiful and beauti fully-dressed ladies are to be found amongst the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings in the Scottish Exhibition at Burlington House. It is amazing to contrast the styles of sleeves from one period to another-- the puffed and bouffant sleeves of LADY KATHRINE ERSKINE This ...

... THOS. COOK SON LTD THOS. COOK SON LTD Upon either bank of the Nile is imperish- ably written in pyramid, in tomb and temple the history of ancient Egypt. H t f\ f l/\ P Memphis, with its alabaster Sphinx the strange step Pyramid of Sakkara the in credible temples of Luxor and Karnak the Valley of the Tombs of Kings (circa 1700 n P fi Yf fit B.C.) the tomb of that beauteous wife of Rameses, ...

... Uf f P The Growth of the Soviet Air Arm J IN- a Women Parachutists to the Fore A NEW ADDITION TO THE SOVIET AIR FORCE: A close-up of the engine nacelles and one wing of the latest type of Russian bomber which is being manufactured within the Union in larae quantities. The present size of the Russian Air Force is something of a mystery A DOUBLE-BARRELLED MACHINE GUN in use in a Russian heavy ...

... Washington Jay I A HIGH LIGHT OF THE WASHINGTON VISIT was the Congressional reception in i the Capitol, where the King and Queen met many notabilities in American i political life. The Queen is seen shaking hands with Representative Leo Kocialowski, of Illinois, while the King is talking with Representative A. Leonard Allen. On the left are William Bankhead, Speaker of the House, Lady Lindsay, ...