... Annexing Antarctic Territory Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth and His Fan= tastic Bid for 430,000 Square Miles That Has Already Been Claimed SIXTY years ago when the European Powers were preparing to carve the rich brown roast of Africa, spitted on the Equator, there was much talk of spheres of influence, protectorates, and colonies; but it would have been thought absurd then that nations should ever ...

... All Eyes are on Vatican City: :r THE Vatican, the world's smallest territorial sovereignty, that inviolable city state set in the heart of Italy's capital and occupying only as much space as would be needed for an 18-hole golf course, is at the moment the centre of world-wide attention, for the choice of a new Pope is no purely spiritual matter solely affecting life in the great Roman Catholic ...

... THE WORLD SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS AT ZAKOPANE: A glimpse of the crowd, with the flags of many nations waving above, which gathered at this resort in the Tatra mountains, Poland, to watch internationally- famed skiers compete against each other. Above on left Zakopane's jumping hill and part of the new stadium where 30,000 spectators were able to watch the contests in comfort. Zakopane is becoming ...

... SCIENCE IN THE CLOUDS Work at Mount M/askington Observatory SOMETIMES IT IS 46 BELOW ZERO at the observatory on top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and it occasions no surprise when in one night a great coating of rime, such as this, collects round the pyrheliometer an instrument for testing the sun's heat and energy WATCHING THE CLOUDS ROLL BY: A member of the scientific staff at Mount ...

... CUGGESTIONS for J)PRING Country Checks |\J° wonder 1he girl above is smiling so happily. She is warm, her suit weighs next to nothing, and it could not be more pleasing nor more scrupulously tailored. It is a knitted suit at that, boldly checked in such luscious colours as wine and moonstone and silver, or, more conservatively, in such shades as nigger and green and beige, or grey and black ...

... NEW MOTORING THRILLS At 100 m.p.h. in the New 4^-litre Benilev By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. Clerk o I the Course, BrooMends) HAVING driven all kinds of motor cars during the past thirty years I was firmly convinced that I had experienced all the joys that motoring can give, but quite unexpectedly I discovered that I was wrong and that motoring still had thrills in it which I ...

... The Problems of Evacuation And Other Facets of Air Precautions SIR JOHN ANDERSON said on February 22 that the more every citizen had some understanding of the meaning and method of A.R.P. the better. Now that method is becoming more visible and he is not left quite so much to worry out his own idea of meaning, the task of the citizen is going to be easier. Perhaps he is too diffident to draw ...

... Preparing for the Papal r. rfTIAKI Ac,ivity in ,he r V^. I I I N Vatican Precincts PUTTING WHITE PAINT ON THE WINDOWS OF THE LOGGIA RAPHAEL: One of many precautions taken in order to ensure that the Cardinals would be completely shut off from the outside world while selecting the new Pope SCREENING OFF THE CONCLAVE AREA by erecting a temporary brick wall. Another of the many measures that ...

... BATTLING FOR THE PANAMA LIFE-LINE American Naval Manoeuvres Staged at the Eastward Approach to the Vital Canal BETWEEN TWO OCEANS: The aircraft carrier Lexington on left and the battleship Pennsylvania {above), two giant units of the U.S. fleet, seen In the Panama Canal. The canal is much in the news at the moment because plans are on foot to duplicate its lock system, thus ensuring that one ...

... HEADING FLORA'S DANCE A carpet of snowdrops beneath the trees at Witherslack Hall. Westmorland, tells that spring is once more approaching FISHING ON THE DART Captain R. Rendell and Mr. Henry Dagger trying their luck in Black Pool on the upper reaches of the Dart near Holne Chase ...

... Where They Use 200 MILES OF BANDAGE EVERY YEAR Some Facts and Figures Regarding the Immense Cost of Running a Great Hospital WHAT does it feel like to be running a hospital? I asked the head of one of the most famous hospitals in the world. Rather like being a Prime Minister without being able to rely on income tax, was the reply, and I cannot think of a better simile. Without income tax ...

... WHEN FRANCE GOES SKUING FOR THE WELL-DRESSED SKIER: A visitor to the French winter sports resort of Megeve clad in trousers of conical cut and a neat jacket of the type that is being widely worn this year SOPHISTICATED FASHION ON THE NURSERY SLOPES: Smartly-clad women visitors at Megeve wearing fur capes and conically-cut trousers. Fashions play a big part in the life of this increasingly ...