... Howard Coster. F.R.S.A. Since his appointment as Under-Secretary of State for Air, in May 1938, Captain Balfour has set a standard which other Ministers will find difficult to follow. He has piloted the Hurricane, the Spitfire, and other modern single-seater fighters, yet his Brevet dates back to 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross and Bar whilst serving with the Royal Flying Corps, ...

... The Royal Academy, 1939 Four Portraits of Famous Men Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, by Oswald Birley The Lord Chancellor by Gerald Kelly, R.A. Lord McGoivan, by Harold Knight, R.A. Hilaire Belloc, by James Gunn The summer exhibi tion of the Royal Academy of Arts was seen by the critics and the press and the chosen few last week, and is now open to the public. The change of the presidency (from Sir ...

... Comings and Goings Journeys' Ends and Lovers' and Others' Meetings Arrival at Waterloo These two film stars arrived in England last week to start work on the film version of French Without Tears, just finishing its record stage run (and why the magnates couldn t use the excellent original stage cast for the film, we can't say J Ray Milland, English Holly wood star and ex-officer in the ...

... The Passing Hour Comments and Asides By Edward Mordant THE Budget is not a matter for decent conversation. Its mention should be made a capital offence, but, alas, like all the other horrors that infest life, nobody can get away from it. I, therefore, like everybody else, in spite of all promises to myself, by alluding to the beastly thing. But that is only as a stepping-stone to the ...

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... By Charles Ward Bystander Air Correspondent IN spite of war and rumours of war, travel and trade by air increase every day. There is still a fair chance that sanity will prevail and the aeroplane be used for its obvious purpose, to promote under standing and goodwill between nations. Our national air transport companies, Imperial and British Airways, are about to develop a Corporation. That ...

... By Alan G. Hess A WEEK or so back I wrote about the boom which our motor industry has been enjoying during the past month or so. The registration figures for February have just been issued by the Ministry of Transport, and they bear out my remarks in no uncertain manner. The total number of new vehicles regis tered was 33,907, compared with 30,332 in February, 1938, the figures for the several ...

... BENTHEY MOTORS (1931) LTD, 16 CONDUIT ST, LONDON. W,|. reu-Mow MAY FAIR 441 2- _ ...

... Florence Desmond celebrated early summer weather by taking herself and Bonzo for a run. She and her husband have just moved from St. John's Wood to Hampstead, and he says that their old home (which had its own bar I was a slum compared to the new one but don't tell their ex-neighbours in smart Acacia Road this. Her claim to take a page in the Bystander Flying Number she is married to an air ...

... Stream-line The talk in the library is of pools and beats, of rival rods and tackle. And grand, satisfying, knowledgeable talk it is. The whisky in the glasses is . That is what you would expect such men to be drinking 'a blend of all the finest whiskies of Scotland, a blend so smooth that one might almost say-- the Major has just said it-- that the word for is stream-line. Gentlemen your ...

... 46 Bystander Northern Foursomes at Hesketh (17th Year) The Last Two Days By Eleanor E. Helme MRS. WHITFIELD and Mrs. Bason (Prestbury and Upton) (8), is an entry that has appeared on the last ten draw-sheets of BYSTANDER Northern Foursomes; on the seven preceding ones, Mrs. Bason figured with a variety of partners. In short, Mrs. Bason has played in every BYSTANDER Northern Foursome, and now ...

... J. S. F. Morrison on Golf DURING the Halford Hewitt Cup meeting at Deal every year, there are numerous most exciting and thrilling matches, which, of necessity, are unsung except by the members of the two teams concerned, or even by only the four players concerned. There are so many matches played during this tournament that it is quite impossible to take cognisance of all the various ...