... By Oliver Stewart No Flies on Time I AM a lifelong admirer of the American Press. Even when some vast chain of syndicated newspapers splenetically splashed some injudicious remark of mine about American aid and completely ignored my frantic appeals for an oppor tunity to answer back, I still admired the American Press. And in nothing do I admire it more than in its aggressive irreverence. ...

... The loss of the Jacial contour as shown in this photograph means a tragedy to many women A Romance of Facial Appearance by ELISABETH MARCETSOt Price 3'6 (Methuen) A well known Fleet Street journalis reveals her experience in that field modern marvels A good facial a| pearance by the latest scientific method as practised in London by a Swis Specialist for the last 35 years and wh wrote the ...

... Debutantes Dancing At Queen Charlotte's Birthday Dinner- Dance at' Grosvenor House The Hon. Rosemary Scott-Ellis and Archduke Robert of Austria Miss Mary Churchill, the Premier's daughter, and a friend ThiS WaS the ng-oul ball for most of the 1941 debutantes Miss Anne Rea and Miss Ann Upton 1 jyiisa While the worst blitz since December raged over London (on Saturday, March 8th) nearly a ...

... Give a Good Book This is the Slogan of the Red Cross and St. John Book Campaign at H ■T: 73pr v Mrs. Stephen Kunzer drives a van, collecting books from outlying country districts. Two of her young voluntary helpers are her daughter, Carolyn and Jane Shirley, daughter of the campaign s founder Right The Hon. Andrew Shirley examines books awaiting valua tion, with Miss Cynthia Minoprio. She has ...

... Air Marshal Sir Richard Peck, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, (General) since February 1940, was born in Lancashire, and was educated at St. Paul's School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He started, flying in 1915, when he transferred from the East Surrey Regiment to the R.F.C., being awarded the O.B.E. in 1919. Granted a permanent commission in the R.A.F. after the war, as a Squadron Leader, ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Imagination and War WITHIN the last four years more has happened than the imagination can contain. I mean by imagination nothing boundless or abstract, but that faculty that exists, in greater or less degree, in each individual human being. It is indeed, I suppose, in this very faculty that our distinctive humanity resides: it is by our power of envisaging things, of ...

... I he Countess of Ronaldshay and Her Children Lady Ronaldshay and her two small children were photographed at her father-in-law's Yorkshire home, Aske, near Richmond. Her husband, who is in the Yorkshire Yeomanry, is the elder son of Marquess and Marchioness of Zetland. She was Miss Penelope Pike before her 1936 marriage is the daughter of Colonel Ebenezer Pike, of Ditcham Park, Petersfield, ...

... A World Premiere Canada at War in the Great British Film, 49th Parallel Forty-ninth Parallel to have its world premiere at the Odeon on October 8, was made both in Canada and England. It was produced and directed by Michael Powell in co-operation with the M.O.I., and is a picture of great magnitude which took nearly two years to complete. It entailed the taking of a fully-equipped film unit ...

... One Year After By Pamela Murray THIS is an anniversary letter. When I first wrote from Saratoga our particular shipload of mothers and children had docked at Halifax only a week or two before. The sinking of the Benares with the loss of hundreds of children's lives was making tragic headlines; the Battle of Britain had begun; America seemed to me to be fully awake, anxious of course, and ...

... A Politician at Home Lord and Lady Addison in Buckinghamshire Lord Addison, Chairman of the Agricultural War Executive Committee, and Lady Addison, live in Bucks. Their white, tiled house, Neighbours, at Radnage, was only completed recently. Lady Addison takes a personal interest in the Radnage village war effort, and is president of the Women's Institute, whose knitting party have provided ...

... Design for Fighting By Oliver Stewart TWO things, one recent and one remote, will remain in my mind as vivid proofs of the innate and unchanging barbarity of the English people. The first I noticed when I began, only a few weeks ago, to travel by train. In the past I have travelled by motor car or aeroplane, because these vehicles provide a more civilised and more individual form of travel. ...

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