... F CLOSE, who was National cross-country champion in 1935 and in the British Olympic team of 1936, won the Surrey County A.A.A. senior seven miles race over Wimbledon Common last Saturday. Close was round about or in the lead from start to finish and won easily by 300 yards in 38 min. 29 sec., good time con sidering the difficult conditions, for part of the course was waterlogged and the ...

... P.C. Cox, the Wimbledon Park professional, who has been a policeman since the outbreak of war, assures Mrs. L. G. Pearson that the ice is safe. Cox himself preferred goloshes to skates. Mr. T. Stanley Perry secretary to the Wimbledon Park Club, was on the ice looking very much at home. These pictures were taken on January 3. ...

... THE at the Polytechnic Extension Gymnasium proved an excellent curtain raiser for the national event, since there was a fine entry of both English internationals and foreign stars now resident in this country. Two of the latter, Bergmann the champion and A. Leibster, the former Austrian captain, have been doing good work giving exhibition matches to entertain the R.A.F. The English ...

... Lovelies I to Look At BETTT GRAB'LE, Mrs. Jackie Coogan that was, has temporarily deserted Hollywood for Broadway, where, according to the New York critics, she is dancing like a piece of thistledown in a new musical. But film fans needn't despair, for if they missed the release of Man About Town last month they can still see her in Million Dollar Legs, one of Para- mount's brighter co-ed. ...

... By Highwayman ALREADY it is all too easy to think and talk of pre-war motoring, so sharply have war conditions cut across civilian life. But we must not forget the cars of the current year, for when the war ends these will still be the current models, which are likely to remain current (with few exceptions and additions) for many months after. So a review of the cars of the past year, such as ...

... BY APPOINTMENT TO THE LATE KING GEORGE V. PARIPAN ENAMEL The more you wash it, the better it looks. BRITISH OWNED AND BRITISH MADE PARIPAN LIMITED LON DON. BOLLINGER CHAMPAGNE oy n|/| ...

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... James Gunn is one of the 1270 artists who have contributed paintings, drawings, engravings and sculpture to the Royal Academy of Arts' United Artists' Exhibition at Burlington House which opened to the public last Friday and will run until March 3rd. The Hanging Committee were Sir Edwin Lutyens, P.R.A., W. Russell Flint, R.A., Ethel Gabain, Viola Borradaile, M. Osborne, R.A., Gilbert Bayes, ...

... Sanity Fare The Author of Insanity Fair Covers the War Fronts Douglas Reed That Russian Steamroller IF neither the partitioning of Poland, which after Germany's attack was logical, nor the attack on Finland, which was indefensible, had disillusioned foreign sympathisers with the Bolshevists, the course of the Finnish campaign should accomplish this. It is explicable only by the mass- ...

... An Admiral's Family Sir Charles Forbes, C.-in-C., Home Fleet, His Wife and Children When you read that submarines, in the North Sea have been chased off or sunk by British warships, or that raiding aircraft engaged a convoy some where off the East Coast, the man on this page is finally responsible for the praise or blame attaching to such action. Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, Commander-in ...

... More People In the News Last Week Mr. Jim Lawrence and Miss Elizabeth Corcoran Jim Lawrence and Elizabeth Corcoran announced last week that they were very shortly to be married. He is the eldest son of the late Sir Walter Lawrence, of Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth (who died last autumn) is well known as a Cresta rider, was in the Californian air-crash when Lord and Lady Plunket were killed. She is ...

... Annette Mills, creator of Boomps-a-Daisy first and Adolf second, takes her song-writing seriously. She claims it is a craft needing years'of experience, knowledge of psychology, love of human nature, shrewd judgment of the market of the moment. She likes to do it in comfort, composing often in bed in her elegant Harnpstead home. Her career to date goes like this village organist, nursery ...