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... D. B. Wyndham Lewis HIGHMINDEDNESS being rife in the Lake District, one may assume that members of the Alpine Club will be invited to address the students at a forthcoming Lake land school of mountain-craft and character- training. The ethical way of falling off mountains is obviously Topic No. 1. Whymper and Mummery never roared Damn No Blast ever sullied the austere lips of Leslie Stephen. ...

... It. C. Robertson-Glasgow AT Christmas, I should never choose to go and watch Big Soccer. There 's nothing homely about that. Christmas is, above all, the team time; in the house, the family; on the football-field, a team that stays together. You don't want players popping off just because someone has bought them for £20,000. Big Soccer is surely the most soulless and calculating of all our ...

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... a One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis ALMOST exactly 160 years after the Diamond Necklace Mystery the Due de Rohan, President of the French Red Cross, has been arrested by the Gestapo in Paris for succouring crashed Allied air men. One might say the Rohans are giving History another chance. The real mystery of the Diamond Neck lace (1785) is not how a man of intelligence like Mgr. ...

... London Nights Wartime Dinner, Dance and Cabaret The Bystander's Going-Out Guide The Ritz L'ABRI du RITZ still shines out its message in safe blue underneath the arches in Picca dilly. Follow the indication of that, go crown the stairs to wards what you used to know as the Grill (or the Bar perhaps), and you come-- at right-time. anyway to the new Popote. La Popote du Ritz is probably ...

... Tribute to 44 Peggy H.M.S. Pegasus E. G. Oakley Beuttler By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler H.M.S. Pegasus, affectionately known as Peggy to hundreds of Fleet Air Arm Pilots and Observers who were trained in her, was originally designed as a tanker, but taken over by the Admiralty as a Seaplane Carrier before completion. Launched in 1914 and named Ark Koyal, she did good work in the last ...

... At The Pictures Inward Hound Freda fas Hoffnung sees her) Bruce Lock hurt NEVER have I read so much to learn so little about any ism as about the current cult of Existentialism. I have yet to be convinced that Jean-Paul Sartre and his disciples have created anything more profound than a literary New Look, in which to clothe the frustration of twentieth- century materialist man. There is ...