... Post War School House IT seems safe to say that the crystallisation of our plans for reconstruction in the future have begun with the new Education Bill. The backwardness of our educational policy has been a reproach to the National conscience far too long, but it is, we hope, a symptom and a foretaste of post-war recon struction that such an important stride can be taken in the midst of our ...

... DRESS: By JEAN BCRNUP, Editor Women's Department PRIMARY MEEDS Outdoors A coat to wear over suit, jumper suit, summer, spring or winter dress. Indoors A housecoat for receiving, reclining or just quiet-timing. i. Styled with the distinction of this house, a new typical Dereta topcoat in royal blue velours, featuring double-flapped pockets, a longish rever, well built shoulders, a fitted ...

... 1 liSPf THET T^Smi v *!00\ ger touxqe^ jP^ II i III mil lU.LHiwiilkkJJil.um'* L'l I )I.I THE ever young mature woman of this time and age is an eternally fascinating topic of escapist conversation. How does she do it? Is it the effect of tailored hair styling, cunning cut of clothes, awareness of beauty care, clever make-up? It is a little *of all these things perhaps, but they do not tell ...

... Behind the 1,000 Plane Raids IB o a' Hiftf tvurv l*lti te iiftt. Urt/ttnisvtl tun! Accomplishvti By D. K. Findlav THE take-off is at eight o'clock. The soft green of the English countryside is fading into grey. The sky is clear except for a bright band of pink clouds in the west. The aircraft are marshalled, stretched in a long line on the perimeter, fuelled and bombed and readv to go. The ...

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... Britannia eve JULY 1949 I MAURICE DEKOBRA HARRY J. GREENWALL JANE GORDON HIST^QRIClL ROMANCES By^jl MATTHEW WITH j^M COMPLETE HOME j AND FASHION^ SECTlON^g^jf .jj A,;' A AT ?v .'v. v by Malcolm Haylett s Cover Design ...

... Hood For A Hawk i| A Short Story I IMpM By Barry Perowne POPLARS, stripped of all foliage except for tufts at their summits, lined the lonely, straight road. Driving a jeep, painted black with yellow wheels, Henry Bow, English History don, on exchange at a French university, narrowed his grey eyes against the glare of the sunset. He was a little like a poplar himself, thin and tall, and his ...

... DAVID-'GARRICK IN LOVE The Romance Of The Famous Actor, His Wife Eva Marie Violette, And The Tempestuous Peg M^offington IN 1746 a dainty Viennese dancer came to London to join the opera in the Haymarket and win the ad miration of the town. To safeguard her on a journey which was then perilous for lovely young dancers. Mile. Violette, or Violetti, dressed as a page, but evi dently the disguise ...

... Fashion's decree is that this year hack views shall be more important even than front ones, and bustles and bows, pleats and trimmings all concentrate interest on the rear. But rear views are not confined to clothes houses, gardens, even outlooks must be attractive from every visible angle. Refusal to tolerate disorder behind a Good Front ensures that every facet of our lives is attractive and ...

... I i f z yaiP^A H p\(kA>h%,j if ill \j> in Wne LET summer be as capricious as it likes, but the tradition that flaming June is the right and proper month for a wedding still stands. Let the month of roses disguise itself as December, but brides-to-be still see themselves, misty in tulle, emerging from churches in a radiance compounded of happiness and sunshine. Moreover, some of them will ...

... Qo[ a 71 ower A FEW are born with that cool, magnolia look, most of us have to acquire it. The basis of it-- more especially in sticky weather, is personal daintiness. To be cool and flowerlike is to be immaculate in the physical sense of the term as well as composed mentally. You cannot feel cool if you are flustered any more than you can look cool unless you and every article of your apparel ...

... SUMMER is the time for storing up fruit, vegetables and fuel for the lean months of winter. Fruit for bottling and jam making should be carefully chosen in order to get full value from the sugar allowance. Soft fruits in season can be made into jam but the stone fruits, such as plums, can be bottled without sugar and converted into jam, if desired, whenever the sugar can be spared. Apples and ...