... New Biography of Keats By Richard King I SUPPOSE more bosom-friendships, more wedded happiness, have been ruined by bad manners than by anything else in the world. And friendship, to be kept fresh as the loveliest gift in life, and love which is to last after the early period of mere passion, demand the most beautiful manners. Otherwise they die of the kind of hurts which are big enough alas! ...

... Helicopper By Oliver Stewart MR. SIKORSKY has been helicopping about in a most exciting manner in America. Russian inventive thought is always five years ahead of any other country's and Mr. Sikorsky is an inveterate helicopper or helicopterite or helicoptist or helicoptic or helicopterist or helicopterer. He believes in buzzing; in the insect's rather than the bird's way of flight and so he ...

... DOGS FOR SALE and AT STUD GREYHOUNDS p REYHOUNDS for track racing, country work L-* or companions. Also Brood Bitches and pedigree Puppies from £3 3s. each. Always a magnificent lot in stock, and all sent for week's trial. State requirements fully, and send 2|d. loose stamp for lists. W. Gore, Greyhound Breeder, Andoversford, near Cheltenham. Established 1807. 1 WAR TIMI ECONOM' The most ...

... SINCE his appiiiJ ment the Minis! of Agriculture :j travelled over 30,0! miles. He thinks 1 terms of counties aJ he visits three or (cJ counties most wee) ends. Our pictuij illustrate a reca flying visit to Bred Cardigan, Carman hej Montgomery ad Radnor. All of thej County Commute! have exceeded tbfl ploughing quotas aij Carmarthen hj actually trebled J pre-war arable acrcaa NOW YOU TELL ME ...

... Solving The Farmers' Problem Voluntary Land Clubs of Kent Hard at Work ON May 21 last year. Lord Cornwallis, Chairman of the Kent W.A.E.C., made a strong appeal for volunteers to join up and form land clubs. His appeal was' by no means in vain, and now the County of Kent has land volunteers working every evening at Maidstone, Ashford, Sittingbourne, Tonbridge, Chatham, Wye, Graves end and ...

... ML' T vaHHKm-WBttHii The latest broad-headed combines brought into use for the last harvest. They cut a strip of 40 ft., the grain being delivered direct into trucks running alongside the massive tractor. Electricity is employed to drive the machines used to sort the grain. Harvesters from the western Ukraine in holiday garb. Grain from the vast Kuban plains being turned over by women workers ...

... BEE-KEEPERS like to forgather for two reasons r because they 're friendly folk and because the only way to learn about bees is to talk to other experts and enthusiasts. Bee-keeping is not a craft that can be picked up from text-books, because, as Mrs. Jerome, Secretary of the Berkshire Society of Beekeepers, says Bees don't read. The Society usually meets several times yearly for a discussion ...

... TI1E ONE-DAY UNIVERSITY CRICKET MATCH brought a considerable crowd and Lord's stands looked healthily full, gate money amounting to £120 going to Red Cross Funds. The game was lively, though one-sided, Cambridge winning by seven wickets with nearly two hours to spare. Both sides, particularly Oxford, were suffering from lack of match practice. M. R. HOLMAN of Cambridge out (after scoring 16) ...

... (y*v The Government are Still in Favour Hyperion Fillies for U.S.A. The King's Ascot Successes THE limelight in a recent House of Commons debate shone on the head of Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, Member for the Seaham Division of Durham. Mr. Shinwell, complaining of the waste of petrol, ranged in fancy from pleasure trips to Oban to buses in the Waterloo Road. Mr. Shinwell ventilated a subject which ...

... Playbill Looks at the Shows THERE was the atmosphere of a pre war first night about the Piccadilly Theatre when Mr. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit was launched, although it was a sunny summer afternoon. Photographers flashed round all over the place, and celebrities, semi-celebrities and would-be celebrities pre tended to resent their attentions. Crowds on the pavement outside lay in wait for ...

... YES, it 's the Dietrich again, frothier, more seductive, more feminine than ever in the exquisite furbelows of the 1840's. The film, directed by R£n ...

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