... This year Sidney Webb is eighty-two and his wife is eighty-three. For more than fifty years they have devoted themselves to social, industrial, economic and political investigation, and to the authorship, first separately, and since 1894 (when their first joint book, The History of Trade Unionism was published) in collaboration, of a body of work a score of monumental volumes unsurpassed in ...

... The Leger By Sabretache DESPITE the fact that the enemy has named September 1st as the day upon which he intends to conquer Great Britain and crown The Misleader in, presumably, Westminster Abbey, we still intend to run the Leger next Saturday, September 6th, and this, as I suggest, is a very good sign, because it shows not com placency, but that we are upon a very even keel. That is a thing ...

... s4^ Photogenesis By Oliver Stewart PASSPORT holders refuse to believe that the camera can do anything else but lie. They reject the police and Foreign Office view that the mournful and monotonous thugs and cut-throats who look out (full face and without hat) from the pages of their passports bear any resemblance to their elegant selves. In fact, untouched pnysiognomicai pnoto- graphs are ...

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... The Dowager Countess Cadogan, whose husband, the sixth Earl, died in 1933, is a daughter of Mr. George Stewart Coxon of Cheltenham. She married her second husband, Lieut. -Colonel Harold Everard Hambro, C.B.E., of Coldham Hall, Bury St. Edmund's, in March this year. Colonel Hambro is a son of the late Sir Everard Hambro, and is a director of Hambro's Bank. Lady Alexandra Buchanan is the ...

... Jean Nicoll wore a victory dress of her own design, decorated with crossed flags, and with V's all round the hem j Secretary of the Officers' Club at Aldershot, where the matches were played, is Colonel J. F. B. Morrell, D.S.O., M.V.O. He is with Mrs. Anson Prescott Roberts, president of the Aldershot Red Cross, end her husband, Lieut. -Colonel P. Anson Prescott- Roberts, O.B.E., R.A.S.C. ...

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... By Foresight No Fool Beaverbrook THERE was a new outburst of activity in the Ministry of Supply last week when Lord Beaverbrook arrived back by bomber from his conferences in Washington. It was still widely assumed, though no announcement had been made, that he will head the British Mission to Moscow, when the United States, Russia, and Britain sit down to a three-power conference on war ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Heneage Dawson Major Neil Frederick Heneage R.A son of Lieut. -Colonel A. P. Heneage, M.P., and Mrs. Heneage, of Walesby House, Market Rasen, Lines., and Rosemary Ann Dawson, only daughter of the late Ivo Vernon Dawson and Mrs. Dawson, of 40, Knightsbridge Court, S.W.i, were married at St. James's, Spanish Place Grey Gwynne A. Christopher Grey, son ...

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... DEFENDERS OF THEIR HOMES IN RUSSIA A band of Cossack volunteers in action again the Germans The Cossacks were ever a free and independent people. In the present war against the ordes of invaders many of these fine fighting men are serving with Marshal Budenny's Army in the U -aine. Many others have joined the Popular Volunteer Force and are serving in various capacities at the frc and to the ...