... General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Mrs. Furlong, widow of Brigadier Dennis Furlong, were married on Wednesday last week, l)y the Chaplain-General to the Forces, at St. Stephen's, Rochester Row. Lady Dill was formerly Miss Nancy Charriugton, only child of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Charrington, of Castlemaine, Twyford, Berks, and Cliff House, Sandgate, Kent. Her ...

... By Foresight Bevin Says No BY superbly organised political campaign- ing the Oxford Group have brought a grievance before Parliament. They insist that eleven of their evangelists have the right of automatic exemption from military service like the officials of other religious denomina- tions. They got 170 Members of Parliament to support them. Never was so much lobbying done among so many by ...

... Diplomatic Stitchers at Seaford House At Seaford House Belgrave Square formerly Lord Hoivard de Walden's London home there is a W.V.S. Hospital Supplies depot of which Lady Colefax is chairman. Here are nine of the regular workers there most of them the wives of diplomats Mme. Moniz de Aragao, wife of the Brazilian Ambassador Mme. Dumitrescu ivife of the former Roumanian Military and Naval ...

... Daisy Kennedy Violinist and Band-Leader When John Drinkwater, poet and dramatist, died in 1937, his widow, Daisy Kennedy, the well-known Australian violinist, found herself with an eight-year-old daughter to support and educate, and a home to keep together for little Penelope and the two daughters of her first marriage to the pianist, Benno Moiseiwitsch. To do this, she gave up the career of ...

... -/4 By Sabretache A Head Line from Burma My old friend M.B.R.A., who, like most Mountain Gunners, has seen service in so many wild and out-of- the-way spots, sends me the following letter, which is of more than usual interest in view of all the jabber about Japanese intentions to attack India viá Thailand and Burma and the bloodthirsty Colonel Mabuchi's threat. The letter also contains a ...

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... \j e j The Russian Influence This ocelot hat and muff are equally smart in Persian lamb, or other smooth furs. WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, W.I. CftftTi) ...

... By Eleanor E. Helme THE other day an anecdote was told of a distinguished Chinese diplomat playing golf, who, when asked whether he had won, replied that neither had counted the strokes, they had merely played. That may appear, on the face of it, a state of philosophy hardly to be attained by a mere mad game-playing Anglo-Saxon. Academic interest is all very well, your typical Mrs. Battle, who ...

... FIGHTING IN THE CLOUDS The Woolly Wonderland Above the Earth By KENELM LOCKE TO leave the cold, dewy ground in the chill gloom of early morning, climb for thousand upon thousand of feet upward through massive banks of cumulo-nimbi, veiling the earth and blotting out utterly the sky; to break through the top at last and find blue skies clear, and [sunshine and perfect peace; then to glance ...

... WOMEN LUMBERJACKS IN A NORTHUMBERLAND FOREST A most hefty wartime job is that of the women lumberjacks in a Northumberland forest near Beadnel. Thirty-five such girls have now been recruited for this heavy work, the Home Grown Pit Wood and Timber Department of the Ministry of Supply being in charge. Their duties are cross-cutting, peeling, loading and measuring and supplying pit props for the ...

... Other Things Than War Religious Usages; The Dukeries in V^artime; A Question of Oil The Language of the Times A NOTE ON INCENSE.-- I am too old a hand as a journalist to believe that one can write in the Press on a religious topic without bringing a hornets nest of criticism about one's ears. And I am too old a journalist to welcome a hornets' nest. But I venture to set forth in the ...

... More War Pictures And Some of the Official Artists Below John Piper has added the ruined Council Chamber of the House of Commons to his series of bombed cathedrals and churches. Most of his solemn, richly coloured paintings are now with the various exhibitions of war pictures on tour in this country and in Canada and the U.S. A. Captain Barraclough, R.N. was painted by Sir Muirhead Bone on the ...