... By Foresight Vienna Diversion EUROPE is once more filled with rumours of peace. Hitlerian peace! Hitler is planning to call a Continental Confer ence to proclaim his New Order. Nazi agents are spreading the tidings everywhere and in every way. Neutrals like Sweden, and probably Turkey,' are to be bidden to the feast. Vienna has been selected as the meeting place. But no date has been finally ...

... By James Agate Jinks on the Ark Royal I SAT through Ships With Wings more in anger than in sorrow. In this film a fortune has been expended, and the aid ol the Admiralty invoked, on behalf of a story at which a schoolboy must laugh. And yet it's all so simple. Why, before thousands were poured out and the Fleet Air Arm was incommoded, did not Mr. Balcon summarise his plot on half a sheet of ...

... 5 H 1 I iiL^y I I I The I History I HENNESSY k M I ,s I History of f if 3 JC I GOOD I I BRANDY I \i t :j)J .j)j in: r ii fl£; I 5 K- j 9 je fe *iU£ F°K COUfiQ^ I 7 c^S* o^V 0k ENQUIRIES TO: NICOLL CLOTHES II MIDDLESEX HOUSE 1 CLEVELAND STREET V LONDON, W.I WEST- END AGENTS Nicolls of Regent St REGENT ST., LONDON, W.I REG. 1951 Don't think you are being unpatriotic by having good light- ing in ...

... i By Elizabeth Bowen Solitary Battle WHO WALK ALONE (Dent; 12s. 6d.) is an heroic story with a terrible subject-- leprosy. How does a decent average man make out under the circumstances created by this disease? There are no half-measures in this extreme case: life must be either a defeat or a victory. In Ned Langford's case, the out come is victory not a cure of the illness, but a ...

... -/4 By Sabretache in Amateur Handicapper THIS is no reference to any amateur strategist, who quite frequently and also quite unwittingly is a handicapper, but to a very good judge in our friend The Sporting Life, who has made out an estimate of the two-year-old form. He very modestly calls himself an amateur, but I shall be much surprised if, when Mr. Fawcett pro duces his official ...

... m HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD., I'm sorry you haven't an {irUffopviie, tot W e are very sorry there are not enough Anglepoise Lany to go round at present, so that the many kind folk wk are knitting for the Services and doing other useful wot for their country cannot enjoy this great boon. But we feel sure that our friends will realise that the r manufacture for the public is restricted which ...

... Absolutely unretouched photograph of the same eyes before and after treatment. OVER AND UNDER THE EYES REJUVENATED Eyes set in loose wrinkled skin tell of age, worry, misfortune and ill-health. This imperfection of the skin destroys the natural expression of even the brightest eyes. The Hystogen method corrects pain lessly and permanently all facial im perfections, and saves the face from ...

... Which Illustrate Some of the Enemy Tactics During the Campaigns on the Northern Sector and in the Ukraine THE THOROUGHNESS WITH WHICH COMMUNICATIONS WERE WRECKED BY THE RUSSIANS This picture is supposed to show how clever the Germans are in the work of reconstructing the devastated bridges of Russia but it also shows how thoroughly the Russians performed their self- appointed task of ...

... 44 PUSH AND PAUSE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT Throughout the Present Campaign the German Advance has Followed a Set Programme Three Days of Furious Advance Followed by Ten Days to Re-equip and Remount the Plaited Offensive. Why this Method has been Imposed on the Germans is Described Here in a Series of Special Notes and Diagram Drawings AN analysis of the four and a half months of fighting on the ...

... Are We Using General de Gaulle as much as We Might, Both for the Good of his Country and of Our Own A Suggestion for the Creation of a General Staff to Deal with Mechanisation Alone By FERDINAND TUOHY THIS is a tank war, says Stalin to Lord Beaverbrook. But it 's also an aeroplane war, queries Lord Beaverbrook of Stalin. It will finish by being an aero-tank war, sums up Stalin. With all this ...

... THE COMING OF THE SEA OTTER The Cargo Vessel of Revolutionary Design and Construction for the Battle of the Atlantic THE drawing by Mr. Lambert, reproduced above, has been made from photographic material in THE SPHERE'S possession. It shows an 80-ft. model of the new U.S. Sea Otter class of cargo-ship, con cerning which the well-known American magazine Time has given the following details: ...

... This is One of the Most Urgent of War Tasks at the Present Moment. What can be Done in this Connection, and How the Country can Best be Served, is Here Discussed in Full By CHARLES GRAVES IT may seem a far, almost a far-fetched, cry from Ruff's Guide to the Turf or Ally Sloper's Half Holiday to ack-ack gunfire. Lord Beaverbrook's demand for a minimum of 100,000 tons of waste paper and waste ...