... 3 1 because Vamour is a quality Vermouth. Genuine choice wines and health giving herbs are blended into a real Vermouth, which provides the ideal aperitif or with added ingredients, a delightful cocktail. Unfortunately supplies are restricted if you are fortunate enough to get a bottle, treat it with care. Produced by Sackville House, Piccadilly, W.l ...

... Prinknash Abbey A Community War Effort RELIGIOUS communities in this country are, of course, exempted from military service. In practice, the exemption is rarely claimed, because so many priests and padres have volunteered for the Forces, and because the majority of those that remain are engaged in all-important national work. Prinknash Abbey, under the direction of the Right Reverend Dom ...

... SOME years ago an American patent made its appearance on this side of the Atlantic. It was a patent for a heavy metal casting shaped to fit over the head of any wooden golf club and to slip on to the head by going down the shaft, to be fastened to the head by a spring clip. This invention was known as the Swing- master and was devised to make a heavy practice club out of any wooden club, ...

... Look Out for Trouble By Our Horticultural Correspondent PESTS and diseases, late frosts, cold, boisterous winds, drought and weeds-- such are the potential troubles against which every gardener must now be on his guard, I am sorry to begin this week's page on such a gloomy note, but one or all of these abominations are an ever-present problem, and nobody-- much less a gardening writer-- can ...

... /\N May 2, the first of an interesting series of Saturday matches took place at Lord's, and the London Fire Service were successful in winning a single-innings match against Reading University by 8 wickets, or a two-innings game by an innings and 15 runs. On which basis the victories of these one-day matches are decided is a point which needs some clarification, but why worry the historic ...

... By Our Flying Correspondent IT is common knowledge that aircraft are becoming more and more exigent about aerodrome space. As the wing loadings, or amount of weight carried by each square foot of wing surface, go up, so the taking-off and landing runs are lengthened. Actual figures for British machines are not given. They are looked on and rightly as secret except where the machine is an old ...

... BREWED BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO., LTD., MORE POPULAR THAN EVER In the Mess, in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars no less than in the Home the call is for ^Whitbread's superb Pale Ale. Brewed from British hops and baric/; appetising, refreshing, stimulating, Whitbread' s superb Pale Ale is more popular than ever. WHITBREADS PALE ALE LONDON, E.C.I BREWED BOTTLED BY WHITBREAD CO., LTD. ...

... AT Lord's, in the presence of 14,000 en thusiastic spectators, the R.A.F. very narrowly escaped defeat from the Army. Squadron Leader Edrich, the R.A.F. Captain, put the Army in to bat, but his bowlers could not begin to take the wickets and the Army declared at 291 for three. An amazing century was scored before lunch by Harris, the Notts batsman, who made 115 in two hours and gave only one ...

... THE national appeal for medicinal wild herbs has found a ready response all over Sussex, many schools taking a keen interest in the work. One school is the Buckingham Gate Cen tral School, now evacuated to Handcross. Under the direction of their master, Mr. Lambert, the children are gathering all kinds of herbs, as well as rose-hips, from which a valuable vitamin C concentrate is obtained. the ...

... THE idea of combing off and threshing the ears, leaving the straw standing, is nearly a century old, for in 1845 the first Combine Harvester was used in Australia. Forty years later California started manufacturing Combines commer cially, and by the beginning of the century enormous machines like the one shown here were working on the great wheat-growing lands of the States and a few had been ...

... Scenes at the Weybridge Red Cross Regatta A successful day of mixed events organised and planned by the Weybridge Rowing Club SONS OF ISIS, Oxford, are victorious over the Barnes Rowing Club in the final of the Senior Eights. IN HEAT UB of the Clinker Eights, the Crowland Rowing Club (centre) are seen when they have just been beaten by the London Fire Force. THE UNITED HOSPITALS EIGHT: A ...

... L'UN et settlement, that is how his intimate friends often addressed him, for there was nothing of a type about Michael, he was an original one, one out of the mould only, and how sad it is to think we shall be without him for ever. There will be more awful tragedies in the war yet alas! we all know, but I feel it is the least I can do to pay tribute to one of my best friends and a fine golfer ...