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... In happier times Kershaw all British Binoculars will be available again for your enjoyment. SOHO LTD., COLHAM MILL ROAD, WEST DRAYTON, MIDX. (Branch of A. Kershaw Be Sons Ltd.) Last year, thanks to the warning we issued about the shortage of books and thanks to the heed that was paid to it most of our customers were able without undue difficulty to make a satisfactory selection for their ...

Motor Cars into War Weapons

... By Our Motoring Correspondent IT is one of the great regrets of all motoring critics that the interests of security dictate that nothing or very little shall be said of the manner in which the great motor-car manufacturers have turned their works over to the production of war materials and especially to those needed for building up the air power of the United Nations. In the days before the ...

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WINTER FASHIONS: TAILORED SLACKS AND SKIRTS TRUBENISED COLLARS AND CUFFS

... WINTER FASHIONS TAILORED SLACKS AND SKIRTS TRUBENISED COLLARS AND CUFFS A PARTICULARLY interesting exhibition of all kinds of Utility clothes was recently held at Simpsons, Piccadilly. There were about sixty models which, being Utility, were sold under the Government Price Control. The highest price for a suit now that the purchase tax has been removed is 97s. 4d. others are a little less 92s. ...

Rapier on Racing: Trials of Stallion Owners- More Well-Bred Yearlings for Sale

... (m, ^J^cccUi^- Trials of Stallion Owners-- More Weil-Bred Yearlings for Sale THE recent success of His Majesty's filly, Sunblind, is another feather in the cap of the National Stud, who bred her. It has been a fine year for that establishment. Sunblind's victory, however, also calls fresh attention to the merits of her great sire, Hyperion, who for the third year in succession will occupy the ...

The Back Swing

... WHEN I see a player preparing to drive and settling himself down solidly, I speculate, as to how he will get moving from such a dead position. In theory, the golf swing is divided into sections- stance, address, back swing, etc., but in fact the world's best golfers are moving from the very instant they make up their minds what shot to play, so the back swing can be said to begin in practice ...

Schweppes

... Oes G#ppes r f See its sparkling clearness as it bubbles in your glass. Take a deep draught. How clean and crisp it is on the tongue. Could you have I SSSiite believed that water could taste so satisfying MALVERN MM SPA p|i Just as delightful blended with spirits ...

Playbill Looks at the Shows

... The Merchant of Venice (Westminster) WE have had wartime Shakespeare in plenty, but none better than this revival by Mr. Robert Atkins, in which he plays Shylock. This I have seen him do before. But he seems to have im proved on it-- not that there was ever much room for improvement. His Jew is vastly pathetic as well as vastly unpleasant, and Mr. Atkins never for a moment attempts to clown ...

VERMOUTIERS (London) LIMITED

... 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 ...

The Land Which Means So Much To Us

... WE reproduce with pride from our issue of November 22, 1940, a frontispiece picture of Acting Squadron-Leader W. S. Fielding-Johnson, M.C., D.F.C., and his wife, taken at the Shorthorn Society's Show at Reading. Acting Squadron- Leader Fielding-Johnson won the M.C. as a twenty-three-old captain in the Army in the last war and has now won the D.F.C., at the age of fifty, for participation in ...

THE SEASON OF STOCK SHOWS AND SALES: Romney Marsh Sheep

... THE SEASON OF STOCK SHOWS AND SALES Romney Marsh Sheep WITH the great increase in our arable acreage comes a new demand for sheep, so all important in balanced farming. At Maidstone's famous Michaelmas store stock sale, 11,000 head of sheep were sold, and 65 guineas was paid for the Champion Romney Marsh shorn yearling ram. It has been said that Romney Marsh sheep will thrive where others will ...

The Army in Occupation

... THE hobnails in Army boots have made deep inroads in the stone staircases and corri dors of private houses which have been taken over by the military, but those same hobnail boots have been doing great work in many derelict country-house gardens. Indeed, in some the appreciation outside might well offset the unavoidable depreciation to the house. These pictures show the transformation to the ...