... A Famous Oboe Player With His Family in Sussex Leon Goossens and his wife, formerly Leslie Burrowes, the dancer, live with their daughters, Jennifer and Corinne, in two charming converted Elizabethan cottages near Lewes. Goos sens belongs to a famous musical family his brother is Eugene Goossens, famous conductor and composer, and his sisters, Marie and Sidonie, are both principal harpists. He ...

... Rugby Doings Of Three Public Schools Michael Redgrave, the well-known actor went to the Rugger match on December 8th between his old school, Clifton, and Sher borne, and sate his step-nepheic, Roy- Redgrave with him here score for Sherborne The Rugby Rugger Fifteen Rugby have done well this season, beating Stowe 9 0; Cheltenham 25 0 and drawing with the invincible Bedford XV. by 12 points all. ...

... Radial Location Centred in Regent Street, London, the Austin Reed Service throws out branches into all the towns we list here. So the Services are served, wherever they may be located. Aldershot, Amesbury, Barmouth, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bothwell, Bournemouth, Bristol, Coventry, Dunbar, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Harrogate, Hove, Hull, Ilkley, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Nottingham, ...

... The highway op f ysiiiiiy KV II. E. BKOIIKE Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge, arc showing sonic charming lilouscs. They are cheerful, simple and practical, and may be worn with a variety of skirts. Two are portrayed on this page. The one on the left is of fancy lame the colours are gay and there arc many alliances. They are sometimes called fuel savers, as the sleeves are long and the necks high ...

... IIHRBLE ari SOUEAK Stories from Everywhere A POLICEMAN on point duty saw a young man removing a spare tyre from a car drawn up by the roadside, and went over and demanded to know what he was doing. I'm stealing this tyre what do you suppose I'm doing? said the young man. The policeman, deciding that he had been a bit too clever, strolled back to his post. The young man strolled down the ...

... Very seasonable weather we're having, aren't we, Dillon? Grr Dillon, you're disgruntled. You are feeling the heat. One might almost say that you have broken into a gentle glow. Sweating like a battery mule. Don't be coarse now Dillon. Just because you're squatting in the desert there's no need to go on like a Bloomsbury i intellectual. Only wish 1 were in Bloomsbury now. Wishyou were ...

... At Home Lady Coningham, Wife of the A.O.C., Western Desert, with Her Son and Daughter These pictures of Lady Coningham with her son and daughter were taken at her country home in Hampshire. Lady Coningham was formerly Miss Muriel Nancy Brooks, and her first husband, Sir Howard Frank, Bt., died in 1932. The same year she married Air Vice-Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham. She has two sons by her ...

... Front row 2nd Lieut. Tritton, D.S.C., 2nd Lieut. Richards Lieut. Frier e-Marreco, Lieut. Humphries G.C., Miss Doreen Lisle, W.R.N.S., Capt. Harris, D.S.C., Royal Marines, 2nd Lieut. Flooks, Lieut. Stately. Back row Lieuts. Fraser, Hoart, Cardwell, 2nd Lieut. Spedding, 2nd Lieut. Shepherd, Lieut. Kneale Officers of a Fleet Air Arm Squadron D. K. Stuart Front row Lts. Boulding, King S. Penoyre, ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Courage Beyond Praise WHEN Esmonde's torpedo-bomber squad ron (No. 825) went into the attack on those German battle-cruisers, to which certain unobservant Gentlemen in Brest whose business it was to keep their eyes skinned gave fifteen hours' start, every single man in the command knew that he was going to certain death, yet they went in, and both the Scharnhorst and ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Reading for Pleasure MR. RAYMOND MORTIMER'S Channel Packet (Hogarth Press; 12s. 6d.) is at once a guide to and a series of comments on an intense, unfailing, enlivening pleasure-- that of entering another world through the printed page. The appearance of this collection of essays would, in any season, be an event: in this fourth of our wartime winters it is a beacon. Holding ...

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... AIB EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Enormousness ALMOST the only thing that remains constant in a changing world seems to be the urge to enormous ness. Everything tends to get bigger. Departments tend to expand. Services to be enlarged. Aircraft to increase in size, weight and power. Even the single seat fighter, which is helped in its duties by being small, has grown so that the fighters of to-day ...