... Suffo/ks at Ipswich Features of the Ipswich Spring Stallion Show, held by the Suffolk Agricul tural Association, were the heavy entries in the junior classes and the all-round strength of exhibits from East Anglian studs. A qualification to this is that Sir Hanson Rowbotham 's important stud-farm at Brooke, Isle of Wight, pro vided the winners of the two junior classes and the junior supreme ...

... THERE are a great number of different-- and specialist-- jobs on the farm. Indeed, no other occupation can show so many diverse interests and activities as the ordinary arable or mixed farm. Some agricultural duties are very strenuous and re quire such heavy muscular effort that they are much too exacting for women, but the care of stock is a branch of farming admirably adapted for animal ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent A FORTNIGHT ago I referred to the comparatively simple task of outdoor vegetable cultivation, but on reflec tion I must confess that this was perhaps an ill-chosen phrase. In contrast with green house work, vegetable production under natural conditions is a more straightforward business, but, as many a wartime cultivator has discovered, there are many ...

... J^cchicA- ow The Re-institution of the Coronation Cup IT is surprising that so little attention has been drawn to the reinstitution by the Stewards of the Coronation Cup. Conditions of the race have not yet been published, but it is to be run at Newmarket on Oaks Day, June 18, and is to be an open event. Having been given this importance, it may be assumed that the stake will be a relatively ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Hearts of Gold By James Agafe Audi alteram partem! I have received an enormous number of letters about my recent article on It's That Man Again. The letters ranged from the modestly protesting to the downright abusive. The reader may remember my saying that if the comedians in this film are funny I would have my brains taken out and buttered. Which has provoked a ...

... A Distinguished Audience at the World Premiere Pictures of the Film on page 338 (9 Sir James Grigg the Minister for War General Sir Alan Brooke Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lieut.-Colonel Macdonald the Producer of the Film Lieut. -General Nye Vice-Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Mrsi Nye Cdr. Graham Johnstone and Mrs. Graham Johnstone Doris Zinkeison the artist) Air Vice ...

... 0 C^J A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Entertaining Americans COUNTESS SPENCER, who accompanied the King and Queen when they visited the American Red Cross Day Club at North ampton, during their recent tour of the Midlands, is a well-known and very popular figure among the American troops stationed in that neigh bourhood, for she and her husband frequently entertain large parties of ...

... BY M. E. BltOOHE The outfit on the left has been designed and carried out by H. J. Nicoll and Co., Regent Street. They frankly admit it has been inspired by the soldier's battledress. For the jacket tartan has been used, while the trousers are plain. Emphasis must be laid on the fact that this firm excels in equipment for the Army, Navy and Air Force. A feature is like wise made of classic ...

... HOW THE TOWN OF MEDENINE, IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA, WAS FOUND AFTER ITS ABANDONMENT TO THE EIGHTH ARMY. Looking through a Moorish archway at tha wrecked buildings, wantonly destroyed by the Germans before their withdrawal The town of Medenine, near the Mediterranean coast, is only seven miles from the Mareth Line defences it lies on the direct route between Tripoli and Tunis. In view of the ...

... THE VOUGHT-SIKORSKY HELICOPTER demonstrating how it can land or take-off from the water without making even a splash. With floats fitted to this strange aircraft, it is immediately converted into a seaplane. Its value in mid-Atlantic would make it of great value in combatting the activities of the U-boats COMING DOWN TO PARK, the helicopter can hover like a humming-bird over the exact spot ...

... SIX SOLUTIONS IN SEARCH OF A FUHRER Or, What is the Mystery of Hitler's Disappearance from the Gaze of his Adoring Public By FERDINAND TUOHY ON April 20 there will be fresh occasion to test the validity of the argument that something has happened to Hitler. He should then be fifty four, and preceding birthdays have been signalled by a personal message. The obvious and simplest proof would be ...

... GERMAN VEHICLES in N. AFRICA Pictures 'The pictures reproduced here have all been received during the past few days from the Tunisian battle areas, where the fighting has, once again, largely been a conflict of tank versus artillery. Many of the German Panzers were badly mauled in consequence especially during Rommel's attacks on the Eighth Army before the Mareth Line, when no fewer than fifty ...