... W .Jf. f QUEEN MARY recently spent the afternoon with members of the Women's Land Army living at a Gloucestershire War Agricultural Committee Hostel at Mickleton, near Chip ping Campden. After inspecting this modernised sixteenth- century house in the Cotswold Hills, her Majesty took tea with the girls. After tea came an address by her Majesty and the presentation of Good Service Diamonds to ...

... A O HEARING-TIME varies both with the different O breeds and with the climate. It also depends on the natural rise of the wool in late spring, and from now till the end of July the clippers will be busy. To-day many flocks are sheared with mechani cally-worked clippers, but there are still many of the old-time hand workers. They usually sheared five sheep and then stopped for a rest and to ...

... DURING the present month millions of seedling vegetable plants will be ready for a move from the seed-beds to the plots in which they will be grown on to maturity. From these seedlings thousands of tons of valuable foodstuff will be gained or lost according to the manner in which the transplanting is carried out. The job is a simple one, but it does not permit of hap hazard methods. Lettuce ...

... The AMERICAN CAPTURE of ATTU The Island Near Kiska, in the Aleutians, on which the Japs were Wiped Out Within Three Weeks First Pictures of the Fighting from the U.S. A ttu was one of two islands in the Aleutian group held by 1 the Japanese. It lies some 200 miles to the westward of Kiska, on the couthem side of the Bering Sea, and within the Arctic Circle. It is a foggy, rocky, ice-bound spot ...

... C:M ASKING SUNDAY: The ceremony of blessing the crops on Rogation Asking Sunday once played a regular part in English country life. It had been dying out since the days of the industrial revolution even in the hands of the country clergy. The spiritual revival which is a notable feature of the war has given a new meaning to the old words and in many parishes the ancient custom is being ...

... Quiet Week-End At Esther McCracken's Northumberland Home Esther McCracken, authoress of Quiet Wedding and its record-breaking successor, Quiet Week- End, is the owner of Rothley Lake House, near Morpeth, where she works hard on the farm of 23 acres. Her husband, Lt.-Col. McCracken, is serving with the Eighth Army, and until a year ago, she herself was in the W.R.N.S. acting as a driver in her ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King's Travels IT was immediately after our final victory in Tunisia that the King first expressed his wish to go out and see the Anglo-American victors, but his visit was impossible until the armies had regrouped after fighting had finished --a process that naturally took some little time-- and when this had been done, Mr. Churchill was out of the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Sub-Station HENRY GREEN is one of the most interesting of our contemporary novelists. Either in spite of, or because of, this, he is not yet one of the best known. His experiments in technique have been made with a view to finding, as every writer should do, his own approach to reality. In his style, more often than in his subjects, he breaks with conventions. He may ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Surrender EVERY day the Italians undergo a propaganda offensive. They are told through the radio that they must defy their leaders and withdraw from the war. There are no terms to induce them to do this. They must surrender unconditionally. The British and United States Governments are agreed that this must be the only policy. They refuse to make Italy's ...

... This Ladd Quits Racketeering For Romance Learning to Love China and Loretta Young, and Dying a Hero's Death for Both, is Tough- guy Alan Ladd's New Role An intensely dramatic story unfolded against a momentous backdrop of heroism, romance and high adventure. That's Paramount's own description of their big picture China which came to the Plaza on June 18. Alan Ladd, Killer No. 1, who made his ...

... 4 4 Colonel Blimp's First Night Spectators at the Odeon for a Film Premiere Sir Stafford Cripps Lord Privy Seal came with his wife and daughter The Prime Minister sat between Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Anthony Eden, wife of the Foreign Secretary Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen was with his wife and Sir Richard Cruise The Marquess and Marchioness of London derry arrived together at the film premiere Young ...

... She best bp far in peace or u>ar HUNTLEY PALMERS BISCUITS j Supreme in Quality for over a fonturi/ jj Owing to Government Restrictions supplies are limited and are now only available in certain areas. No Direct Sales ...