... The John Burns Collection Purchased for £6,000 by Lord Southwood >NE OF THE TREASURES OF THE BURNS COLLECTION: The Life of Long Meg of Westminster. This is the Britwell Court-Heber copy, which was last sold in June 1920: it is a small quarto volume published by Richard Bird in London in 1636, and printed in black letter. It is a book on which much of our knowledge of life in London in the ...

... . t Even at the age of five WINSTON CHURCHILL had a passion for unconventional clothing, and liked to tcear a sailor cap icith his tweed suit. Invincible is the prophetic name on the cap ribbon. With him is his aunt, LADY LESLIE, then Miss Ltonie Blanche Jerome, a debutante enjoying the Dublin season, and she is wearing a dress which may very well have been brought from Paris by her elder ...

... PEOPLE IN THE WEEK'S NEWS. PERSONALITY REVIEW BY SNAPSHOT. The ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY toured the London area A.-A. posts. He is here chatting to LltY BARRETT and DORIS SNAILHAM, of the A.T.S. CAPTAIN VISCOUNT VAUGHAN, Welsh Guards son of the Earl of Lisburne, married MISS SHELAGH MACAULEY, daughter of Mrs. T. A. Macauley at St. James's, Spanish Place. The infant son of GROUP CAPTAIN C. ...

... NEW FOOD MINISTER- COLONEL J. J. LLEWELLIN. Slipping on the mantle of Lord Woohon COLONEL the RT. HON. J. J. LLEWELLIN, M.P., has taken over the food control of the nation. As Resident Minister he was in Washington for supply questions at the beginning of this year, and comes to his post with a knowledge of the problems of supply confronting the Allies. He was at Eton and University College, ...

... WOOL GIVES WARMTH IV WINTER i ^r^r:^2ZEQZMatrzw: r*r#3X' ...

... A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Rationed Sport THE King, like every other keen shot, is finding the acute shortage of cartridges something of a problem. At recent royal shoots, which have included a day or two out with the guns at Sandringham and one excellent day of sport at the Queen's Hertfordshire home at St. Paul's Walden, cartridges have been stringently rationed. Fortunately, ...

... London Wedding Lord Vaughan Marries Miss Macauley Capt. Viscount Vaughan, Welsh Guards, only son of the Earl and Countess of Lisburne, and Miss Shelagh Macauley, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Macauley, of 3, Grosvenor Square, W., were married on December 4th at St. James's, Spanish Place. The bride and bridegroom are seen here cutting the cake at the reception, and behind them is Don ...

... Corn in Leicestershire Sir Harold Nutting Farms 2000 Acres for Food Sir Harold Nutting, Bt„ of Quenbv Hall, Leicestershire, Master of the Quorn for ten years, gave up the Mastership in 1939. Since then he has devoted his energy to producing rood for the war effort, and 75 per cent, of IS 2000 acres is under the plough, this land, considered the hest grass hunting country in the world, has not ...

... THE THREE LEADERS, MARSHAL STALIN, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND MR. CHURCHILL. Behind are other delegates and advisers present at the Conference on the left is Mr. Harry Hopkins, of the United States behind M. Stalin is M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Secretary alongside him is Mr. Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Section Officer Sarah Oliver, W.A.A.F. (Mr. Churchill's daughter), and Mr. ...

... At one time during the landing operations at j I Salerno it was touch and go some of the credit f saving the situation must go to the hundreds of airborne soldiers, who were flown to the scene of operatio ns and sent straight into battle. They landed in their aircraft, not by parachute this was mac: possible only by the development in rapid airfield strip construction, whereby aircraft can ...

... The Manner in which Our Troops are Advancing in Appalling Weather Conditions in Central Italy GENERAL MONTGOMERY VISITS THE FRONT LINE The Commander of the Eighth Army is here seen during an inspection of forward positions on the Sangro. He has stopped alongside a Sherman tank bogged in the thick mud to hand out some cigarettes to the troops im s :',bobsh UP IN THE HILL COUNTRY A site occupied ...

... A GREAT deal has been written and planned about post-war civil aviation, but little or nothing has been mentioned about post-war road transport. This is due, no doubt, to the fart that civil aviation is a matter of international decisions; whereas our road transport is, on the face of it, an internal problem. But is it? When the war comes to an end there will be thousands of M.T. vehicles and ...