... a One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis ALMOST exactly 160 years after the Diamond Necklace Mystery the Due de Rohan, President of the French Red Cross, has been arrested by the Gestapo in Paris for succouring crashed Allied air men. One might say the Rohans are giving History another chance. The real mystery of the Diamond Neck lace (1785) is not how a man of intelligence like Mgr. ...

... Tribute to 44 Peggy H.M.S. Pegasus E. G. Oakley Beuttler By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler H.M.S. Pegasus, affectionately known as Peggy to hundreds of Fleet Air Arm Pilots and Observers who were trained in her, was originally designed as a tanker, but taken over by the Admiralty as a Seaplane Carrier before completion. Launched in 1914 and named Ark Koyal, she did good work in the last ...

... lftf Fcrdittttttti Tuohy WHILE our cinemas gradually assume their new and pre eminent role as temples of uplift, my chief reaction will not be of anger, or resentment, at other people's godliness being directed at uncon sulted Me in the back stalls. Rather shall I glance wistfully back at fascinating personalities of the past, a faithful screen ing of whose lives would collide with standards ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis RAT Week and Sanitary Sunday and Potato Day and a dozen other feasts of obligation with octave established by the Government so far being not enough for some people, an Admiral M.P. has proposed an entirely new Kalendar, we observe, with 26 weekdays in every month and other pleasures and excitements. It won't be adopted, of course. Like the French ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndliam Lewis FAIRLY accurately, a special correspon dent has described the rich rolling Norman battleground, with its apple- orchards and deep lanes and white farms and ancient market-towns as England without ribbon development, hoardings, fake-Tudor tea-shoppes, or Jacobean petrol- stations. The ideal modern battleground, from the single standpoint of those ...

... One Thing and Another By D. B. Wyndham Lewis SIR JOHN MARTIN HARVEY was probably the Last British Romantic Actor, the kind who can turn blatant hokum into magic by native grace, delicacy, charm, and poise. There was a dashing Edwardian piece of cloak-and sword flafla, The Breed of the Treshams, in which Harvey beat the newer generation at its best game. The technique of modishly lighting a ...

... Looking Ahead-- to th e B o on t int o II r Ferdinand Tuoln SOMEBODY told me I needed another hobby, so I've started collecting boons. The idea came one grey day as I read of another Benign Thing To Come. Of course! Now was the proper season, the latter part of wartime, that intent looking-ahead period. One could scarcely help seeing boons ahead. My opening entry chanced to be Traverse Machine ...

... Guinness F/Lt. D. A. Tibbenham G UINNESS My Goodness My ...