... THE British Games organ ised by the News of the World were held at the White City on Whit Monday in blazing sunshine. A gate of some 10,000 people and a collection gave valuable aid to the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St. John Fund. Three features of the meeting were the remarkably fine form shown by the veteran C. S.M.I. Holmes a Jamaica pilot officer, S. Wint and a young sprinter, A. ...

... IT was like the old days to tee-off before a crowd again, and I thoroughly enjoyed my first Red Cross match for nine months. This was at Budleigh Salterton, on the East Devon coast. The club put on a match in which the young local assistant, 18-year-old Arnold Stickley, son of Fred Stickley the professional, partnered Lt.-Col. C. S. Cutler, R.M., a former Deal back- marker, against Capt. Frank ...

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... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Tribute ALL the Allied leaders have paid their tribute to those responsible for the early successes achieved in the Normandy campaign. Each has expressed surprise and satisfaction and has indicated that these successes represent a favourable augury for the future operations which are planned and will be fulfilled, presumably, according to a set time-table. But none ...

... Faced with the enormous responsibility of commanding the ships carrying the Allied Forces on the first stages of their assault on the Continent, and of supporting and sustaining them once there, no man is more fitted for this gigantic task than Sir Bertram Ramsay. His great powers of organisation and leadership are well known, and his experience of the problems of seaborne operations is second ...

... VEPtNPABILITY Since 1932 Britain's Radio Headquarters 1 have been located at Broadcasting House.- I London, where a round-the-clock news J and programme service employing 48 languages is maintained. The B.B.C. calls' to mind what millions throughout the world say of Champion Plugs, There's Dependability for you CLEAN PLUGS SAVE PETROL AND IMPROVE ENGINE PERFORMANCE n!Hiurn :hampion sparking ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK J Stories from Everywhere A CLERGYMAN was on a lecture tour, and after the first lecture in a certain county, a reporter from a local newspaper called to interview him. The lecturer asked him not to publish any details of the lecture, as it might the attendance at the other halls where more or less the same speech would be delivered in the county. The following morning, the ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Dummy Stories WITH the descent of Allied parachutists on to French soil there arose the supercharged heat wave of rumour. It was said that when one went up the Allied dummies they exploded or rose and struck one on the There were other rumours, mostly, I imagine, put about by the enemy, but I to feeling most disappointed in that no Allied soldier has as ...

... SPORT COUNTRY The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News Postage Rates i Vol. 177 No. 3612 JUNE 9, 1944 Entered as second-class U Mail matter at the nwh.,tAbrd lid*. Published Fortnightly Price 1/6 New York Post Office. ...

... By E. C. Large IN Devon and Cornwall, as in other counties where rela tively few potatoes were grown before the war, the total potato acreage is now very con siderable, but it is distributed over tens of thousands of farms, each with a few acres apiece. With high summer rainfall and humidity, blight usually attacks the haulms in July or August, sometimes in June, and the con sequent losses are ...

... H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT was present with her daughter, the Princess Alexandra, at the Ascot Horse Show and Gymkhana held on the race-course in aid of the Salute the Soldier Campaign Fund. There were nine classes and a parade arranged by the Berkshire Branch of the Driving Club. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Archibald Weigall, Bart., K.C.M.G., acted as chairman of the Committee, and both he and Mr. W. ...