... 0 C^J A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King Abroad To such a high degree were the security measures concerning the King's visit to Italy taken that some members of His Majesty's own Household had no idea that the King was abroad until they read the official announcement in the daily papers. The absence of the Royal Standard from the flagstaff over Buckingham Palace was no indication ...

... 64 The White Cliffs of Dover The Film based on the Famous Poem Makes an Appealing Gesture to British and American Unity And now we stood On a bridge, where a poet came to keep Vigil while all the city lay asleep. 44 A curious background surely for a kiss Our first Westminster Bridge at break of day, Settings by Wordsworth, as John used to say. Susan (Irene Dunne), from an American small town, ...

... Farming in Essex Mr. and Mrs. Gosling and Their Family Packs Farm Little Mapleton Mrs. Gosling and Her Children Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Gosling The Saddleback Pigs are Fed A Family Outing with the Ponies Photographs by Swacbc Mr. and Mrs. Michael Spencer Gosling and their children live at Little Mapleton, Essex, where they are very busy farming 500 acres. Mr. Gosling, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S ...

... Right This photograph was taken on the occasion of an inspection by Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery. Front row Majors J. S. C. G. de Longueville, J. W. Hyde, C. R. P. Sweeney, M.C., Capt. W. E. S. Sturgeon, Lt.-Col. L. H. Richards, the Commanding Officer, Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, K.C.B., D.S.O., Majors B. J. FitzG. Donlea, M.C., W. D. Tighe-Wood, Capts. M. D. G. C. Ryan, J. R. St. J. ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Robotism My somewhat vague remarks the other day about the possibilities of the matic control of aircraft have brought me some interesting comments. reader takes me (metaphorically, thank goodness) to the railways contrasts the activities of the old-fashioned engine-driver and fireman those of the motor man. The motor man, who drives an electric train, has fewer ...

... nBHnHHHBMHHHMHHHBBIPPSBHHMKESiPQ AFTER THE CAPTURE OF COUTANCES. An American tank which was wrecked while passing along a mined street in this strategic key-point. Those sections which were not razed during the battle for the town were found to be heavily mined by the Germans. Coutances fell to the Americans on July 28, when two of their armoured columns joined up a mile to the north and then ...

... AUGUST being the traditional holiday month, it is perhaps excusable-- even though the war is still on-- to speculate about, and even to for mulate, plans for post-armistice vacations. After all we have read all this widely publicised post-war planning by various Government departments, so why not some individual post-war planning of our own? The first piece of good news I have acquired this ...

... Tt has now been definitely decided that Mr. Roosevelt is to stand for a fourth term of office. Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, will oppose him. Mr. Roosevelt's nomination was decided upon at an enthusiastic Convention at Chicago, of which we re produce a number of pictures on this page. But Vice- President Wallace will not run in harness with his present chief, as Senator ...

... O peculation still continues about Germany's next O secret weapon. The flying bomb has been with us for some weeks now the Germans are making our flesh creep with talk about V 2 the rocket bomb. In last week's issue we pub lished pictures of a Pas de Calais target attacked by R.A.F. heavies on July 17 and July 20. Here we give further pictures of the same target, taken by a reconnaissance ...

... BESIDES removing the Führer's pants and singeing the back of his head, that pancake mine must have set people in many latitudes specu lating afresh as to the manner in which this ghastly comedian will eventually remove himself or be removed. Hitler is rich in the sense that few mortals would appear to have had such a quiverful of possible endings. Most of us have only one or two in the offing, ...

... 'phe Fifth Army fought its way by coast 1 road and inland valley towards the plain just south of Pisa, the famous city on the lower Arno. Progress was made northwards by way of the nearest lateral valley when the American column had advanced far enough, the position of the Germans in Leghorn became untenable. With the port cleared of the enemy, the Fifth were then able to press across the ...

... KEEP GOING-- WITH CYRIL FLETCHER AND PHYLLIS MONKMAN-- DUE AT THE PALACE THIS WEEK. PHYLLIS MONKMAN as a Parisian Can-Can dancer in the gay and naughty nineties ROMA MILNE, ROBERTA HUBY and AVRIL ANGERS wear flowing negligees in Wallflowers Rainbow Corner BILLY TASKER, as an American G.I. looking at the picture of his girl back home. Right With the canary the aspidistra and the family groups ...