... By Elizabeth Bowen I errorists THOSE who remember back to the cosy Edwardian days may recollect that, then, the word Nihilist made one's childish flesh creep. Across a Europe still secure and polite there travelled alarming stories from Imperial Russia there, one understood, any Tsar and his family went in constant peril from the Nihilist's bomb. Actually, at the time of which speak no Tsar ...

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... . Liberation ceremonies on the Dalmatian island of Vis MARSHAL TITO is standing on the right tchile a Yugoslav commander addresses his troops. Right: MRS. MARSIKA LAN- I CASTER is the only woman I who knew the secret of the I prefabricated harbours which 1 enabled us to invade Normandy. For over a year she worked on scale cardboard models for the job. She is an artist, the wife of an officer. ...

... HIGH-DE-HIGH AND HIGHER: PARIS HATS AND HAIR. AND THE PARIS SHOES. Liberation fashions in Paris may well make you gasp and they re meant to, for Paris has set out to show the ivorld that she can make models out of nothing, and that soaring extravagance can be achieved with bits and pieces, and, in fact, out of whatever the milliner can lay her hands on in a time of general shortage. Height, ...

... WE TAKE OFF DUR HAT TO- BELITA, for kein5 an almost U tripliitian ancer, under water, on ice, and in air. In her classic tutu BELITA limbers up on the brink of the pool. The water shimmers like champagne in the sunlight as the dancer leaps. Holding her breath she submerges, gracefully sinking to the floor of the pool, still smiling. Over the rock she vaults against heavy water-pressure, as ...

... MYSELF AT TDE PICTURES Ghosts and All That By James Agate WHAT is wrong with the British film is that it lacks the wit and fantasy of French pictures, while falling far behind Hollywood in ingenuity, splendour and old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness efficiency. I went to see a film the other evening principally because of the cast which contained almost every player of note in London mere tney ...

... No Medals is Esther McCracken's Saga of To-day's Unsung Heroines of the Home Martha Look, here are the stamps, and here is a list of the houses and what they generally want Martha Dacre Fay Campion) takes part in all £e Jacal actio, ties. One of her young guests, Paul Flolltott (Michael McNeile), an A.B. spending his leave in her home, offers his help unth the savings stamps ar,ha Martha is ...

... A New Judge The appointment of the Hon. Charles Romer K.C. to be a Justice of the High Court of Justice was announced recently. He receives a knighthood on his appointment. The new Judge is seen above with his wife The British Council and the Oxford Union Invite Americans to Dine The picture above shows some of those who attended the dinner at the Union Major Glas cock, Sir Richard Liv ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere PAT had bought a watch guaranteed for twelve months. At the end oi nine months, however, he reappeared at the shop and complained that the watch had stooped six months earlier when it had fallen into the Dies' trought But why on earth didn't you bring it back at once? inquired the jeweller. How could I replied Pat. We only killed the pig yesterday. I 'he ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Railway Airs UNLESS it is forcibly prevented, private, enterprise will always beat State enterprise. The railways have moved farther and faster than the chosen instrument in the establishment of peace-time airways. Under a convenient cloak of secrecy British Overseas Airways runs many lines. But we have no idea if they are well run; if they are economic; if they ...

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... By Q. Ji. Christian NO one can for long observe the behaviour of birds without wondering whether they do not possess some mysterious senses unknown to us. Consideration of bird migration, for instance, leaves the mind clouded with a dozen different enigmas. In what strange manner do birds realize that the time has come to make the perilous journey over strange lands and seas to some fresh ...