... By Elizabeth Bowen Red Indians FRANCIS PARKMAN was just twenty-three and still fresh from Harvard when, in the spring of 1846, he undertook a hazardous, but rewarding, journey. At college he had been reading law; and partly, perhaps, in youthful, adventure-loving reaction, he now sought great open spaces and the red men. He had already conceived the ambitious project of a history of the Old ...

... TAILORED TOWUCOATS Down the steps of Bush House, in the Strand, comes Joan, on her way to an important date. She is wearing a Windsmoor coat, made of a finely ribhed material, new and most attractive, with fitted waistline and outsize pockets. From Derry and Toms Kensington. In several colours. Price £16 17s. 4d. approx. Photographs by Dormer Cole Walking in the autumn sunshine outside ...

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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart The P.B.P. THE poor British public is so pushed about by the conflicting forces of propaganda that it can take its place beside the infantry as being per petually in a state of being sat upon. I do not know whether the P.B.P. or the P.B.I, is the more deserving of sympathy. After having been told repeatedly and in the loudest tones that the German air force was all ...

... 44 And gentlemen in England, now a-bed Shall think themselves occurs' d they were not here And hold their manhood cheap while any speaks That fought with us upon St. Crispin's day Welsh bowmen at the battle of Agincourt. The King s a bawcock and a heart of gold A lad of life, an imp of fame I kiss his dirty shoe I love the lovely bully Pistol (ROBERT NEWTON). 44 Suppose that you have seen, The ...

... ROBERT HELPMANN'S MORALITY BALLET MIRACLE IN THE GORBALS. The Glasgow slum crowd turns against the Stranger (ROBERT HELPMANN, top right when they see him with the penitent Prostitute (CELIA FRANCA) at the window of her house. The Official (DAVID PALTENGHI) tries to restrain the Stranger (ROBERT HELPMANN) when the beautiful Suicide (PAULINE CLAYDEN) is brought in. Dancing in the slums of ...

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... From Aachen Down to Metz INTO THE CENTRE OF METZ: Men of an American Infantry Division move through the streets of the great fortress town, which had been com pletely encircled by the beginning of this week THE TANKS PLOUGH THROUGH HEAVY MUD AS THE U.S. NINTH ARMY OPEN THEIR OFFENSIVE IN GERMANY This picture was taken on the first day of the advance as the tanks opened the way for the infantry ...

... On left Along the road to Walcheren, which leads through South Beveland, lies the village of Kloetinge, wrote a Dutch correspondent now with the Canadian First Army. It is a village, like so many on this island, which forms part of the Dutch Province of Zee- land friendly, unassuming houses cluster round its church, and its church can be seen from far and wide, for the country is flat, lying ...

... one o clock in the morning, on November 7, the German General Daser, in command of the 70th White Bread Division, suddenly decided to give in at Middelburg, on the island of Walcheren. At that moment there were fewer than 250 British and Canadian troops in the old and picturesque fifteenth-century town. The German General had summoned all his commanders and told them to parade their men in the ...

... THE MOST-DREADED ROOM IN PARIS Room 322 in the Gestapo Headquarters, where the Nazi Security Service Chief had his private office. When the Germans left they smashed all the furniture in this room, slashing the upholstery to ribbons with their bayonets. Many Frenchmen must have suffered interrogation and worse here THE UNDERGROUND HEADQUARTERS OF THE F.F.I. IN PARIS The doorway on the right ...

... THE WORK OF THE SHIPBUILDERS OF MERSEYSIDE From left to right-- S. Cromelholme, a borer, 61 years of age 35 years in ship work J. Mahon, riveter, 56 35 years in ship work Charles Ashort, marine engineer fitter, 45--24 years in ship work J. Kelley, riveter, 66 40, years in ship work. The curtain which has covered the shipyards of Mers^yside and other British ports during the war may now be ...