... One of the youngest men of his rank in the R.A.F., Air Vice-Marshal Harry Broadhurst took command of a fighter group of the Second Tactical Air Force in June. He was one of the first pilots to land in Normandy on D+4 Day, and within a few days had transferred his headquarters to French soil. In July he piloted the Prime Minister when he flew over the Allied lines in Normandy. Air Vice-Marshal ...

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... -^4 By Sabretache Datvn A MOST charming Voice recently informed the massed brains of the B.B.C. that that hour which finds the night at odds with the dawn, made its owner feel like nothing upon earth. This condition is by no means abnormal, for there are many to whom Dawn's Left Hand feels exactly like a wet fish, and who make no profession at all to be fit for human consumption until the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Happiness is an Odd Thing JANIE suddenly said, Do you think, Granny, that Great-Aunt Alice was ever happy? And Mrs. Parkington answered, No, my dear. And, after a moment, she said, Happiness is an odd thing. Perhaps people who have never known it are not really unhappy. I do not know whether Alice ever knew that she was unhappy. Sometimes I think only that life was ...

... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THIS story comes from Time to Laugh (Partridge Publications):-- The Glasgow Rangers and Celtic football match is always an event to stir the emotions of the crowd, and the rivalry between the two supporting sides runs very high. The Protestant v. Catholic element is an important factor in the matter. At one match a spectator loudly cheered when Celtic ...

... . 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 ...

... The Life of Chopin Paris in the 19th Century; George Sand, Liszt, Paganini, Balzac and Pleyel Balzac a fabulous fig ure mentally and phy sically Peter CusaneUi) The young Chopin is forced to flee his native Poland. He leaves be hind his boyhood sweetheart Con- stantia Cornel Wilde NinaFoch) George Sand a uoman of letters, of masterful disposition and passionate disregard of convention falls ...

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... -^4 By Sabretache Chifney ONCE upon a time, which usually means a long while ago, there was a famous professor named Sam Chifney. He was a jockey, but a real professor none the less. He rode with his head, and he won a tremendous lot of races, just because he was clever enough to put into practice a theory which he had evolved. Sam's idea was this: that, if before n aking your final dash, you ...