... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... i Balfour and Her Childr CoUJltess JeUicoe, lady Myrtle Baljour jellUoe and C°u Lady nuhL ^hmond Brown a :ouin- who a, u receded h '°'fe °fU She M the second dn, t cle this J ad Lady Ulrica the lte Br formerly M °ng, and was marri 'he Green llZal ^r Aer son and J l Rlchmond daughters at 1 miy '■Psx?-** 'he Hon parone'- '33. n ,Everrd a i Usband teas n,a''°n of rside '°ygrophed The ...

... -^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 ...

... London Newsreel People at the World Premiere of The Climax, at the Odeon Cinema, London Celebrating France's Liberation The Princess Royal tvas received by Lord Bessborough President of the Institut Francois, South Kensington at a special reception held there to celebrate the liberation of France, and to meet M. Rene Massigli (right), the new French Ambassador I Here is Mme. Mas sigli, wife ...

... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- DR. C. K. ALLEN, M.C., M.A., D.C.L., J.P., was recently awarded the Swiney Prize by the Royal Society of Arts for his work 44 Law in the Making. The President, Dr. E. F. Armstrong, is seen presenting it to him. The prize is a cup with a cheque in it. Dr. Allen is Oxford Secretary to Rhodes Trustees and Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. He won his M.C. in the last war. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 272 I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Guildhall Review 1944,-- The Premier is a master of words, and masters of all arts can, and do, take risks which lesser men dare not take. I judge (and it is of no importance) that Mr. Churchill took less time to prepare his Guildhall 1944 speech than any other of his notable public war speeches. What he said was as sound as ever in sense, ...

... THE END OF THE TIRPITZ Sunk in Tromso Fiord by the R.A.F. on November 12 On Sunday morning last the great German battle ship Tirpitz met her end. Twenty-nine Lancasters of Bomber Command, making a surprise attack, knocked out the last serviceable enemy capital ship, in the Tromso Fiord, where she had taken shelter on her way back to Germany from the Alten Fiord, in the northern part of Norway ...

... VY/hen the sea-walls surrounding the island of Walcheren were breached by the R.A.F., the floods were slow to start. The area around Westkapelle where the first breach was made was, it is true, quickly under water but it took some days for the whole island to become affected. Then it was announced that nine-tenths of Walcheren was under water. How true that estimate was may be seen from the ...

... TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE.-- In the course of my life, the lengthening journey has been sweetened by several friendships. I fancy I have been blessed with a high average in that line of con fectionery. Among my friends there still survive three, or perhaps four, who have taught me something of the value of truth in intercourse. If you reflect, you will probably agree that in human relations truth ...

... Bankers Barclays Ltd., I Bankers Barclays Ltd., I Ding Dong Bell-- Pussy's in the Well Bui have you ever thought of the thousands of little children down the well hidden from sight, but unhappy, sometimes terrified, often hungry and shamefully neglected For instance three children, mother less and with a drunken father, unlil a few days ago roamed the streets dirty and miserable and a ...

... . The Bishop (WALTER PIERS) listens appalled when Mr. Crawley, perpetual curate of Hogglestock (FELIX AYLMER), goaded beyond endurance, turns on the redoubtable Mrs. Proudie (WINIFRED OUGHTON). Mrs. Grantley (JOAN HENLEY) meekly hears the Archdeacon (MILTON ROSMER) threaten to disinherit their son Henry (DENNIS PRICE) if h( continues to court Grace Crawley. JOAN HENLEY as Mrs. Grant- ley, wife ...