... r 7 s End of a Run: The young son of 1. ly Orr-Leivis ivho is back again in Europe after six years in Canada A Winter Sleigh Ride The Marquise Ada Mary de Cramayel the English-born younger daughter of Sir John Latta Preparingfor a Downhill Run Captain Bill Bracken and his wife with Lieut. -Cdr. Nigel Cox who recently suffered a serious ski-ing accident A Stiff Climb Captain Philip Pratt with ...

... PUSOILLJ i PARIS If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter Addison A few weeks ago I rather spread myself on this page over a description of a revue rehearsal at the Theatre Pigalle. The letter, however, went astray in the Christmas rush, and I felt somewhat foolish when I met pals of the Show Business and various other Pen- ...

... The name of Arthur Bliss as one of our leading composers has been familiar to the musical world for many years. Until 1935 he was perhaps best known for Morning Heroes, his choral work on the 1914-18 war (in which he served), but in that year he was introduced to a much wider public as the composer of the music for the film of H. G. Wells's prophetic book Things To Come. Two years later he ...

... The Perth Royal Golfing Society held its annual meeting for the first time since 1938 on the North Inch course. None of the competitors revived the pre-war custom of playing in the Society's red coats and hats The Earl of Breadalbane with his partner, Mr. D. J. Molteno, on the first tee I Ml ruiWM I iU. I MHSH9V; -XfeT .VU J? Mr. W. A. Dewhurst Brig.-Gen. Reddie and Mr. D. Smythe arriving on ...

... FEW Sports Meetings have rivalled-- in surprise and excitement-- the Oxford and Cambridge post-war revival at the White City last Saturday. The track was heavy and the time slow, but who cared? The announcement of a record for J. P. S. Gibson's 1 ft. victory over J. W. E. Mark in the half mile or M. N. Green's inches win in the mile against J. C. E. Wilson would merely have refined-- for the ...

... BY THE National Hunt Season has been so good and so interesting almost from its commencement in October that it is the Grand National and not the opening of the Flat Racing Season which is getting all the limelight. The Grand National is to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on Friday next, and appearances are that there will be a big field. Acceptances were due to be published last Wednesday. No ...

... By RAYMOND BUSH LAST summer I took a friend of mine from the south-west, who has a pretty good garden, to see some fruit farms. He needed cheering, for the blizzard and cold snap at the end of April had hit his part of the country hard. He told me that unless he could buy some fruit somewhere he saw little prospect of any jam in the store cup board. He evidently thought that 1 was deep in the ...

... ENGLAND'S great recovery in the second half of a game full of excitement was the highlight of the England v. Scotland match at Twickenham. At half-time the Scots were leading by eight points to nil, but the spectators were treated to a complete transformation shortly afterwards, and the English team won by a placed goal, a dropped goal and penalty goal to a placed goal and a try 12 points to 8 ...

... RECORD U.S. CELERY CROP FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT Westminster, Monday March 25. SOME interesting figures relating to the financial affairs of the National Stud since 1916, when it was established, are given in a report presented recently to the House of Commons by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, Mr. G. C. Upcott. The report shows that the net accumulated trading profit from ...

... WITH the world food shortage the most urgent problem of the new year, perhaps it is as well that there is a paper shortage. There is no evidence that the Ministry of Agriculture, the N.F.U. (chivalrously acquitting the past and present Governments of blame for what, in the main, is the result of the world crop failures), or other agricultural organisations are short of it. Exhortations to grow ...

... Tanks to Plougjis BRITISH manufacturers, since the autumn of last year, have had difficulties which American producers never had to face or were able to put behind them on VJ-Day. This is particularly true of the agricultural implement industry. In the States this production never had to close down indeed, it was increased through the huge orders from Britain and Russia. The actual weapons of ...

... SUTTON'S READING SUTTON'S READING FOR ALL FARM SEEDS Wrife (or a copy of SUTTON'S FARMERS' YEAR BOOK for 1946 FREE ON REQUEST J ...