... DREAD ENCOUNTER IN THE VILLAGE CHURCHYARD Magwitch (Finlay Currie), the runaway convict, frightens Pip (Anthony Wager), the village blacksmith's young friend, ordering him to bring him some food to eat and a file with which to remove his fetters. One of the opening scenes from the Cineguild film Great Expectations PIP LIYES IN MISERY That 's the way with this boy answer him one question and he ...

... PRINCE OF SPENDTHRIFTS (7).-- The truth emerges very plainly indeed. Corruption in all matters relating to the Turf had reached a point where chicanery could no longer be countered by chicanery, and a root-and-branch purge was necessary. For decades the vicious circle had widened and intensified the trouble, and men like Bentinck and Rous were just beginning to realise that the ethical founda ...

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... The Burden May Be Shifted Entirely To Indian Shoulders. Meanwhile British And Indian Warriors Still Guard The Passes As In The Days Of Desmond, V.C. By Harwood Steele THE North-West Frontier! There is magic-- Indian magic-- in the name. But is it still the Land of High Adventure, of a gallant little Indian and British Army guarding India's teeming millions against certain Powers and ...

... The Bird's Egg Fascinating Aspects Of One Of Nature's Wonders By Frank W. Lane A BIRD'S egg is a remarkable piece of work, and its manufacture inside the body of the hen is a complicated process. When the embryo egg has been formed it passes along a sort of conveyor belt and first one set of glands and then another adds bits to it until it emerges as the egg we know. The first glands cover ...

... Old Tales Re-told Wolf InThe Fold The Story of Father Girard and Mdlle. Cadiere W rittcn and Illustrated by F. Matania, R.I. NO nation can boast of a clean sheet in the matter of persecu tions and cruelties in the name of religion. Patriotic fervour has always conjured up in all of us, irrespective of nationality, an exag gerated vision of a glorious past, in spite of the fact that in this ...

... ^There XI She Blows The Days of the Whalermen of Moby Dick Fame have passed into the Limbo I of Forgotten Times. But the Chase for the Leviathan of the Icy Seas goes on anew By V Warren Armstrong mm OCEAN-GOING tugs nosed her great bulk gently alongside; deck and dock-hands passed the pipelines aboard, and the sea giant greedily took her fill of fuel oil, 21,000 tons of it, largest quantity ...

... HENRY COTTON'S truly remarkable play in the Star Tournament at Wentworth has aroused new hope for British glf. We had heard so much of the prowess of the Americans, Byron Nelson and others, that many felt that we might never be able to catch up with the new American standards. Now, Cotton, who by his articles, criticisms and Red Cross matches kept the game alive during the war, has given ...

... Tarrington Stock Wins Hereford Herd Book Society Show FENHAMPTON BOMBER, a grandson of the well-known Tarrington Broadside, won the championship at the Hereford Herd Book Society's two-day April Show and Sale. The Reserve Champion was also of Tarrington descent. The highest price paid at the sale was 450 guineas, but there was a strong demand for promising bulls bordering on the three-figure ...

... THERE were some good-quality repre sentatives of the breed at the Red Poll Cattle Society's Spring Show and Sale, and several of them were sold for prices around the 250-guinea mark. The judges were assisted in their tasks by members of Young Farmers' Clubs. Future farmers and stockowners are gaining valuable knowledge by working with their more experienced elders in this way. YOUTH AND ...

... Lincoln Red Shorthorns Cropwell Herd's Successes MR. E. L. PENTECOST'S Cropwell herd was prominent among the successful entries at the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn Association's Show and Sale at Lincoln. Cropwell Cameron won the championship for bulls, and Cropwell Caitiff 2nd was runner-up to the former in the class for bulls calved between August 1 and December 31, 1944, in which there were ...

... Planning How Best to Feed the World Farmers from 26 Nations Meeting in London FARMERS from all over the world will meet for the first time when the International Conference of Agricul tural Producers opens at Church House, Westminster on May 21. The chief object of the conference will be the formation of an International Federation of Agricultural Producers and the working out of a suitable ...