... QUEEN MARY ENTERS ON HER EIGHTIETH YEAR-- LEAVING WESTMINSTER ABBEY AFTER ATTENDING MORNING SERVICE ON HER SEVENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY The Queen Mother seen with Canon A. C. Don, the new Dean of Westminster Queen Mary was born at Kensington Palace on May 26, 1867, the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke of Teck and a great-grand- daifghter of George III. On Sunday last the Queen Mother ...

... The little Bedfordshire village of Elstow, famed as the birthplace of John Bunyan, was en fete last week for its annual May Festival which this year was combined with the village s victory celebrations. During the day thirteen- year-old June Thompson, the newly-crowned Queen of the May, drove round the green in her flower- bedecked car and at the same time the other children of the village ...

... mm I illjV The De Havilland Dove, its trials complete and its specification finalised, is now beginning to flow off the production line, and already purchasers from fifteen countries have come forward to place orders for this £14,000 machine brought out by the De Havilland Company. The Dove is a light feeder-line aircraft incorporating many of the features normally associated with big air ...

... When Bruce Woodcock, the British heavyweight champion, flew back to Britain after his defeat by Tami Mauriello, the accompanying pictures came with him. They depict the closing stages of his fight at Madison Square Garden when, after leading on points and appearing to be heading for a comfortable victory, he was knocked out by a right hook from his hard-hitting opponent. Woodcock is now ...

... BHMNHHH BOOTS BY THE THOUSAND-- U.N.R.R.A. MAKES A BOLD ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE FOOTWEAR FOR ILL-SHOD EUROPE A scene in t Science Hall of one of the buildings which was to have been used for the 1942 World's Fair in Rome, but which new co stitutes a giant boot factory. Here boots discarded by the United States Army, many of them not in pairs, are sorted out, fitted with rub! soles and heels, and ...

... The plan to hold an International Exhibition in London exactly a century after the exhibition organised with such conspicuous success by the Prince Consort in the grounds of Hyde Park is one that has met with universal acclamation, and has, at the same time, promoted a controversy. One school of thought inclines to the opinion that the World Fair of 1951 should also take place in one of the ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i June 8.-- I have kept silence even from good words on this contentious subject of the Peace or Victory March. I have read the heady pros and the headier cons in the Press, and heard them in trains and buses and clubs. The whole history of this fixture is an example of the evils of Government-at-high-pressure. When you have a Government preoccupied with drafting and ...

... The Saga which arrived in the Thames last week on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg, and has since returned to Sweden carrying the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden as passengers, is the newest, largest, and fastest ship of the Svenska Lloyd fleet. Her visit to London Bridge, which aroused the greatest interest in the City, will not be repeated regularly, as in the middle of the month ...

... IN SEARCH OF SPEED The Bell Aircraft Corporation's L39 makes its bow. This machine, with its wings swept back at an angle of 35 (leg., is the subject of experimentation at Buffalo, New York State, where the designers are attempting to solve the problem of attaining speeds faster than sound. The United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics is taking an official interest in the design THE PLANE WITH ...

... x 7 omen's cricket has come into its own again after tending V to languish during six years of war, and in many parts the country women players have already played their first itches of the season. The Xwaafians, who are seen in these tures in action against Brentwood High School, are a wly-formed team made up of past and present members of ne Women's Auxiliary Air Force. For the convenience ...

... SOLDIERS LEARN THE ARTS OF PEACE AT LUTON HOO ONE of the most imaginative actions on the part of the War Office was the foundation a few months ago of Formation Colleges, with the object of reversing the process of turning civilians into soldiers and, in fact, preparing military personnel for civilian life. In very many instances the students at these colleges have practically no experience of ...

... ^m\ Of all the arrangements for Victory Day the organisation of the fly-past Is possibly the most complicated, as, in addition to the Jet Meteors, thirty-two other R.A.F. squadrons will fly past the saluting base in the Mall, headed by a Hurricane flown by a Battle of Britain pilot. The fly-past will take place from 1 2.50 p.m. to 1.10 p.m. on June 8. squadron succeeding squadron at intervals ...