... HERBERT TERRY SONS LTD., I Hi luckv..lV6 0ot tHi Ait(|lcpoig0 T TREASURE my Anglepoise because it takes any one of iooi angles at a finger touch, puts the light right 011 the book or object, never sags or droops, and takes up very little room. I save a lot on light bills as I need only a 20 or 40 watt bulb the light being so i nicely concentrated. So you'll understand why Anglepoise orders ...

... ■■■JJJT-- llkB ■SSmi At the end of November the 10,000th aluminium house to come off the production-lines in Britain was handed over to Brighton Corporation. At the moment sixty or seventy aluminium houses are being produced every day, and it is hoped by next autumn to have reached a total of 55,000. Among the biggest producers of aluminium houses are Hawksley's, of Gloucester, who have ...

... No ships are held in greater affection than the Australian grain-racers, and it is good to know that at least a few of them may sail again on the Cape Horn route, though it is probable that their racing days are done. In the following notes Alan Villiers, who won fame by his world voyages in the 44 Joseph Conrad tells the story of the survivors of the once mighty fleet of windjammers and ...

... In the present state of medical knowledge Never has good health of the individual and of the nation been a more vital necessity than at present. Never have doctors been more ready to admit that the medical discoveries of to-morrow may contradict the accepted beliefs of to-day. Yet one health-truth is unassailable to with stand the strain of these harassing days, nerves need adequate supplies ...

... A LONDON NEWSLETTER t, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Appeasement Has Failed.-- It does at last appear that British patience is exhausted in Palestine. How our troops have endured in restraint and patience so long the intolerable Conditions and irritations imposed on them by the outrages of the Hebrew Thugs and by the apathy or fatuity of the Jewish organisations of authority, passes our compre ...

... THE MAN WHO NEARLY HELD AMERICA TO RANSOM Mr. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mineworkers, seen as he left the Federal District Court at Washington, D.C., after being fined 10,000 dollars by Federal Judge Goldsborough on a contempt of court charge for refusal to comply with a restraining order. At the same time his union was fined 3,500,000 dollars. For a further four days the miners ...

... A MOMENT OF UNSURPASSED HORROR This was the scene as a disastrous fire swept through the Winecoff Hotel at Atlanta, Georgia, at least 116 people losing their I ves. Many guests are seen leaning from the windows and fixing the lengths of knotted sheets 1 which they later made their escape. Most of those who died were caught in the early stampede THE EARLY STAGES OF THE OUTBREAK Fire engines ...

... A dmiral Byrd, who has crossed both Poles by aeroplane, is now on his way south with thirteen ships on one of the greatest Polar ex peditions of all time. His objects are manifold, among them being the testing of U.S. naval equip ment in high-freeze conditions and the mapping of the Antarctic Continent from heavy transport planes. There is also a possibility that uranium may be discovered in ...

... VmI 1 1 I J |^H J 1 1 |ij|aflMA||y|^H|k.!] mmmmm The home news of the past ten days has been largely dominated by the weather, and with snow falling in Scotland and in many parts of East Anglia, floods in the Thames Valley, and heavy seas battering at our coastal defences, there has been no lack of variety. The Thames floods have been particularly serious, almost rivalling those which ...

... T'he partial destruction of Stratford-on-Avon Town Hall, which occurred after the close of a farmers' ball, involves the loss of one of the most celebrated Gains borough portraits. This picture of David Garrick was bought by the Corporation direct from the painter, who was paid £63, and the Corporation spent a further £74 on a frame for their acquisition. It was one of Gains borough's five ...

... I j^uring the war, when the tunnelling for London's Under ground extension between Liverpool Street and Strat ford was used as an air-raid shelter, there was a disaster at Bethnal Green Station, many losing their lives in a panic on the stairways, and last week, shortly after the new service had been inaugurated, there was another disaster when one train crashed into another on the loop line ...

... BIBB MhHH IN PARIS LAURENCE OLIVIER AS KING LEAR IN LONDON Laurence Olivier outside I the West London Police Court. After I a brilliant reception at the Theatre des I Champs Elys^es, Laurence Olivier returned I to London to give evidence against the I teacher, Herbert Wanbon, who assaulted I him and injured his left hand just before I he went to Paris. On one occasion, I Wanbon embraced Mrs. ...