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... IT would not be difficult to tire quickly of fish. For long enough we have had to fall back on it for breakfast, lunch or supper. Too often there are periods when no inter esting fish is available. So we must make it Fish with a difference, and as we plan our menu think of some tempting variations. This can easily be achieved with the help of a tasty sauce or stuffing and an occasional ...

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... , who has just celebrated his forty-fourth year as huntsman to the New College and Magdalen Beagles. He is known to thousands of Oxford men, past and present, especially as during the packs history Trinity and Balliol have also been associated with it, and he has the deserved reputation of being a very fine sportsman. The pack was established in 1896 and now consists of eleven couples at ...

... Vice-Admiral Henry Egerton who received the Companionship of the Bath on his return from the Far East Brig. Sir Ronald Nesbitt-Haives who teas created a Knight Bachelor by His Majesty with Lady Nesbitt-Hawes S/Ldr. R. G. W. Oakley of Croydon, a Pathfinder, showing his wife and daughter his D.S.O. and D.F.C. SjLdr. G. Page with his wife and five-year-old niece. He also was invested with the D.S ...

... THE 1948 Grand National will be long remembered by the record crowds which descended on Aintree by road, rail, air and sea. Many things conspired to make the meeting memorable-- the perfect going and visibility under a sunny sky high among them-- but what made this great 'chase stand out against others of recent years was the achieve ment of Sheila's Cottage, first mare to win since 1902, who ...

... Taking the first fence. First of the Dandies leads Sheila's Cottage (inside, centre J Rear-Admiral ft. B. Jacomb and Vice- Admiral Sir Francis Marten, father of one of the King's Equerries Mrs. Thompson, the Hon. Isabel Monckton, youngest sister of Viscount Galway, and Capt. Feather stonhaugh Col. and Mrs. Dewhurst during an interval between the races Mr. Wallace with the Hon. Peter Ward and ...

... After seven and a half years on a plantation I visited Hollywood. There I washed my hands in film emulsion and couldn't get the darned stuff off I WAS born in a little place called Rhu, in Dumbartonshire, on May 9th, 1904. My father was an engineer, the seventh son of a Presbyterian minister who practised in County Argyll. I was the last of the seven arrivals. Looking back over forty years ...

... Sabretache THE Grand National usually furnishes a tale of woe, with not a few hard -luck stories tacked on to it, and this year was no exception. By the time these notes see the light of day they will of necessity be entirely retrospective. Repetition is the most boring thing in the world. Sometimes, however, a snapshot of the past comes in very handy for the modelling of the future, since it ...

... The Duke of Abercorn talking to Mr. S. F. Du Toit the South African Minister Delegate to the Argentine The High Commissioner and Mrs. Leif Egeland with the Lord Mayor of London Sir Frederick Wells Mrs. K. Pryce, who has come from Johannes burg to see the distribution of food parcels with the Lady Mayoress of London ...