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... WE APPLAUD DON BRADMAN, for being acclaimed king of batsmen. Last week Don Bradman made his formal farewell to cricket after the Australian Test team's most successful tour of the British Isles. His good-bye speech was made at a luncheon given in his honour at the Savoy which was attended by distinguished cricketers and others. Lord Gowrie presented him with an antique silver replica of the ...

... ANITA D'RAY, who seems to float above the stage in our picture, obtained her 4* A flying licence on September 10. Next day, having logged only seven hours* solo flying, she won third place in the 44 Forced Landing competition held by the West London Aero Club at White Waltham airfield. She was the only woman among twenty competitors. THE record dive achieved by Petty Officer Diver William ...

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... Cdinburab festival By IVOR BROWN EDINBURGH, in Festival once more, is acting up to its own version of the familiar proverb: if at first you do succeed, try, try again. Last year it was the city that said Yes to a very considerable challenge, and now the admirable Yes Men have prevailed a second time. To hold, nearly 400 miles north of London, an International Festival of the Arts which ...

... . EDINBURGH'S second Festival opened in historic St. Giles' Cathedral with an inaugural service rich in music, pageantry and colour. Civic dignitaries, heralds, mayors and provosts in their robes, constables of Holyrood, distinguished men of law, divinity, the arts, marched to processional strains from the organ. Sunlight glistened on maces, tabards, embroidered robes. A brilliant trumpet ...

... Q£2P the XIV Olympiad the PRESIDENT, Mr. J. Sigfrid Edstrim, send s us this message You have asked me for my opinion of the Olympic Games in London. 1948. I have taken a leading part in eight Olympic Games and am glad to say that the London Games, 1948, were one of the best. The Games cannot enforce the peace for which the whole world is longing, but they give the youth of the world an ...

... . THE ceremony of lighting the flame was performed at Olympia, Peloponnesus, by a Greek girl, from an olive-twig ignited by burning-glass from the sun's rays. Swift runners bore the Torch to Katakolon a Greek destroyer took it to Corfu it travelled by British frigate to Bari. From thence the chain of 1600 runners carried the Torch to Wembley, where the 1600th runner circled the arena before ...

... THE OLYMPIC YACHT- RACING IN TORBAY WE can look back on the Torbay yachting with a great deal of satisfaction at the way it was organised, and a mild feeling of disappointment that all our aces did not take tricks. Torbay is the largest tide-free stretch of calm water to be found on our coasts and, we may add, the most beautiful. It is, however, only calm when the wind is westerly. A hard ...

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... . EACH of these imaginative photographs is powerfully dramatic each has its story to tell. From the boy at the oars on a still mountain lake the imprisoned captive with the light filtering through a barred window the Red Square under snow at midnight to the ruffle of water breaking on a sea- bound rock. They may be seen with many others, including that on our front page, at the 39th Annual ...