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... START OF THE SECOND RESCUE MISSION TO THE GREENLAND ICE CAP A C 54 towing a glider as it took off from Westover, Massachusetts, en route to Greenland to help in the rescue of the airmen marooned on the ice cap. The attempts with towed gliders failed. In two pictures on the following pages a successful rescue With a glider is depicted. This was on the scene of the Yukon crash MAROONED ON THE ...
... FORTY months after the fabulous island was retrieved for Britain, thanks to Admiral Fraser's dash across the sea from Tokio Bay, Hong-Kong scans the horizon afresh with mounting interest not untinged by anxiety; but this time eyes are focussed on the Chinese mainland. It is not a new experience. Twenty-one years ago, Hong-Kong had cause to be concerned for the same reason as now. That was when ...
... ROME PREPARES WELL IN ADVANCE FOR THE INVASION OF THE HOLY YEAR Situated in the vicinity of St. Peter's, this hotel, now in course of construction, will accommodate 400 visitors. In addition, it will contain a theatre for religious performances and lectures. How many people will visit Rome in the Holy Year it is impossible to say, but throughout 1950 there will be a constant flow of pilgrims, ...
... I Dritish East Africa is involve in a vast scheme of devda ment. Whatever the merits o the groundnut-sunflower scheny. however much it may be deride; it is not to be doubted that i: impact upon standards of and ways of life in East Africa be tremendous. In the pa twenty years or so many of Kenyan natives have develop; from the primitive tribal sir through the aid of the network ol mission ...
... ALTHOUGH I am writing this in only the first week of January, 1949, the Albert Hall management has received enough inquiries to book the building solid until June of 1950. And the only reason why there are still vacancies after that date is that Mr. C. S. Taylor, the manager, has deliberately refused to book more than eighteen months ahead. The Albert Hall has already recovered from the ...
... HThe public-house and fun fair musical-box of the twentieth century, dispensing hot rhythm for a penny a time, has lost all touch with its remotest ancestor, the seventeenth- century barrel organ which used to be played in English churches, and with its refined Victorian predecessors, those neat little instruments, Swiss and French in origin, which played The Old Hundredth, 44 Nancy Lee, and ...
... TROLLOPE'S notice in D.N.B. occurs in Vol. XIX and was by Dr. Richard Garnett. It contained an appraisement worth quoting as a very sound judgment and a prophecy which modern critics have proved exactly true:-- His work may fall into temporary oblivion, but when the twentieth century desires to estimate the nineteenth, his novels will be disinterred and studied with an attention accorded to no ...
... I ondon is well served with Cmderellas this season. At Covent Garden, Moira Shearer and Violetta Elvin take the part on alter nate nights in Frederick Ashton's new three-act ballet. At the London Palladium, Roma Beaumont, as Cinderella, has Evelyn Laye for her Prince Charming and the support of Tommy Trinder as Buttons. The King's Theatre, at Hammersmith, has Joan Burden in the name-part and C ...
... I THE PERFECT ALTERNATIVE 1 TO IMPORTED HAVANAS The Havana leaf in Burlingtons is of the finest quality Coronas 7/7 Petit Coronas 2/'^ ...
... This news makes names These well established companies in the paper-conversion trade have ust changed their names. They have done so to mark their association n a Bowater packaging service. They are BOWATERS FIBRE CONTAINERS Limited of Purley Way, Croydon, Surrey formerly the Acme Corrugated Paper and Box Company Limited). BOWATERS PAPER BAGS Limited of Lever St., Bolton, Lanes. (formerly W. J ...
... BRLLEANT RESEARCH brings Dual Hearing Aid to the DEAF The Osray, by the flick of a finger brings to you a newly devel oped field of hearing. MAGNETIC HEARING NOW POSSIBLE. OssiCaide have now produced a Dual-purpose Miniature Hearing Aid. In addition to its acknowledged microphonic accomplishments, by M the harnessing of Magnetic Audio Frequencies, it orings hearing witnout sound to tne deal, ...
... The Tsetse Fly and Sleeping Sickness In England They Have Found The Drug To Combat Its Bite THE Imperial Chemical Industries Labora tories at Blacklcy, Manchester, are the base for the new attack on the tsetse fly, the scourge of Africa, which by carrying minute parasites from beast to beast kills the infected animals or reduces them to dwarfed and emaciated creatures and has made cattle- ...