... SETTING NEW STANDARDS OF COMFORT AND BEAIJTT FOIt MANN YEARS TO COME i THE NEW MINX MAGNIFICENT A full-sized family car, outstandingly new in design and construction, lighter in weight ImlriH'iulrnt front siiKppngiiin Exceptional covered lug'ga^r accommodation Optienrve windscreen v New and improved steering: Fni ...

... BRITAIN PAYS £4,000 FOR A BUST OF VOLTAIRE-- JEAN ANTOINE HOUDON'S MARBLE BUST OF THE SAGE OF FERNEY, WHICH HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM UNDER THE BEQUEST OF CAPTAIN H. B. MURRAY, AND WITH ASSISTANCE FROM THE NATIONAL ART COLLECTIONS FUND In February 1778, at the age of eighty-four, Voltaire left the seclusion of Ferney, where he had lived for twenty years, and ...

... MAUNO LOA ERUPTS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1942 An aerial view of the Hawaiian volcano as the lava began to flow from the crater. Recon naissance planes from Wheeler Air Base patrolled the area, ready to report any fresh developments which might imperil the lives of the islanders. Mauno Loa (13,760 ft.) has been erupting at intervals with considerable violence, that of 1868 being particularly ...

... fyTT^Kjii H ft j iuKinTf! i!Z5SB mi i il-l'Ifl B THE WEST FRONT OF WELLS CATHEDRAL, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF EARLY ENGLISH ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE: It is ornamented with over 300 statues, many of them perfect specimens of Medieval sculpture. The sculptures, added about the year 1280, are attributed to English artists, although some authorities have suggested that they are the ...

... I n the past Wales has had many towns which put all their eggs in one basket. In these days they are becoming fewer, as witness the recent developments in the southern part of the Principality, where new light industries have come to bolster up the economy once dependent almost wholly on coal and steel. Blaenau Ffestiniog, in Merionethshire, is an example of the older order. Since Roman times ...

... THE report that the Government has I.C.I. on its short list of about-to-be-nationalised organisations seems scarcely credible. True, Sir Stafford Cripps was offered the chairmanship of the Billingham Division of I.C.I. in the early '20's by Lord McGowan, but refused; true, too, that Sir Stafford, having served with the Red Cross in France in 1914, became assistant-superintendent of H.M. ...

... LIKE 44 THE WINDMILL, IT NEVER CLOSED: No. 24, Cheyne Row, which surely ranks first among the literary shrines in London, was recently reported to have been reopened to the public following the restoration of bomb damage. In actuality the house never closed, and even when the restoration is being carried out it is probable it will still remain open. Carlyle came to live in Chelsea in 1834, ...

... The emergence of Israel among the comity of nations has been accepted by America and Russia. Britain has not accorded recognition to the new State. Into the midst of this tense and tangled situation came the shooting down of five British aircraft while engaged in what the Israelis alleged was an armed reconnaissance over Israeli positions within the Negeb, on the Palestine side of the ...

... I HARRY POLLITT IN BULGARIA The leader of the British Communist Party addressing the Fifth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Sofia. According to Mr. Arthur Deakin, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, the British Communists have a plan to disrupt British industry, and they are anxious to act in Britain as they did in France last year THIS PICTURE HAS LED TO ...

... HUS! THE TYROS OF THE SLOPES WHO MAY ONE DAY BE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS Malcolm Curtis (aged seventeen), Eric Fleuret (aged seven teen) and Paul Burrell (aged fifteen), members of the party of 100 British school boys who have been enjoying a ski ing instruction holiday at Murren. Their enthu siasm is tremendous, and since their arrval most of them have made marked prog: ess ON THE NURSFRY SLOPES ...

... I ast week there were reports that Israeli troops were advancing towards Akaba, near the meeting- pcint of the Transjordan, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian frontiers. Apart from the political objective a fait accompli to confront the United Nations the occupation of the Negeb down to Akaba would not only completely cut the land communica tions between Egypt and the rest of the Arab world, but would ...

... n May 1915, when Mr. Churchill left the Admiralty but still remained a member of the Cabinet and the War Council, he found himself in a position of knowing everything but able to do nothing. To say the least of it, he found the situation irksome, and then it was, he says, that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue out of charity and out of chivalry. Some experiments in the country one Sunday ...