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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. In Military Occupation. --The information that in 1949 one-seventh part of the County of Wiltshire is in the occupation of the fighting services for training and accom modation is an eye-opener to the public which in due course should result in a reaction which must be felt by the Ministries concerned. We are in danger of a third world war and ill- prepared to ...
... THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AT THE CENTENARY DINNER OF THE HARDWICKE SOCIETY, THE BAR DEBATING SOCIETY His Royal Highness reading an amusing extract from the 1927-31 minute-book of the Society during his address to members and guests in the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn. The President of the Society, Mr. R. Hendry White (Inner Temple), was in the chair THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH WITH THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ...
... OXFORD TOOK THE LEAD FROM THE START AND HELD IT UNTIL TEN STROKES FROM THE FINISH Oxford (background) won the toss and took the Middlesex station. They are seen forging ahead. Davldge, the Oxford stroke, did 37\ in the first minute. Cambridge did not get off well, and for a while it looked as if the Dark Blues might go right away from their rivals. At the end of the second minute Oxford were ...
... The idea of the parachute medical unit is to make it possible to deal at short notice with casualties at aircraft accidents in areas which would otherwise be inaccessible. Teams would be ready at air stations to leave at a moment's notice for an aircraft accident, fully qualified to deal with casualties and equipped for a stay of seven days. In time of war they would work in the forward areas. ...
... HI BONDI BEACH, WHERE THE PEOPLE OF SYDNEY GO IN THEIR THOUSANDS TO SURF- AND SUN-BATHE Bondi, lying on the South Pacific Ocean, but less than four miles from Sydney's Central Station, is the most popular of all the popular beaches, but there is choice in plenty at Manly, Chowder Bay, and Watson's Bay, all lying just within the harbour at Carbanta, on the Paramatta River at Coogee, near ...
... THE MODERN KASPAR HAUSER Fourteen-year-old Gerald Sullivan standing in the police station at boston, Massa chusetts, clothed in the rags in which he escaped from a locked room in his home. The police, who charged the boy's mother with neglect, declared that Gerald had been kept prisoner for ten years by Mrs. Sullivan to keep secret her sin in bearing an illegitimate child. Mrs. Sullivan ...
... y [T[' \4Wii firKl In the past colleges have been designed too much like prisons, declares Mr. Howard Robertson, who is responsible for the planning of Hatfield's new technical college the college with an aeronautical bias. Mr. Robertson has tried to design a building which can be easily altered to meet the constantly changing needs of modern education. The mam hall will hold 650 students at ...
... ARTISTIC ELEVATION Chatunni Panicker and Shiva Shankar put in some energetic practice for their performance with Mrinalini Sarabhai's company of Indian dancers at the St. Martin's Theatre. Kathakali dances are being performed for the first time in a West End theatre CHATUNNI PANICKER AND SHIVA SHANKAR DEMONSTRATE DRAMATIC HAND MOVEMENTS The two dancers came to London with Mrinalini Sarabhai's ...
... The fable of the fish and the facts xx There was once a Fish so huge and old and cunning that no-one A said him nay, and so wonderfully ugly that his friends avoided Vv the subject. Great king cried a school of small whales, A saluting as they passed. Tide-breather Stream-snorter Vi Storm-swallower The Fish grinned terribly. Poetry, v, said he, Poetry Now, in plain human prose, what yt am I ...
... 1. THE CHRISTIAN BERGH LOSES HER WAY: In a blinding snowstorm the American tanker, bound for Hoboken from Petraf, Greece, missed New York Harbour and ended up in glonously in less than 2 ft. of water and within 2 ft. of a sea wall at Sea Bright, New Jersey. None of the crew was injured as the grain ship went aground, and before the opportunity was taken to refloat the Christian Bergh at high ...
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... CONAN DOYLE-- There is an enor mous bibliography concerning Conan Doyle and his works. That is natural, for he attained and still preserves an immense success as a teller of stirring tales, and was no mean showman in his lifetime. J. M. Barrie, who affected to shun publicity, got more of it than many a writer who went out openly to get it in the way of business, like Walpole or Caine. Doyle ...