... 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 ...

... from the Cote Basque to the Cote Vermeille on the Mediterranean-- offer all the year round holiday enjoyment under a southern sun. For further information apply to any Travel Agent or the French National Tourist Office, 179 Piccadilly, London, IV. I ...

... f h e dSHHHi: I mm. \Jrhe M The famous Red Ring returns a decoration won for distinguished conduct in he field of endurance and safety and, more than tha a mark of pride in craftsmanship and of confidence in the road performance of the Finest Tyres Made. Why . TYRES are the Finest Tyres Made Tyres are designed and built on a highly advanced principle BALANCED CONSTRUC TION whereby tread, ...

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... Th e new lightships which are now making their appearance around our coasts incorporate many technical improvements and better accommodation for the crews than the pre-war vessels which they are re placing. The latest of these vessels to take station, the' Kentish Knock has just been moored off the Kent coast. Half of the sixteen Trinity House vessels lost during the war have already been ...

... 1. CANADAIR SHOWS THE WAY: Between £4,000,000 and £5,000,000 is being spent by B.O.A.C. on the fleet of twenty-two Canadair air liners which are being made in the Canadair factory outside Montreal. About one-fifth of the equipment for the machines, including the Rolls-Royce engines, is being supplied from Britain. The arrival or the hrst ot the machines at London Airport was made some thing of ...

... JT^r. Ernest Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, told the City Assembly last week that he hoped to reopen the question of the city's inclusion in a new West German State, and meanwhile the currency changes, he declared, were a recognition on the part of the Western Allies that we here in Berlin are a part of the West and will be treated and protected as such. Dr. Reuter's confidence was matched by ...

... QUEEN MARY AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL AT THE SAVOY THEATRE Alec Guinness is received by Her Majesty during an interval of the performance. In the background are the Princess Royal, talking to Sophie Stewart, and Mr. Stanley French, who presents the play. Queen Mary seldom misses a play of importance and is become the foremost patron of the London theatre. Last week she saw J. Lee-Thompson and ...