... PRINCE CHARLES AT NINETEEN WEEKS The fair-haired, blue-eyed son of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, seen at Buckingham Palace, where he gave a camera interview. Prince Charles is seen in the other pictures on this page playing with his favourite toy, a rabbit with white and brown ears and green dungarees PRINCE CHARLES GREETS THE PRESS His Royal Highness sits up and plays with his ...

... THE U.S.S. ROANOKE IS JOCKEYED UP THE DELAWARE EN ROUTE TO THE PHILADELPHIA NAVAL YARD The Roanoke, latest light cruiser in the United States Navy, was laid down in May 1945 at the New York Naval Yard. She has a displacement of 14,700 tons, carries twelve 6-in. guns in six turrets, suitable for high- or low-angle fire, and is designed primarily to provide cover for air- craft-carriers. ...

... The snake-charmer likes his public to think that his power of charming cobras, pythons and other reptiles is an occult gift, but there is no evidence to support his claim, and there is a great deal of evidence that the business of snake-charming, often handed down from father to son, is a trick, pure and simple, based on an intimate knowledge of the ways of reptiles. In India, the little ...

... I n addition to winning the Montana Cup, valued at £50, Mr. John Derry, de Havilland's test pilot, has won a prize of £100, presumably payable in francs, and a fortnight's holiday in Cannes, presumably at the establishment of M. Dissat, the hotelier who put up the Montana Cup. The performance of Mr. Derry's jet machine was watched with great interest by French aeronauts, who, with the aid of ...

... The return of the bright lights to London after an absence of ten years provided a free show which Londoners were not slow to appreciate, and the crowds in the West End during the first week-end in April were quite the biggest seen since the end of the war. The week-end before last, which brought tens of thousands of Scots to Wembley for the International football match, resulted in more big ...

... J-- J anover Square was built as a fashionable place of residence in 1718. It is now almost entirely commercial. The famous Hanover Square Rooms stood on the site of No. 4. Beau BrummeU's celebrated inquiry concerning the Prince of Wales Sherry, who's your fat friend? is said to have been made at the Hanover Square Rooms, which later were renamed the Queen's Ancient Concert Rooms and used as ...

... CYom the French greyhound tracks come five of the seven greyhounds in M. Baudy's team, and the other two dogs are Spanish. As for Henri, the monkey, he is a cosmopolitan, and greyhounds of any nationality come alike to him, provided they take kindly to his favourite sport of steeplechasing. M. Baudy's act, which came to London this week, after visiting the Provinces, has been put on at the ...

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... THE GRAND NATIONAL FIELD TAKES THE FIRST FENCE IN GOOD STYLE AT THE START OF ITS JOURNEY OF NEARLY FOUR AND A HALF MILES Watched by a crowd four deep, most of the runners cleared the first obstacle in good style. Roimond, which came in second, can be seen, in the foreground on the right, with Russian Hero, the eventual winner, a length or two behind. Nearly all the runners crossed Becher's the ...

... THE English Sunday-- for what the words mean to the world at large-- is a legacy of the nineteenth century in particular. The comfort induced by heavy feeding lay at its foundations. Without those meals which reached down to the humblest cottage in the land, the gnawing void could but have stirred people from their proper station, in protest. To-day the case against the English Sunday ...

... AIR-LIFTED TO A NEW HOMELAND Jewish mothers and their children tended by a nurse of the Women's International Zionist Organisa tion as they flew from Aden to Israel in one of the craft of Alaskan Airlines, an American company now carrying out air-lift operations on behalf of the American Joint Distribution Com mittee. The Aden Jews, it may be remembered, suffered terribly in the pogrom of 1947 ...