... GETTING BRITAIN'S WEATHER NEWS A cloud-formation photo graphed by meteorological ob servers of the R.A.F., as part of/ the daily routine of forecasting Britain's weather. It is all part of the work of the Central Forecasting Office at Dunstable, which has set up a forecasting research station which is working to give an accurate weather forecast for as much as five days ahead. For many years ...

... YY/estminster Roman Catholic Cathedral stands on the site of Tothill Fields Prison. The site was bought by Cardinal Manning in 1883, and soon after his election Herbert Vaughan, third Archbishop of Westminster, began the building. The architect was John Francis Bentley, who designed the great shrine in the Early Christian Byzantine style. The first stone was laid in 1895, but neither the ...

... IVAost trades have their time-honoured ceremonies to mark the emergence of the apprentice as a fully-fledged craftsman. In the printing trade it is known as banging-out, and involves the liberal smearing of the apprentice with ink and French chalk. In the brewing trade initiation is hardly less messy, and it is quite as spectacular, the young cooper being rolled round the work shop in a cask ...

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... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. This Horrible Century. --Honour to whom honour is due. I think I am right in attributing to Dr. Bramuglia the coining of this description of the twentieth century, which (he said a few months back) had still fifty years to run. Mr. Churchill, in his remarkable address to Boston leaders and scientists, more or less adopted the phrase, and in a speech larded with ...

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... , who recently celebrated her fiftieth anniversary as a hoteliere in the Place Vendome, still receives her innumerable friends in her sunlit flat above the most celebrated hotel in Paris. It was she and her late husband who gave the word Ritz to the world. Madame Caesar has been described variously as a pioneer, a magician and a counsellor, and manages to sustain all these titles with an ...

... Col. Napoleon Brincknian D.S.O.. son of the late Sir Theodore Brinckman. with his wife in the paddock promenade at Auteuil for the last chase of the season Mnie Paul Lafarge on the steps of the Club stand at St. Cloud, with Mrs. Aubrey Raphael of Ascot. Mme I.afarge is the owner of Mildiou which run in the Prix du Manoir At St. Cloud M. Jean Jourdain's Postman is led from the paddock for the ...

... GREAT BRINGTON WAS THE SETTING FOR THE PYTCHEEY POINT-TO-POINT Midland Riders to Hounds Enjoy an Exhilarating Afternoon Miss Peggy Wright, who wo t the Adjacent Hunt Ladies Race, with Miss Audrey Saunders Mrs. If. Allsop talking ta the huntsman, Stanley Barker, in between two of the five races Mr. L. Shea shy's Peg's Playtime, Miss Peggy Wright up, on the way to the start Miss M. V. Stewart on ...

... HER SOCIAL JOURNAL v--- Court IRews: The remarkable public enthusiasm which marked every stage of the two-day tour of Lancashire by Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh surprised even those who made the arrangements for it. The immense success of this, their first provincial tour together, is the best of auguries for the increasing number of such excursions which the young Royal couple ...

... It. C. Robertson-Glasgrow (Scoreboard) PICTURESQUE nomenclature, my ancient history tutor used to say, as, wiping a tear from his eye, he lowered my weekly essay into his waste-basket, is a characteristic, so to speak, of the United States of America. Oh, yes, decidedly so, Mr. Robertson. And then, propping a lethal cigarette into an invention of his own which had started as a pipe and ...

... TIIEY WERE MARRIED The Tatler's Review Ralli Barlow Favtr The wedding took place at the Presbyterian Church, George Street Portman Square, W.i, between Mr. Godfrey Victor Ralli, elder son of Sir Strati and Lady Ralli of Kensington Palace Gardens, London W.S, and Miss Jean Barlow elder daughter of the late Mr. Keith Barlow and of Mrs. Barlow, of Vicarage Gate, W.8. Miss Joanna Campbell was ...