... Sim Pdrtrmfe im Print Beim* the lucubrations of your tnoft obedient fcribe, Mr. Gordon Beckles PAMS Early one glorious morning, having to see a friend off on the first London plane, I went to the air terminus at the Invalides, and then walked on along the Seine towards the Tour Eiffel. I have never walked this way before. Groups of workers were coming out from the Metro stations, crossing the ...

... MAJOR-GEN. E. O. HERBERT, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O. Director of the Territorial Army and Cadets, chatting with Col. Elliott from Dorset in the courtyard of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. The occasion was a joint week-end conference held by the War Office and Army Cadet Force, when the C.I.G.S., Field Marshal Sir William Slim and others addressed 160 senior cadet officers from every county in ...

... Pnsci£&c/ in. S Colette Holds Court THE nicest party given recently was in honour of Mme. Colette, whose world famous books are being published by Flammarion in a new library edition. The great writer rarely leaves her couch in the charming flat overlooking the gardens of the Palais Royal, where she lives with her husband, Maurice Goudeket, the dramatist, and Pauline, who has been her devoted ...

... They tell me there's a rabbit in the house. You know the sort of thing a man likes long ears, plenty of soft, warm fur. Doesn't seem to be hereabouts. Overleaf, maybe Very well, then, let 's see, shall we. PRINCE CHARLES OF EDINBURGH C C^lie (^Jrmce and ilie cdvabLil Ah Here it is, and what could be finer, I ask you Place the animal carefully in my hands, please, I want to have a word in its ...

... At the Curragh were Lady Ursula Vernon, daughter of the Duke of Westminster, her husband, Major Stephen Vernon and Col. John Lawson Mrs. George Garrett, wife of the U.S. Mini ;er, Lady Rugby, wife of the retiring U.K. representc ve, and Viscountess Adare Miss Eileen Newsam, who is engaged to the Earl of Mount Charles with Capt. and Mrs. J. McCarthy of Co. Westmeath Mr. Harry Keogh, the owner, ...

... Lord Morton of Henryton, M.C., a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and an honorary member of the Club addresses the company of 400 which gathered at the Savoy Mr. Donovan Parsons Sir Stanley Aubrey, who entered Lloyd's in 1901, and Mr. Ivan Ayscough, the Club's president Mr. E A. Barrington and Mr. G. Ewart Thomson, club captain t are amused at one of the after-dinner speeches Mr. C. B. Gilroy, the ...

... Sfes WASHES BOTH At a turn of the dial, Thor does glassware and silverware and a whole wash of 16 lbs. in under dries them\ an hour Clothes stay in the Thor uses coupon-free washing machine your hands don I touch powder and less hot water than H'(itcr. other washers requires no washing by super-agitator swirls plumbing and, being vibration- hot suds through even the less, no bolting down. ...

... . ., The distinction that comes ol traditionally thorough crafts manship, superior comfort and appearance and, above alt, from pride of ownership. The Six Eighty: 600 (/>/s purchase tax, £167. 8. 4.) 77w Four Fifty: £550 (/>/hs purchase tax, £153. 10. 7.) (JJ0L3ELEY COWLEY. OXFORD. |tl Oj^rsras business: Nuffield Exports Ltd., Oxford, and 41, Piccadilly, London, H i. ...

... ma m imw i mo* THE PRINCESS NEVER MISSED A DANCE Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh dancing with Major David Butters during the ball held at the Dorchester to aid the funds of the National Playing Fields Association. Nearly 1,000 guests were present at the ball IAS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH RECEIVED THE GUESTS AT THE DORCHESTER BALL ...

... The Tirpitz which never fought a naval battle and fooled the British Navy in only one respect the matter of her size was pursued relentlessly from the day when she was commissioned in 1940 to the day in 1944, when, half a wreck already, she sank ignominiously in Tromso Fjord, under a vast weight of British bombs. She was attacked by midget submarines manned by British naval crews she was ...

... \Tewfoundland was discovered by John Cabot in 1497, and before long, Portu guese, Spanish and French fished around its grim coasts. In the seventeenth century English colonists established themselves there, and exclusive British sovereignty was ceded in 1713. There has always been a party in Newfoundland eager for union with Canada, but, on the other hand, the sturdy independents have remained ...

... Australia's interest in racing is proverbial, so much so, indeed, that in the early 30's, when the sport was banned in New South Wales on Mondays, the local wits declared that it was to ensure that Sydney business men attended the office on at least one day a week. The quality of Australia's racehorses is world- known, and it has, of course, much to do with the excellence of her grazing land, ...