... , , 1 FAMOUS IN FIVE CONTINENTS rCorU^ Typically English is the description which almost inevitably is applied to the Riley, a car which cannot be closely compared with products of any other country. It is a car the ancestry of which can be traced back over a long period of years, and which in new post-war form has earned ever increasing popularity The New Riley, in fact, may be said to be at ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Bombs and Formulæ.-- Lam glad that Russia has the atom bomb. I think it best that the load of human misery should be evenly distributed, and the protagonists of civilisation, if they must fear each other, should be equally afraid. If the intelligence services of the Western Powers are right, Russia has got the secret rather sooner than ex pected, and has let off a ...

... The year 1949 is one of importance in the history of Mount Kenya. On Decem ber 3 it will be exactly a century since the missionary Krapf reported that he had seen the great mountain and told an unbelieving world that there was snow on the Equator. Fifty years later the summit of Mount Kenya was reached for the first time by Sir Halford Mackinder, and this year consequently marks the jubilee of ...

... MECCA Goes Modern By Martin Thornhill THREE British firms are taking electricity to the Holy City of Mecca, an undertaking which sets up yet another milestone on the well-trod trails to the most pilgrimaged place in the world. With more shipping available than at any time since 1939, the last Had] brought 350,000 Mohammedans to the sacred places of Islam-- the largest Mos lem pilgrimage since ...

... The Life And Loves Of The Seamstresses Of The World's Fashion Centre By Ferdinand Tuohy FOR an assortment of reasons the twelve-day stoppage by the midinettes was the most popular strike Paris has known. the sewmg-girls who, some tor as little as £2 a week, made the world's most glamorous dresses, might understandably have made demands long before this. When they did, they kept matters gay by ...

... By David Gunston THE growing use of modern radar apparatus to enable shipping to avoid collision with icebergs has focused atten tion recently on to these mysterious, majestic miracles of nature. Most people know that the iceberg seen sticking up out of the sea is only part of the whole; in actual fact only about one-eighth of the total ice mass is visible, the remaining portion being ...

... d ffaudhdt, WHEN funds limit us to a very small wardrobe, we are tempted to think that planning is superfluous. On the contrary, the more limited the wardrobe the more essential it is that it should be planned with all the precision of a blueprint. Co-ordination is the secret of good economics and good appearances, and this can only be achieved by apportioning expenditure nicely between the ...

... NO ornament is more effective than a pretty lamp. It has all the decora tive advantages of other china and glass ornaments and something more, since it adds its special function of leaping into increased focal prominence when it is lit. Modern lamps are attractive and, per haps, indispensable to the strictly modern scheme of furnishing, but they lack the variety of design and often the ...

... AS Autumn conies our minds begin to turn towards foods which are both hot and sustaining. With these first chilly evenings there is no more delicious foundation to the evening meal than a really good soup. They need not be the solid meat or cereal soup which make such good winter fare but the lighter cream and vegetable soups. It is here that we can gain much help by enlisting recipes from ...

... MR. V1SHINSKY CALLS FOR A BAN ON ATOMIC WEAPONS-- THE SOVIET MINISTER ADDRESSING THE UNITED NATIONS ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK AFTER MR. TRUMAN HAD RELEASED THE NEWS OF RUSSIA'S POSSESSION OF THE SECRET OF THE ATOMIC BOMB Mr. Vishinsky was milder in tone than usual, although attacking the Marshall Plan, which, he said, had split Europe. Mr. Vishinsky's proposals were drafted before the President ...

... THE 34th MOTOR SHOW AT EARL'S COURT A Special Sphere Four page Section *Fhe thirty-fourth International Motor Exhibition opened at Earl's Court last Wednesday. More than 500 firms are exhibiting, to make it the largest exhibition of its kind ever held. Four nations are showing their latest products of motor-cars, motor-boats, coach- building, caravans, transport services, and accessories and ...

... 17 or the first time in the present century a President of the M.C.C. led his side into the field when the Duke of Edinburgh, who is also President of the National Playing Fields Association, took part in the match at Dean Park, Bournemouth. Brilliant weather marked the occasion, and a comfortably- full ground applauded some really exciting cricket. Both as batsman and bowler the Duke ...