... I M mam Corduroy mates a little beauty of a terel to be a versatile companion for a smart suit or a casual coat. There's harmony fur your new clothes in a choice of bottle green navy, wine, black beige brown, or grey. The price from tbe Inexpensive Hat department is refreshingly low 19/1 ...

... b y Pri/tqfe of Scotland U||^ By Appointment. Manufacturers or knitted Karments to Her Majesty The Queen. HAWICK, SCOTLAND ROBERT PRINGLE AND SON LTI ...

... Ir'W Designed and Manufactured by J. H. LINDSAY Co. (LINDSAY MAID) Ltd. 19 JOHN STREET, GLASGOW, CI Infants' and childrc garments of high quality and artist From all high -el as children's wear shop and departments. ...

... J^ondon is not lightly regarding the opportunities presented by the blitz for redevelopment. There will be no repetition of what happened in the London of the seventeenth century which rejected the bold scheming of Wren, forcing the great architect to dovetail his plans with those of the commercial interests. The City of London is, according to the report of the Town Planning Committee, hoping ...

... A MONG the countless commodities affected by the devaluation of the pound, oil and petrol are among the most important. For over 40 per cent, of the oil or petrol supplied in this country comes from the United States or oil companies controlled by American interests. At the moment it is considered unlikely that any changes in price will be announced before Christmas. But that is not far away. ...

... , , 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 ...