... THERE are few pleasanter moments in this job than to be strolling up the Champs-Elysées on a lovely September morn and at the same time to be earning one's pittance. Or about to do so, for I was headed for an offshoot of the Ministry of the Interior near the Arc de Triomphe, where I presently found what I was looking for, though hardly in the setting to be expected. The International Criminal ...

... STUDYING COSMIC RAYS BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH Deep in this worked-out cavern of the Cayagu Rock Salt Company's mine near Ithaca, New York, Mr. Lowell M. Bollinger, a research assistant in nuclear studies at Cornell University, is seen checking a cylinder of forty-eight Geiger counters and other cosmic-ray recording apparatus. He is 2,250 ft. below ground, and the purpose of his work is ...

... Time and time again between the wars it seemed that the Australian grain race was doomed. Since the Second World War, when the Erikson grain fleet was scattered, the Pamir becoming a prize in New Zealand hands and the Lawhill a South African prize, the annual race to England has been even less of a contest, but the wind jammers have not departed for ever from the headlines, and, indeed, last ...

... 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 ...

... MAKING DIRECT CONTACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM AND THE RIVER RHINE The largest sluice in Europe seen under construction at Tiel. This project constitutes a further development in Holland's engineering masterpiece, the Rhine Canal, designed so that goods from overseas destined for Rhine ports can pass from the North Sea to Amsterdam and thence without transhipment through the Rhine Canal ...

... I A Streetcar Named Desire has been running for three years I on Broadway, where Jessica Tandy scored a great per- I sonal success in the leading role of Blanche Du Bois, played here I by Vivien Leigh. The story is sordid and violent in the extreme. H Blanche Du Bois married when she was very young a youth I whom she soon discovered to be a degenerate. She had been I deeply in love with him ...

... ONCE again the Autumn Term of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art has started, and this week with more students than ever-- no fewer than 289, of whom twenty-six come from the United States. As a digression, it seems as though the R.A.D.A. is destined to become more and more of a dollar-earner. Not only are American Government scholarships granted to would-be actors and actresses, but Dolores ...

... 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 ...