... Here conies the old problem back again what to buy and whom for. In this issue you'll find help from personalities of both sexes and all ages. They were asked to say what presents they'd like to have for themselves especially the little expendable things that nobody ever seems to give. What they chose is illustrated (with prices and stockists) in the cover feature Twenty Candles To Christmas, ...

... I FOR YOUR DIARY I MAY 13 Show and Sale of Guernsey Cattle, at Yeovil. 14 A.G.M. of the Anglers' Co-operative Association. 14 Show and Sale of Shorthorns, at Crewe. 14-16 Royal Windsor Horse Show. 15-16 Golf: Walker Cup Match v. U.S.A. j 16 Bishop's Waltham and District Show, at Bishop's Waltham. 16 Wharfedale Show, at Otley. 16 Surrey Show, at Reigate Hill. 18 Agricultural Shows: Basingstoke, ...

... mi CONTENTS j| Cover Design by Meredith i s s Articles Private Detectives are Thriving S by Ferdinand Tuohy Illustrations by G. McKerrow 13 and 70 S Lid Off The Courts by Peter Deighton 14-15 and 58 I Rebuilt A Cottage S by E. M. FitzPutrick 16 and 78 S Overcoming The Criminal by M. Lovett-Turner 20 and 62 James Baines And Bully Forbes S Written by Warren Armstrong J> Illustrated s by Jack ...

... FOR YOUR DIARY I OCTOBER 14 Show and Sale of Herefords, at Leicester. 14 N. P. B. A. Show and Sale of Wessex Saddlebacks, at Reading. 14 Shows and Sales of Scottish Shorthorns, at Perth, and at Reading. 14 Show and Sale of Lincoln Red Heifers, at Louth. 2 14 Show and Sale of Romney Marsh Sheep, at Maidstone. 14 Flat Racing: The Cesarewitch, at Newmarket. 14-15 Show and Sale of Swaledale Rams, ...

... 0 W 4 ;n g ft fg M 3/ S 3 vflV Articles iffT* Dreaming Of A White Christmas ft by Guy Livingston 13 and 76 Icy Peaks Of Science 7x5 by Ferdinand Tuohy 14-15 and 66 Salt Water Christmas by C. Fox Smith =Xr Illustrations by J Matthew 16 and 88 Y The Circus Comes To Clown K? by Richard Parsons 20 and 71 nf: The Man Who Made Christmas by Arnold Wareing JK Illustrations by Jack Matthew 21-24 and ...

... FOR YOUR DIARY j MAY 29-June I Bath and West and Southern Counties Show, Swindon. 5 30 First Test Match v. West Indies, Birmingham. JUNE 4 Epsom Summer (Derby) Race Meeting opens. 5 Stirling Show. 5-6 Cheshire Show, Chester. 5-6 Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge. 5-6 Suffolk Show, Ipswich. 5-22 Royal Tournament, Olympia, London. 6 Cothi Bridge Show, Carmarthenshire. 7 Kintyre Show, Campbelltown. ...

... PRICE 2/-. PUBLISHED FORTNIGHTLY Subscriptions, inclusive of postage 12 months and Christmas Number, Great Britain and Eire, £3 10s. Canada, £2 19s. 6d.; U.S.A., $9.50 Elsewhere Abroad, £3 6s. 6d.; Six months and Christmas Number, £1 17s. 6d., £1 12s., $5.00 and £1 15s. 6d.; Six months without Christmas Number, £1 13s.; £1 7s. 9d., $4.50 and £1 lis. FOR YOUR DIARY NOVEMBER 12 Ayrshire Cattle ...

... I FOR YOUR DIARY Miu:-'ry Advisory Event. On Dei ruber 5 at the Queen's Hall, citenham, there will be a F: t Conference. Got] Fixtures for 1957 include the following prin cipal tes the English Amatei:- Championship will be at R. Liverpool from April to May 4 the Amatei Championship at R. St. rorge's from May 27 to Jun the Ladies' British Open ateur Championship at G neagles from June 2 -27 the ...

... How precious are you? Christmas often provides a chance to find out, especially if you find yourself unwrapping a piece of jewellery and perhaps if you don't. Either way the cover feature should have something for you, as a source of ideas if not as a reference book on values. It's called The Price Of Being Precious and it begins on page 669. David Olins did the photography. Tomorrow night an ...

... As winter moves in, The Tatler takes up this week the cause of arcades. This country, if any, is surely the one where we need shelter when shopping, as Diana Rowntree (who is an architect) argues on page 460. She imagines an Arcadia in our time, made possible by new building advances. The cover feature, beginning on page 461, portrays The West End's existing Arcadians in photo graphs by Ida ...

... THE GORGEOUS UNIFORM is worn by a postillion of a state road landau, in the background is part of the royal mews at Buckingham P lace. More pictures of this f: ci nati ng stab I ing-and-t raining c ntre appear on pages 522-3. A SO IN THIS ISSUE: Eminent c togenarians on the Riviera p :tures of two well-known per- s nal ities (page 19). Priscilla v ites on page 518, Caryl ahms on page 516 ...

... 'over: See page (535. Photo graph by The Times 7EXT week Roses, roses all he way, a symposium of the English bloom and how it gets iround. Lynn Chadivick, he sculptor, photographed in lis new home by Gerti Deutsch. St. John Donn- Byrne reports from Paris. The Paddock Wood Finishing School in pictures Postage: Inland, 4d. Canada, 1 pi. foreign, 4-Jd. Registered as a lews paper for transmission ...