... After the Coronation The Pope Grants Audiences to Dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church and Prays Before the Tomb of St. Peter THE POPE GRANTS A SPECIAL AUDIENCE TO ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS: In the small Throne Room in the Vatican, Pope John XXIII blesses a group of kneeling bishops. They had come to Rome from many different countries to be present at the Coronation several days previously. ...

... Coventry'' Cathedral Takes Shape A. i ncw Coventry Cathedral will not be crvnt f mp cd ur|'il 1962, services are to be held in the bv thp nl lc beginning of next year. It will be blessed public c op Coventry on December 31, and the first 86 vintt 1VICe V' tabc place at midnight. The crypt is and will he!1?' cas a wich ranging from 30 ft. to 60 ft., held in II a°iit 500 people. At present, ...

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... When Dr Radhakrishnan, the President of India, arrived in London, history was made and a new term coined in the diplomatic vocabulary. The President is the first Head of a Republican State in the Commonwealth to visit Britain at the invitation of the Queen and it has been decided that such visits between Commonwealth Heads of State and the Monarch shall be known as Common wealth Visits. This ...

... 3 On the cold damp day of Brentwood's game on their home ground in Essex against Chigwell, the visitors won the toss and put Brentwood in. Scoring was slow against the opening attack, particularly against J. E. C. Dixon, Chigwell's fast-medium inswing bowler. A second-wicket partnership between M. J. Jones, highest scorer with 33, and I. J. K. Lintner took the score to 63. After reaching a ...

... ADDERS IN MY GARDEN BRIAN VESEY-FITZGERALD I expect to see adders in the garden every year; and am never disappointed. That there are adders in the garden always surprises people, because it is generally believed that the adder is not common-- nothing like so common as the grass snake-- and is to be found only in the wildest situations. In fact, the adder is the commonest snake in the British ...

... In March this year, Joan Littlewood returned in triumph to the theatre now identified with her, the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, and produced a striking coup de theatre. It is a re-creation of the First World War in terms of its songs. A cast dressed up as pierrots perform a montage of sketches the War Game and recapture that tragic dichotomy between the bright romantic patriotism of the ...

... : ALEXANDER ROSS This Spring, Mr Alexander Ross became Chair man of the £200 million United Dominions T rust. He is one of the few New Zealanders to have reached a position of importance in British banking. Born 56 years ago in North Island, New Zealand, he was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School and at Auckland University College. His impressive career in banking began with the National ...

... Extracts from the Annual Review delivered by Mr. Roy Thomson, Chairman of The Thomson Organisation Limited THE ORGANISATION Both the present and the long-term strength of The Thomson Organisation Limited derive from its pattern of diversification. We can take considerable satisfaction in the progress we have made in broadening the base of our operations and in establishing a pattern of vig ...

... The first radio pictures, some of which are on these pages, to reach London after the news of the revolt in Algeria indicated the great gravity of the situation facing President de Gaulle. In Paris and elsewhere in Metro politan France a number of bomb explosions in railway stations and other public buildings warned the authorities that the rebellious military chiefs had their sympathisers ...

... I JOHN CONNELL The discussion was animated in the extreme. Its subject-- a vexed one in Southern Rhodesia-- was land apportionment. We were lunching at an agreeable sports club in an African township in Bulawayo. I (it is perhaps relevant to explain) was one of a group of visiting firemen. On my right was the Mayoress of Bulawayo; on my left the wife of an African Anglican clergyman. The ...

... FRANCE'S SEASON A review of 1960-61 Rugby Football By VIVIAN JENKINS One word-- France-- dominates the 1960-61 Rugby season, just as it had its immediate pre decessors. In 1958-59 the erstwhile babes of the tournament won the championship out right for the first time, after forty-nine years of effort. Last season they shared the title with England, and now they have won it outright again. ...