... f -) f j Why cars are hard to please YOUR car makes many demands on its fuel all different, all hard to satisfy. Starting, warming up, idling, accelerating, cruising at all these times your engine gives its petrol a different, difficult problem. Only if all these demands are fully met will your car behave properly. Only if the petrol does everything the engine asks of it, every moment of a ...

... yC,y^ You must meet the new 75's! The sheerest nylons that have happened yet and the strongest sheers so far. 75 stitches of gossamer nylon to every If inches. Giving a fabric of powder- smoothness, wonderfully supple, snag-resistant and cool-feeling. Pick them out by the big '75' on the pack. All with the impeccable fit and cling that is the hallmark of a true fully fashioned stocking. ...

... A Chelsea drawing-room Lady Gloria Flower her son Philip and their Corgi in Betty Swaebe Iady Gloria is the wife of Mr. Roland Flower, whom jshe married in 1952. With her is her son Philip, who will be two in March. Lady Gloria is a daughter of the Earl of Lisburne, and in looks takes after her mother, the late Lady Lisburne. Mr. and Lady Gloria Flower have a rare and fine collection of ...

... The art of after-dinner speaking becomes a most lloyal entertainment MR.L. A.NICKOLLS, author of Royal Cavalcade and The Queen's World roar, writes here of H.R.IL Prince Philip's increasing reputation as an after-dinner speaker. Not only does the Prince suit his wit to the occasion, hut he e.rpresses his opinions with acute intel ligence and great sincerity THE art of the after-dinner ...

... Peer, parliamentarian and farmer Agricultural wisdom at the State's service rpHE appointment of Earl St. Aldwyn as Joint Parliamentary X Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries was a particularly fortunate choice, for he farms extensively at his family home, Williamstrip JJark, near Cirencester, and is chairman of many agricultural committees. lie married the former Miss Diana ...

... AT THE WINTER SPORTS SWITZERLAND --The first words I heard here, as in Austria, were We need snow badly. I certainly brought it with me, for it began to snow on my arrival in Gstaad and continued without stopping until the morning I left, three days later: a splendid fall which, with reasonable luck, should ensure several weeks of perfect ski-ing in this small, fashionable resort in the ...

... I I ANSDOWNE House, which I was for over half a century the centre of London's social and political life, was the scene of a gay ball attended by nearly three hundred members of the Lans- downe Club and their friends Mr. 0. B. Harris and Miss Gillian Wace took time off from dancing to chat to other members of their party during the evening Mr. Alichael Walker and Miss Jane Knight. There was a ...

... J. J. R. TRETHOWAN, who is one of the best known of Rugby correspondents and an expert on Old Boys' Rugby, writes on different aspects of the game and of the people ivho play it. An excellent raconteur, he recalls many of the season's highlights EARLY observations of the new Rugby Laws, which came into force at the beginning of this season, showed quite forcibly that players preferred to learn ...

... GILLIAN LUTYENS (left), a great-niece of Sir Edwin Lutyens, the architect, has been rapidly making a name for herself on tele vision. She is under contract to the B.B.C. for two years, with a minimum of six appearances a year MARY PARKER (right) is one of the many young Australian artistes who have made a success in this country in recent years. She first ap peared with Harry Green in Fifty ...

... MME. MIGUEL CARCANO, daughter-in-law of a former Argentine Ambassador to Great Britain, photographed in her lovely apart ment in the Avenue Foch. Mme. Carcano, who is one of the most elegant women in Paris, has many friends in England, her husband being a brother of Vis countess Ednam and also of the Hon. Mrs. John Jacob Astor F. J, Goodman THE PRINCESS ELISABETH OF LIECHTENSTEIN, only ...

... rpHE majority of the Members of _L the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, who showed their collections just before the French shows started, offered us pleasing and unexceptional clothes that, however erroneously, we felt we had seen before. A little change, however, was there, and colour strong, lovely colour-- was everywhere! Materials, both British and French, silks, wools ...

... An enchanting ball gown from Victor Stiebel. The asymmetrical bodice is of pale blue grosgrain, the skirt white organza, worked with sprays of blue mimosa Ronald Paterson's dramatically beautiful evening coat Premier in pink gold ottoman wool studded with pink jewels has long flowing lines and enormous unforced chic. Marlene is an evening dress of blond jersey designed by him to wear under ...