... SONS of British-bred Shorthorns and Herefords carried off the supreme and many other honours at Palermo, the Argentine's great annual cattle show. The son, too, of a Scottish-bred Aberdeen- k Angus was judged junior champion and supreme reserve. At the sale 5 after the show the bulls changed hands at very high prices, the Short horn at only just below last year's record. It was, however, a ...

... SB A group of four cottages. These stone-built cottages were >9 ravaged by fire in 1951 and have been extensively improved and added to since. The height has been raised and the additional construction in brick has been added to the backs of the cottages. The old thatched roof has been replaced with tiles and the interiors have been re-designed, agsj Owing to the long time it took for ...

... Where Fly fishers Forgather J c> Some Notes On The Fly fishers' Club By C. F. Walker THE idea of establishing a social club for fly fishermen was first mooted about a hundred years ago, but it was not until 1884 that the project assumed concrete shape. Largely on the initiative of Mr. R. B. Marston, editor of The Fishing Gazette (and father of the present editor), a meeting was called in ...

... OF the sixth account that they have issued of progress on their estate in Hampshire where game research is undertaken, I.C.I. Game Services say we hope we shall never again have to compile such a gloomy one-- gloomy from the shooting man's point of view. The summer of 1954 was indeed a killing one. England has had only six wetter summers since 1870, and only two colder ones since 1900. ...

... --JEAN CLELAND WITH holidays by the sea fast approach ing, the day of reckoning is upon us. Throughout the past year, we have been kidding ourselves-- as we fall for new potatoes and the odd éclair-- that these trifles won't make any appreciable difference. Why worry about a few pounds here and there? It is only when we stand in front of a long mirror in a close-fitting swimsuit that we see ...

... I Hfiaiuiiri |SfJL)f 1 E: IE I ffSSTvmT^g Bk >11 I K/^iife'F 'Ai ,Si tsnc Coop COL. RAYMOND WARREN, O.B.E., M.C., D.L., T.D., and Mrs. Warren, are the owners of one of the most beautiful gardens in Sussex, that of their home The Hyde, near Handcross. Their son and daughter, Mr. Michael and Miss Mary Warren, are seen on our cover beside its lily pond. Col. Warren, who commanded the 4th Bn. ...

... , Perthshire, seat ofthe Dukeof Atholl, were Mr. Shane Summers, Miss Tessa Hopkinson and Mr. Martin Summers. They were guests at the dance given there by the Scottish Horse, a unit of irregulars formed during the Boer War, and the event was highly successful, the seven-hundred-year-old castle forming an ideal setting Miss Sally Probart Jones dancing a waltz with Mr. Richard Benthall during the ...

... I EADING British show I-- jumpers took part in the successful Brighton Horse Show. Below, Miss Dawn Palethorpe with Holywell Surprise, who competed in the Trial Stakes, and (right) Miss D. Russell riding her entry Private Enterprise in the Brighton Nursery Stakes ...

... MR. JAMES STEWART enjoys making Westerns. He told me so. When I asked him whether he did not think audiences by now might be a little tired of them, he registered pained astonishment very fetchingly and said Gosh, no! Why, there are plenty of people who don't reckon they 've seen a movie if they haven't seen a horse! These people should be delighted with The Man From Laramie. I was delighted ...

... BUT, to their surprise. Monsieur le Sous-Préjet mâchait des violettes et faisait des vers! which goes to show, if we may believe Alphonse Daudet's enchanting story, what the call of Nature does to mankind. Perhaps it dates one to quote the author of Les Lettres de mon Moulin but being in a sous-préfetish mood the quotation blows across my memory. Monsieur le Sous-Prefet was on his way to ...

... Michael Somes and Svetlana Kassinova, who both had tumblers dedicated to them Margot Fonteyn and Beryl Grey were two more of the ballerinas at this good party AT his flat in Bryanston Square, Lord Audley, who makes noted glassware, gave a party to introduce tumblers depicting members of Sadler's Wells Ballet. Above Mrs. Laurence Holbech, Col. Laur ence Holbech, Ina, Lady George Cholmondeley, ...

... Jean Cleland DURING the lazy summer days when most of us at some time or another have been relaxing for a spell in the country or at the seaside, the cosmeticians and beauty firms have been active as ever launching new products to enhance our looks and please our feminine fancy. As usual I have waited until sufficient items have accumulated for an entire page in which you may see at a glance ...