... Speaking as an Aries man by CLAUD COCKBURN I RECALL the former editor of a Sunday newspaper telling me that for him the most alarming day of World War Two was that on which the wife of one of the tiptop figures at the War Office rang him up to ask if it were possible for an early proof of the page with the astrology column in it to be rushed down to her husband's place in the country before ...

... 1 MOST DEMANDING LODGER by Eric W almsley NO HOME BEING A HOME WITHOUT a pussy cat, young couples planning to get married soon for income-tax purposes would do well to appreciate what they are letting themselves in for. Kittens, for one thing, grow up; and if the new little friend is to be named fiddles or Bookins or Kittywee, someone is going to look pretty silly one day if the former becomes ...

... 3: OLD CUSTOMS Schweppshire never forgets its tradition of traditions, particularly at the time of year when we broadcast a welcome to tourists (see our Inheriting the Heritage, Society of Sudan Travel Agents, distrbtd.). At the same time Schweppshire is modern in spirit and progressive in techniques. Everybody will admire our really quite tall new sky scraper beside the river-- and how ...

... It is 25 years since Osbert Lancaster first started producing pocket cartoons for the Daily Express. Since 1939, with a short pause during the war (he was attached to our Embassy in Athens in 1944 for two years) Mr. Lancaster has walked into the black glass and glitter Express building every afternoon round about 3.30. He sits in the middle of a sea of desks awash with typewriters, telephones, ...

... by Fred Player I HAD not realised the complications arising from the use of modern farm machinery until I heard of Ken's experience with the anhydrous ammonia injector. You know what Ken is like! Initiative is his middle name. There he was in the middle of this ley pumping the stuff in, when he had one of his more progressive thoughts. There's the fence at the bottom of my garden, he thought ...