... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- THE generous American Bundles for Britain Society which has supplied hundreds of bombed-out families with new outfits, has been inspired by the thought of our clothes-coupon bound Service brides into sending over nine new wedding dresses, under lease-lend conditions, specially designed for the use of the W.R.N.S. Lady Ward is seen in the top picture inspecting the ...

... . Beating off an air attack on the 44 Seaicitch 44 the anti-aircraft gun crew of an American Liberty ship in action against Nazi bombers. Captain Jarvis RAYMOND MASSEYJ, looking for Chief Mate Joe Rossi HUMPHREY BOGART,/, finds him with Pearl JULIE BISHOP^, whom he has married. Survivors huddled on a raft after their lifeboat has been rammed a little band of members of the crew of the ...

... BEFORE THE FIGHTING CEASI IN SICILY Scenes with the British Army during the Advance Towards the City of Messina THE EIGHTH ARMY ENTERS CATANIA. The Sicilian port, focus of fierce fighting and the chief German defence position on the island, fell on August 5, just four days after the opening of the Allied offensive on this front. This picture was taken in the Via Garibaldi in the town, as the ...

... From the Daily Dozen to Commando Toughness How Physical Fitness is Acquired in the Army of To-day by Scientific Methcds of Training Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE scene was the Stadium at Stockholm. The occasion was the Ling Centenary. The date was July 1939. Every European nation had sent a group of athletes in honour of the greatest physical expert the world has known. The German contin ...

... I Vv e h?ve already published in these pages pictures showing the salvage of the Normandie. r Tk M e R,ven here depict the latest developments in this greatest of all salvage feats. e Normandie renamed the U.S.S. Lafayette, a vessel of 83,423 tons, capsized after a fire I on board some eighteen months ago. Since then, delicate operations to bring her up to an uPnght position have been ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. SHOOTING Memories,--I do not suppose that in the post-war world many young men, keen on shooting, will buy, and carefully fill with details of their shoots, a leather-bound game-register or diary. bucn records oeiongea to a more leisurely age, an age when competition for big bags was rife and keen ...

... THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY REAP A GLORIOUS HARVEST FROM LAND WHICH HAS NEVER PREVIOUSLY BEEN PUT UNDER THE PLOUGH A squad of girls at work gathering up the sheaves on the South Downs within sight of the English Channel Girls the Land Army are now, once again, playing an important part in the reaping of the greatest harvest Britain has ever grown. Land that once was waste and desolate before the war ...

... . After the ceremony DOROTHY THOMPSON, the brilliant journalist and radio commentator and her bridegroom, MAXIM KOPF. After the party, at ivhich many well-known personalities were entertained DOROTHY THOMPSON KOPF relaxes in sports clothes. Wedding reception chat DOROTHY THOMPSON KOPF (right) with MRS. RAYMOND GRAM SWING, wife of the commentator, and MISS SWING (centre). Cutting the wedding ...

... . Members of the Committee who run the Cairo 44 Music for All Club LADY RUSSELL PASHA is the second from left, talking to MRS. E. F. BESLEY. Morning coffee is served in the reading and writing room, which is heated in winter and air-conditioned in summer. The Club premises were originally a cinema, so there is a splendid large music room for concerts and other entertainments. A show is in ...

... MYSELF AT THE PICTURES Too Much Boost By James Agate HEAR now a little story. In the days before the last war when I showed ponies there used to be a large Reposi tory where horses' were bought and sold. Sometimes you got a good animal, and some times you got a bad one. After a time I discovered that the worst animals were always those which in the catalogue bore the most glowing descriptions. ...

... Out of Doors in Town and Country Snapshots from Here and There Viscountess Carlow and Her Two Sons Lady Carlow and her two sons, George and Lionel, were holiday making at Rock, in Cornwall, when this snapshot was taken. Lady Carlow (the former Peggy Cambie) is the wife of the Earl of Portarlington s son and heir A. Rahm Gymkhana Competitor The Hon. Lady Drummond com peted in the Open Utility ...

... 44 It 's Time to Dance Jack Buchanan Calls the Tune with Elsie Randolph and Fred Emney at the Winter Garden Theatre The jewels of Conchita D' Alvarez (Marjorie Brooks are the envy of the international underworld. Scotland Yard, represented by Lord D'Arcy (Fred Emney), holds a watching brief Lord D'Arcy seeks the support of his old friend Willmott Brown Jack Buchanan). He persuades him to ...