13 AUGUST 1948, page 5

Swimming Certificates Were To Be Presented After The...

during the usual long-drawn-out contest between the speakers on the dais and the infants in arms at the back of the village schoolroom I examined the tastefully coloured cards......

Among The Youth Of The Socialist Britain In Which It

is at present our lot to live there seems to be a tendency for every man to expect England to do her duty by him rather than the other way round ; at any rate none of the three......

* * * * The Pleasantly Sardonic Gunner Officer Finished

his explanation, handed the microphone back into the van and made a signal with his hand. The 25-pounder just below us fired six rounds. They all hit the board hanging from the......

The Nearest I Ever Got To Taking Part In International

archery (a tournament is now in progress at Dulwich College) was persuading the War Office to buy some bows and arrows to shoot Germans with. The idea wasn't quite as silly as......

Berlin In Perspective

L OOKING for holes in the wall of secrecy round the Moscow talks is one of the less profitable ways of filling in time before the results are officially announced. There is no......

"agents, Promoters, Casting Managers (sic), Producers,...

and theatre personalities, financiers, publicists, and everybody connected with the show business and the film, radio and stage world will be found in this book," Messrs.......

A Spectator 's Notebook

I N bad visibility you might have taken the eleven figures in white for a cricket team whose captain had set—for they were not widely dispersed—an offensive field ; but the......

My Unit In Kent Was Based On The Densely Wooded

spur between Chilham and Charing, and it soon became apparent to us that when the Germans came we should be very much better off if we had, in addition to our normal weapons,......