The Sunday Times Magazine 3 October 1976.

Cover illustration by Hargrave Hands

LIFESPAN The Art of Body Maintenance Part 1- The start of an eight-week series on preventive medicine for the Family of the Seventies. Week One - childbirth, pregnancy and child development. Page 21 

Painting - the man who influenced Lowry. Page 29 

Gambling - the new face of the betting shop. Page 29 

Cooking - the best cook in Britain - announcing the start of a new competition. Page 30 

Publishing - the bonanza in Bible sales. Page 32 

Archaeology - the modern art of treasure hunting. Page 34

And a Commercial was Created: how Brigitte Bardot came to plug men's perfume on television - and how much it cost to get her, by Meriel McCooey. Page 42 

Poster Power: the propaganda poster, and its use as a weapon of war, by Anthony Rhodes. Page 46 

Home on the Warlords: in our second extract from his memoirs The Way the Wind Blows, Lord Holme looks back on his experiences in the 1930s as Britain slipped towards war. Page 54 

Focus on Pinewood: what do you know about Pinewood, the film studio that opened 40 years ago this week? page 74

Brotherhood of Ruralists: a new group of artists, dedicated to the preservation of the spirit of the countryside, are visited by Brian Moynahan; photographs by Kenneth Griffiths. Page 78 

Home Town: Bevis Hillier on his boyhood in one of the less lovely parts of Surrey. Page 94 

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