... IT is not, even now, quite certain who fired the first shot, but there is a war on. The new Battle of the Bulge, the bulging hips, is raging, and the Resistance Movement against Longer Skirts is spreading its influence over continents. Women have declared war on Fashion, and at this stage of the contest, nobody will dare to say to whom the final victory may go. It is an intriguing situation, ...

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... Hamburg- British Testing Ground In Germany By Ferdinand Tuohy TO smite a foreign city with the force of an earthquake and then to go there and make it not only the centre of gravity of conqueror's rule but the testing ground and criterion of the defeated people's will and capacity to redeem, regenerate and restore themselves along lines laid down --that is a rich experiment well suited to a ...

... Saucer A New Idea For Table Decoration WE had walked a long way down the valley and climbed eight thousand feet to the chalet at the top of the pass. Inside, it was cool and inviting after the scorching sun and bright glare from the snow, and gracing a table by the window was a further delight. Someone had gathered the little alpine flowers and arranged them as a flat posy in a saucerful of ...

... DESIGNER CRAFTSMAN BEAUTY (On left) In the decoration of fine china the designer finds one of the most challenging mediums. This delightful coffee set, Persian Pony, is in black with splashes of ruby on a white ground. Designed by Victor Skellern, A.R.C.A. (Below) Future furnishing fabrics promise colour, I beauty and variety of texture among other practical advantages. Here is a typical, ...

... s 'T'HIS book lacks nothing in spontaneity s 1 because of the care which obviously has S been lavished on its preparation. The appendices are particularly valuable to students of Victorian art. Apart from an excellent bibliography and index, there s is a collection of letters from Ruskin, a i section dealing with the painter's technique, S by the curator of the Watts Gallery and c other ...

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... Facing Up To F ame Hollywood's New Stars and how Luck came their way in Films By Margaret C h ute J A LINE of new faces is weaving its way across the screens of the world; Facing up to Fame. Each year brings its new crop of names and personalities;, this year, more than ever, the big studios are offering for our entertainment a list of new names that should leave a permanent imprint in our ...

... W bo Goes X here I Old Frontiers are Gone. The JVill to Good and the JVill to Evil is all that now Divides By I. A. R. Wylie THE young man in the shabby polo coat glanced at his wrist watch. What he saw startled him. He must have slept or passed out for a bit. They should be seeing the lights of the Hamburg aerodrome and he couldn't even see the wing light nearest him. But he could see faces ...

... On Duty -and Off I WONDER if the queer assortment of general knowledge we have acquired lately will be in any way useful to us after the war. Perhaps the fact that you are able to discuss with assured intelligence such subjects as blast, the antics of incendiaries and the intricacies of Government forms will prove an asset at the post-war dinner table, but I doubt it. Meantime, our out look on ...

... loutitvMotrage Uvwnide By Sylvia Page The Luftwaffe had worked up to a very spiteful mood before I could bring myself to leave the comfort of my centrally heated London home for the country. I like soft living. I like it so much that it took persuasion in the shape of fifteen hundred pounds of explosive on our front doorstep to move me. I did move then, rather hastily, but with very little ...