... . By ALAN KEMP. YOU Wood, Wood you, Sir Kings- ley? Eighteen shillings in the pound on incomes of £20,000! It just breaks one's heart. However patriotic one may be, it makes one feel that it simply isn't worth while earning an income of £20,000 a year. I just won't play, Sir Kingsley I know the country must have money, but I do hope you realise how discour aging it is to many of us to feel ...

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Ever since the Soldiery arrived in this town a patriotic fervour has been sweeping it like a prairie fire, and everybody is getting an immense amount of fun out of it. People who had begun to get a little down in the mouth are now as happy as bees. Everywhere you meet them hurrying down the street with tense bossing- and-fussing expressions on their faces. ...

... THE INTRUSIONS OF DR. CZISSAR.* By ERIC AMBLER. Author of The Mask of Demetrius. VI.-- THE CASE OF THE GENTLEMAN POET. IT was after the murderer of Felton Spenser had been tried and convicted that Assistant-Commissioner Mercer finally became resigned to the occasional intrusions of Dr. Jan Czissar into the affairs of his department at New Scotland Yard. For that reason alone, the case would ...

... SORRY, MUM I THOUGHT IT WAS THE AIR-RAID WARNING I DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... THEATRES OF WARTIME LONDON. By THEODORA BENSON and BETTY ASKWITH, i Authors of Foreigners or the World in a Nutshell. No. 20. COTTAGE TO LET, AT WYNDHAM'S. LAURA was im mensely sur prised when Rodney, over dinner at the York Minster, told her that he had got tickets tor Wyndham's. She had ex pected either the ballet, or some quaint little theatre with only fifty members, or some rather ...

... .* By F. KESTON CLARKE. MISS LINWOOD'S landlady was heavily jocular about it. She beamed along the breakfast-table. Now, don't be late. Auntie. It 's your big day, you know. And the baldheaded lodger, who always took his tone from the landlady, chuckled. Yes, Auntie. Thirty-five years, isn't it, you 've had behind the bars Quite a stretch. While the lady with the earrings, who worked at a ...

... , , MINISTRY OF FOOD THE WEEK'S FACTS No. 5 Do you feel, as many women do, that war-time house keeping would be easier if only you could count on getting a little special advice from a kitchen expert? Here's your chance without trouble, without cost, without even having to leave your own home. Just switch on your radio every morning at 8.15. You'll hear the answers to your own kind of food ...

... HURRICANE ON PATROL The magnificent part played by the f 1 R.A.F. against Germany's numerically superior Luftwaffe will live long in the glorious traditions of the British Empire _jame Victory through Courage Success through Quality HUNTLEY PALMERS FOUNDED 1826 BREAKFAST the Biscuit that has enjoyed fame for over half a century MADE BY HUNTLEY PALMERS THE SKETCH IN WARTIME /\WING to the ...

... The National Savings Committer L 1 i Think of Great Britain as one great factory. Working at full pressure its output of goods can be vastly increased. But from this entire output must come both the needs of the fighting services and the requirements of the rest of us. The Services must come first. The war must be won and in the shortest possible time. This means and we must face the hard ...

... . W. Heath Robinson s fertile brain is still busy with plans to supplement our home-defence system. This clever scheme for smashing enemy tanks, should they succeed in reaching this country is based on the well-known inability of the German to resist a tankard or stein of foaming beer. It tvill make the natural desire for a quick one produce an equally rapid manifestation of Blitzkrieg methods ...

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... . By ALAN KEMP. Q. What is your idea of misery A Breaking an egg in my pocket. Q. Have you had the measles If so, how many IT was thus that Mark Twain, more than fifty years ago, made fun of the official questionnaire. Though the thing had, even at that date, the germs of nuisance and absurdity in it, Mark can scarcely have guessed what dimensions it would attain. The quiz, the probe, the poll ...