... Home Front (j* aracters-- T ese w By Ferdinand Tuohy THE talk had veered to wartime leakages of information in circles that ought to know better, when one of the company slowly expelled from his cigar and observed: All the same, it can't be as bad as it was in the last war. Remember the Repington crowd that used to forgather at luncheon and dinner tables several times a week and discuss ...

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... Wings Over Africa How the R.A.F. Swept the Italians from the Sky By Captain H. C. Biard (Schneider Trophy winner and world record breaker y IT is not easy for us at home to visualise African flying conditions. Cockpit temper- atures sometimes reach 130 degrees (ground shade temperature is often 110 degrees); gas masks are worn while flying to prevent dust nuisance in Ghibli storms; dust ...

... P rivate Life' ^of Uncle Sam Glimpses of Some of the Wlen who Direct or Obstruct r The United States' Immense Efforts to Help Britain Destroy Nazism Sy C. Patrick Thompson TO shoot, and perchance die-- or not to shoot? But, wait. Let us step back and get a perspective view on this question which-- as I write, in mid- May-- Uncle Sam anxiously asks himself. Life seemed well worth living on a ...

... No holiday plans this year? Nonsense. Authority smiles on a short holiday for everyone, so it is all the more necessary to plan in order to get the last ounce out of the short leisure to which we are entitled. Besides, planning is fun. Bedrock for any holiday design is this Whatever you have been doing during the last twelve months, stop doing it during your holiday. Or, anyway, stop it as far ...

... OTfiGWE'S TH 1 S baby's present-day perfection is another tri umph for COW GATE Milk Food. At birth, baby weighed only 41 pounds she was a prema ture baby and natural feed ing was impossible. In such an extremity the doctor of courseordered COW GATE. Because COW GATE is the world's finest milk, rich in the vitamins and brain and body building elements that every baby needs. And COW GATE is ...

... Weefabix Ltd., Mother doesn't 'Scout' any more! She's discovered Weetabix-- the British made nutty-flavoured cereal which is so good for promoting fine, firm teeth, sturdy limbs and healthy bodies. Made from sun-ripened wheat, containing the essential vitamin B.l and the vital mineral salts of the whole wheat berry. This delicious and sustaining food, for young and old alike, can be eaten dry, ...

... HEALTHY CAIHS for A, YOUR BABY Deep, peaceful, unbroken sleep is vital to infant growth. When baby is cross, fretful, sleepless, those weekly ounces of gain do not appear on the scales. Mother, take care Look to baby's digestion. The minute you see baby feverish, consti pated, suffering with wind, just give a little Milk of Magnesia Soon comes pleasant relief. Milk of Magnesia safely and ...

... SHE jd[f INTO THE WALLPAPER Everybody knows her, the sort of woman who is so completely nondescript that wherever she is, she just fades into the wallpaper. You will find it hard to build up a picture of her because she is the woman whose name you never remember, whose age you never bother to guess, whose eyes you never know the colour of, whose hair is just a nebulous and unpolished frame for ...

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... How the Navy T reats its Sick and Wounded By Frank C. Bo wen THE wonderful care which the Navy takes of its sick and wounded nowadays, care which is extended to the Merchant Navy in wartime, is in great contrast to the good old days when conditions were scandalous throughout the medical side. To begin with, the ships were almost invariably foul in every particular and, secondly, no care was ...

... Bach and Barebacks T he War's \nfluence on I Entertainments By Gordon Beckles THIS war opened with a lot of nostalgic flim-flam about the part that music and the drama were going to play in keeping up the spirits of the nation. Would everything be engulfed in a wave of barebacks and brazen farce, such as drenched entertainment in the last war Some hoped so, with memories of Afgar, Bing Boys, ...