... !_/ wonder if they'd let me do my own job in the A.T.S. And give me extra training to get me on quickly And would there be any hope of getting a commission fairly soon I wonder if shorthand typists get a chance to keep their speeds up 7 Do the cookery girls really learn catering Why do they want girls who've been trained saleswomen 1 Could I really get into Radiolocation It all sounds too good ...

... THE SQUADRON LEADER OF AN AIRACOBRA SQUADRON (a holder of the D.F.C.) climbing into the cockpit of his plane THE NEW AMERICAN ADDITIONS TO THE R.A.F. The unorthodox Beil Airacobras which are. now in actual service and flying with the Fighter Command in Britain TAKING OFF A picture which shows the unusual appearance of the Airacobra's tricycle undercarriage THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC A ...

... ^1/ifl^AjJyjj- (tsl iiu 1\vh>isuj Citizen Kane By James Agate ONE of the disadvantages of all kinds of criticism, including that of the film, is that the better it is the greater the probability that it will lead you up the garden. I practically never read the film criticisms in the Observer and the Sunday Times until after I have seen the films for myself, the reason being that our Sunday ...

... Citizen Kane Mag ate into Monster: Fifty Crowded Years of Wasted Life j| pfe>y* vwtf, scfo^s;>'1 n^s BF n 9H Orson Welles as Citizen Kane 8. Epilogue. Kane dies at seventy-Jive. A news-reel staff working among the art treasures attempt to unravel the mystery behind ''Rosebud f/ie /asf word to pass his lips 6. Divorced Kane mar ries his pretty singer, spends nearly a million on building her ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Lunch Hour By Bridget Chetwynd CLARIDGE’S is very popular at lunch time-- the entrance is almost like a railway station at holiday time, with people dashing in, looking at the clock, shouldering about looking for other people, demanding change for taxis, saying, Oh, there you are-- There 's just time-- (For a drink before the train leaves.) And in ...

... Three Generations Lord and Lady Hot ham With Their Parents and Their Son and Heir Lord Hotham, who succeeded his cousin in 1923 as seventh Baron, married in 1937 Lady Letitia Sibell Winifred Cecil, elder daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Exeter. They have a son and heir, Henry Durand, born in May 1940, who is a godson of the Duchess of Gloucester. Lord Hotham's places in Yorkshire ...

... At intervals during the last year the voice of Germany's greatest living author has been heard in the land from which he is exiled. He speaks into the microphone in America on problems close to the German heart, his broad- east is picked up and recorded in London, and then re-broadcast to Germany by the B.B.C. overseas service. It was in 1938 that the sixty-three-year-old writer had to leave ...

... AMERICA UNDERTAKES THE REPAIR OF DAMAGED BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS: LIEUTENANT ROBERT ALEXANDER, COMMANDER OF H.M. SUBMARINE PANDORA, WITH HIS VESSEL IN THE U.S. NAVY YARD AT PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE It has been announced during recent weeks that quite a number of British Naval vessels have gone to America for repairs and overhauls the advantages of such an arrangement, which permits the ...

... TWO OF THE MEN WHO HAVE JOINED AN ARMY COMMANDO trying out their specialised equipment in the field ONE ASPECT OF THE MEN'S SPECIAL TRAINING Racing up a steep hillside with full equipment a task which calls for the very highest physical fitness Details have just been released of the Army's Commandos. These units of highly trained, picked men have been recruited from nearly every regiment of ...

... The ASSAULT on MOSCOW How the German Forces had been Assembled for the Great Attack of which Hitler Boasted in Advance Special Sphere diagrams I THE MASSING OF THE GERMAN LEGIONS ALONG THE HISTORIC ROAD TO MOSCOW How the Nazis mounted their terrific frontal assault on the Russian capital along the road which was traversed by Napoleon in 1812 AN ESSENTIAL JOB BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES Men in the ...

... FINDING the TARGET How Pilot and Bomb-Aimer Work Together Described by KENELM LOCKE THE steady roar of the Merlins has been drum ming in our ears for some time, and a note from the navigator says that we should soon be over the target. It 's damned cold up here, and the windscreen has been frosted over for some time. Oil-pressure, height, engine revs., air speed, all O.K. They have been all ...

... MEDITERRANEAN EPISODE: SrVLI AN ITALIAN TORPEDO-DROPPING AIRCRAFT ON FIRE AFTER IT HAD CRASHED INTO THE SEA Eleven aircraft in all were destroyed. Ark Royal is seen on the right RING THE PASSAGE OF THE CONVOY: The Aircraft-Carrier Ark Royal and H.M.S. Nelson as seen from a British cruiser S. NELSON, 34,000-TON BATTLESHIP, after being hit by a torpedo dropped an Italian aircraft. The ...