... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Launching of H.M.S. Duke of York NEWS that Mr. Churchill made his Atlantic crossing in our newest battleship, H.M.S. Duke of York, brought a reminiscent thrill to the hearts of several hundred privileged people who saw the great ship launched into the Clyde during the first month of the war. It was a cold, raw, Scottish day when the King and Queen ...

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... Stories from Everywhere THE pilot had taken great pains to explain all about his machine to the pretty young visitor at the airport-- its mechanical features, purpose of this and that, what pilots did to meet actual flying conditions, etc. He looked at the girl and smiled: Now you understand, don t you? All but one thing, replied the girl. And what is that? he asked. What makes the thing stay ...

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... . The marriage of screen star MICKEY ROONEY to young starlet AVA GARDNER took place the other Jay in a little rustic Presbyterian Church at Ballard, California and was the biggest event ever recorded in the annals of that small farming town. Mickey Rooney has just finished an M.G.M. musical 44 Babes on Broadway with Judy Garland and is at work on a new picture in the inexhaustible Hardy series ...

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... Some of the Tricks which are To-day being Adopted by Reformers to Check the Freedom of the Forces-- of Both Sexes-- in Carrying on in Great Britain By FERDINAND TUOHY WE repeatedly learn from the best sources that this is going to be a long war (twenty-nine months of it is apparently to be regarded as the fish, or, at most, as the entrée stage). While I take leave to doubt if this august ...

... IN THE BALKANS ESPECIALLY, THE BITTER WINTER OF 1942 HAS MADE ITSELF FELT From Syria up to the Alps great blizzards have (for the second time) swept the whole of Southern Europe, bringing almost unprecedented snows Drawing by G. Lambert In January ol this year hurope experienced a second Ureat blizzard, which swept down from Russia across the whole of south-eastern Europe with disastrous ...

... THE DANGER OF PROXIMITY And the Menace of the Air-borne Torpedo to the Bis Capital Ship IN the early days of the big capital ships of the Royal Navy, when one spoke of dreadnoughts and two keels to one, one always thought of mighty vessels armed with huge guns with ranges fatal at 20 miles. At this colossal distance mortal blows were delivered whilst the enemy was still only a speck, or ...

... In the process of driving southwards towards the mam British and Dutch possessions in Malaya and the East Indies, the Japanese directed one of their attacks in force on Rabaul, the newly-constructed capital of New Britain (formerly a German island, subsequently mandated to Australia). The town was occupied only after a vigorous defence, the Australian forces in occupation there taking to the ...

... Lady Patricia llihherl is tin* only sister of Major the Marl of Ineheape. who succeeded his father in 1939. In 1938 she married Major Washington Hugh Hibbert of the (Queen's Hays, a nephew of Sir .lames Hope Nelson. Lady Patricia is doing her war work as a driver in the F.A.N.Y.s, She has a half-brother, the Hon. Simon Brooke Maekay, and a half-sister, Lady Rosemary Mackav, children of her ...

... Captains of the Clouds James Capney in a Film Tribute to The Royal Canadian Air Force Captains of the Clouds a Technicolor film directed bv Michael Curtiz, which will be presented by arners in London, New York and Ottawa simultaneously on February 12, is dedicated to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and particularly to those in the Service known as the Bush Pilots. These last are the men who fly ...