... NOW that the public are recognising the edible qualities of spider crabs and crayfish, mention of certain other overlooked or despised foods may not be out of place. Before the war, great quantities of cockles and winkles used to be imported: only a fraction of the millions of pounds eaten in this country were home-produced in such places as the Gower Peninsula and the Dorset coast gatherers ...

... Sky High (Phcenix) THE standard of intimate revue in London is certainly not improving. Sky High, at the Phoenix, has far too many stretches of utter dullness, and it is a pity that Mr. Naunton Wayne, who is an admirable comedian, with a pleasurablv individual style, has to figure in so many of them. What the point was in his song about the Isle of Man I fail to see-- at least, I hope I fail, ...

... The Best Play Since the War Watch on the Rhine, at the Aldwych Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine., the finest American play of 1941, is now repeating its Broadway success in London. Victim of political persecution, penniless and exiled, Kurt Miiller, German anti-Nazi agent, is brought by Sara, his American wife, to the peaceful haven of her family's Washington home. The Midlers' three ...

... HOW STALIN STANDS TOWARDS CHRISTIANITY Religious Freedom Under the Soviets and Freedom for Anti-Religious Propaganda the Concessions which have been Made Towards Religion in Russia Since the Frankly Anti-Church Attitude of the Founders of Present-day Communism Described by FERDINAND TUOHY VATICAN broadcasts in which the Nazis are branded as the enemy of Christianity; ad missions by high ...

... I'm a sort of godmother to savings groups says Mrs. Venning, of Crouch House, Rickmansworth, Herts. TOOK on the organisation of War Savings Groups for J[ the town nearly three years ago Mrs. Venning, busy wife of a Rickmansworth doctor, is crisp and confident in telling of her splendid work for National Savings. It's gone like clockwork no half the doors I go to, I walk squabbles, steadily ...

... f -A The quality of Corundite plugs is predetermined by numerous tests in the K.l.G. Optical. Physical and Chemical laboratories, and no expense is spared to make them perfect. In spite of this they are still to be bought at the pre-War price. Your local garage may have some in stock now-- it's worth trying, for they will make a your engine if you can get a set. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 142 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Our Centenarian Con temporary.-- It is only on his hundredth birthday that a man in sists on his age. On every other day of his middle or old age a man is as old as he feels. And as with men, so with journals. The Illustrated Lon don News claimed on May 14, 1942, to be a centenarian. But on May 15 it felt (as usual) a mere boy. So long as ...

... C^ocLl at Is to Port AT a council meeting there was a discussion regarding mill for school-children. Said the chairman What this town needs is a supply of clean, fresh milk, and the council should take the bull by the horns and demand it. Visitor Why do you use such a heavy roller on your potato field Farmer Silly. We're growing mashed potatoes. Scientists have definitely proved that the ...

... ^£L ancf 2^otvn Cfte/aFtc^ THE deplorable way in which the news papers (whether by request or other wise) handled the early news from Libya has angered even the most unthinking sections of the electorate. Allowing for con cessions to Government suggestions or wishes, the headlines for a whole week, in some journals, gave an entirely false view of the situation. We blame the headline writers ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent THE gardening novice must often feel discouraged and even baffled at the confusing and apparently contradictory advice which is so freely offered. The ways and means of promoting steady and vigorous growth in vegetables always seem so con troversial, but having expressed my opinions, in the last issue, on surface cultivation and feeding, I now turn to the ...

... England at Play The King and Queen at Newmarket THE third wartime Oaks and Derby were made memor able by the visit of their Majesties, who, as shown overleaf, were on tour in East Anglia. Sun Chariot, the hottest favourite in memory for the Oaks, won in the royal colours, but Big Game failed to stay the course in the Derby, which was won by Lord Derby's Watling Street. Our exclusive pictures ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By foresight Tactics, Not Strategy HITLER'S attack on the Kerch Peninsula now appears in its proper perspective. It has been purely tactical, and only a preliminary to his grand spring strategy. Stalin was quick to appreciate this. Timo- shenko did not waste any time in launching a counter tactical offensive at Kharkov. This was to create a nuisance and if Hitler was compelled ...