... Quiet Week-End At Esther McCracken's Northumberland Home Esther McCracken, authoress of Quiet Wedding and its record-breaking successor, Quiet Week- End, is the owner of Rothley Lake House, near Morpeth, where she works hard on the farm of 23 acres. Her husband, Lt.-Col. McCracken, is serving with the Eighth Army, and until a year ago, she herself was in the W.R.N.S. acting as a driver in her ...

... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country The King's Travels IT was immediately after our final victory in Tunisia that the King first expressed his wish to go out and see the Anglo-American victors, but his visit was impossible until the armies had regrouped after fighting had finished --a process that naturally took some little time-- and when this had been done, Mr. Churchill was out of the ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Sub-Station HENRY GREEN is one of the most interesting of our contemporary novelists. Either in spite of, or because of, this, he is not yet one of the best known. His experiments in technique have been made with a view to finding, as every writer should do, his own approach to reality. In his style, more often than in his subjects, he breaks with conventions. He may ...

... WAY OF THE WAR By Foresight Surrender EVERY day the Italians undergo a propaganda offensive. They are told through the radio that they must defy their leaders and withdraw from the war. There are no terms to induce them to do this. They must surrender unconditionally. The British and United States Governments are agreed that this must be the only policy. They refuse to make Italy's ...

... This Ladd Quits Racketeering For Romance Learning to Love China and Loretta Young, and Dying a Hero's Death for Both, is Tough- guy Alan Ladd's New Role An intensely dramatic story unfolded against a momentous backdrop of heroism, romance and high adventure. That's Paramount's own description of their big picture China which came to the Plaza on June 18. Alan Ladd, Killer No. 1, who made his ...

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