... THE SPERRY AUTOMATIC COMPUTING GUNSIGHT which is carried in each Fortress. This is a super-adding machine which works out the height, range, speed, etc., of enemy fighters for the air gunners. Deflection, gravity pull, the relative speeds of the two aircraft, are all calculated in the plane by these wonderful mechanical brains A CLOSER VIEW OF THE SPERRY COMPUTER SIGHT, which enables tk ...

... It would appear that, for the attack on New Georgia, the island of Guadalcanar had been selected as the operational base: to this spot, ac cordingly, a big American convoy sailed carrying men, munitions and supplies. En route, it was heavily attacked from the air, but the Japs were unable to arrest its progress, or even to slow its pace. It is probable that the vessels used for the New Georgia ...

... Third of a Series of Special Articles Dealing with the Response of the British Commonwealth of Nations By CHARLES GRAVES NO words oi praise can be too high for the part played by New Zealand in this war. Although her population is only 1,641,000, she has 157,000 men in the armed forces, who have won over Soo decorations as well as 420 Mentions in Dispatches. And throughout the war she has ...

... Two Sisters ai d Their Children The Countess of Birt nlieacl and Lady Sherwood with It eir Families The Countess of Birkenhead had her sister, Lath Sherwood, and her two boys, Philip and Christopher Chctwode, staying with her at Audlcy Wood, near Basingstoke, when these pictures were taken. She herself has two chil dren, Viscount Furneaux and Lady Juliet Smith. Lady Birkenhead and Lady ...

... Mission to Moscow An -Authentic Picture of Contemporary History Dedicated to the Free Men of the World The film Mission to Moscow which is now showing at Warner's Theatre, Leicester Square, is the pictorial record of the journeyings of Mr. Joseph E. Davies, who was sent by President Roosevelt to learn the truth about the U.S.S.R. the people, their leaders and their purpose. Mr. Davies, a ...

... Lawn Tennis at Queen's Club I Spectators and Players Give Their Support to the Red Cross The chief attraction at a recent meeting at Queen's Club, organised in aid of t he Red Cross, was an exhibition match between Mrs. E. W. A. Bostock (Jean Nicoll that was) and Mrs. F. H. Vivian (the former Peggy Seriven). The match went on for two hours (Mrs. Bostock having won the first set 7-5) without ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen First Novel RIGHT away in the country, out of reach of the new books, and not yet reached by any of them, I have celebrated a week of summer and holiday by roving round the shelves of my own library and re-making the acquaintance of old friends. There is some thing timeless-looking about these rows of book backs: sunshine coming in through the big windows has faded reds, ...

... . PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEYSTONE. General Bernard MONTGOMERY, of the famous Eighth Army, victor of North Africa and Commander of the British Forces in Sicily, paid a secret visit to England in May and was in this country for a fortnight. One of his most important engage ments was a visit to his only I son, DAVID BERNARD MONTGOMERY, who is at Amesbury School. Our photographs show the General ...

... PEG-BOARD TESTS TO KEEP SQUARE PEGS OUT OF ROUND HOLES I A MERICAN women applicants for war jobs are tried out by special intelligence tests which enable their general aptitude or special talents to be assessed, and help employers to avoid the danger of putting them in work to which they are temperamentally or physically unsuited. These tests seem pretty simple, but they are arranged in ...

... A PEG-BOARD TEST FOR MANUAL DEXTERITY The girl must pick the pegs up and arrange them on the other side of the board in the same pattern. TWEEZER DEXTERITY TEST This helps to rate the ability of a girl to work with small tools, as she has to pick pegs out of holes with small tweezers and rearrange them. The BLOCK TEST is a fairly simple try -out for quickness of hand. The girl has to put ...

... . GROUP CAPTAIN ADOLPH GYSBERT SAILOR MALAN, South African- born Ace R.A.F. pilot, won the D.F.C. at Dunkirk, and a Bar to it for night operations in 1940, and was awarded the D.S.O. for fighter operations over England and the Channel in the same year, and a Bar to it in 1941 for ops. over France. He also has the Croix de Guerre (avec Palme). Not long ago he entertained a thousand guests in ...

... BARBARA STANWYCK AS THE STRIPTEUSE HEROINE OF A BACK-STAGE MURDER THRILLER. BARBARA STANWYCK plays Dixie Daisy in STRIPTEASE LADY, the United Artists release picture version of Gypsy Rose Lee's best-seller novel G- String Murders which is due for presentation at the Odeon, Leicester Square, -on July 30. Gypsy Rose Lee is herself a famous American slripleuse and her thriller, with a bach ...