... I JVhere The H eart n\ The world is full of sentimentalists. Even the toughest people have their vulnerable spots. Some of us are sentimental about dogs others about moonlight on a lake. We have our differences of opinion about these things, but there is one point at which opinion converges, and that is upon the sentimental appeal of Home. Christmas has its own peculiar stimulus in this sense. ...

... Qhristmas giving s NEVER before in our lifetime has Christmas depended so utterly on the individual effort. You can have a real Christmas-hater's season with every excuse in the world; or with a little ingenuity and work you can still make it as thrilling and loving and giving as usual. Forget those accumu lative instincts that the war has fostered, and, if you are a town-dweller, send some of ...

... ji THESE are hard times for present-giving and gifts for children are a severe tax on the imagination. At the same time, good may come of it if the extra thought that giving demands just now should make an end of those haphazard gifts with which we were all afflicted once and from which children most particularly suffered. If we look back upon the times when, at Christmas, children were ...

... Portraits by The Men Who, in Close C for All the Offensive Air 0 ^uthbert Orde llaboration, are Responsible aerations from This Country Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, K.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C. The Germans have cause to fear the name of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris, C.-in-C. Bomber Command. Since taking over the Command in February 1942, at a time when the expansion of our air ...

... At Home Pictures of Mr. and Mrs. George King Mr. George King is the film director- producer, whose company, British Aviation Pictures, was responsible for The First of the Few and his wife is a daughter of Mr. John Hutton, chair man of Kempton Park Racecourse. They are both very interested in horses, and Mrs. King's activities in clude running her own farm, Tunmore, near West Horsley, ...

... ■^4 By Sabretache H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester THE Governor-General-elect of Australia is not the only person due for congratulations, for his new charge thinks that it also should be felicitated. In this, I am sure, Australia is correct, and it is also certain that she is getting the right Man for Galway. It has always been my impression that the word Australia has been wrongly spelt, for ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Theirs or Ours THE argument about whether it is possible, from the sound of the engine alone, to tell if an aeroplane is friendly or hostile, has begun all over again. But I have heard some rather more ingenious explanations of how the trid can be done than used to be offered at the time of the blitz. It is suggested, for instance, that if you take up your ...

... AIRCRAFT DESIGNER, DIRECTOR, GENERAL BOTTLE -WASHER MRS. F. G. MILES. MR F. G. MILES standing by the Miles Master II.. the world's fastest training aeroplane. Mrs. Miles studies a drawing produced by one of the pupils of the technical school which she runs in connection with the aircraft factory. Discussing the design of a new aeroplane with one of the draughtsmen. Outside one of the great ...

... . MAJOR-GENERAL FREDERICK F. WORTHINGTON, C.B., M.C., M.M., is Canada s leading tank expert. After the last war, with the rank of captain he was trans ferred to the Canadian Permanent Machine-Gun Brigade and then to Princess Patricia's C.L.I. In 1936 he came to England to machine-gun and tank schools and the Army Armoured Fighting Vehicles School, and on his return became chief instructor of ...

... . 44 It entitled 4 Swan Song Blore (PERCY WALSH), Marston (MICHAEL BLAKE), Lombard (TERENCE DE MARNEY), Vera (LINDEN TRAVERS), Sir Lawrence (ALLAN JEAYES), Rogers (WILLIAM MURRAY), Emily (HENRIETTA WATSON) and the General (ERIC COWLEY) with the gramophone record. i That 's our warning Phillip Lombard draws the attention of Vera Claythorne and Sir Lawrence Wargrave to the sinister implications ...

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... Two Over the Eight Of Ten Little Niggers Only Two Survive nagine a lonely island off the Devon coast imagine ten people, itherto unknown to each other, gathered there; imagine their t actions when each discovers that a guilty, conscience-stricken past is common to them all imagine their feelings when one by ^ne their number is diminished by accident and untimely death nagine their suspicion ...