... pERHAPS the chief element which contributes to the joyousness of Christmas is giving. Everyone is bent on bringing gladness to others. We would like you to remember the work of JOHN GROOM'S CRIPPLE- AGE, founded by the late John Groom and the great Earl of Shaftesbury. We rely on the public, more than ever, to support the training and maintaining of crippled girls bringing relief and partial ...

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... North Star Lilian Hellman's Screen Play of the Steel-Hearted Russians amuel Goldwyn has collected an impressive ist for his film tribute to Soviet Russia, ith Ann Harding, Walter Huston, Walter rennan and Erich von Stroheim are Anne axter, Dana Andrews and Jane Withers, le filin is a grim indictment of Nazi ruth- 1 ssness and brings home yet once again t :e terrible sufferings of people ...

... Many Happy Returns Prince William Celebrates His Second Birthday on December 18 th An exciting event is in store for the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester's young son, for he is to accompany his parents to Australia when the Duke takes up his appointment as Governor-General of the Common wealth. Prince William, born on December 18th two years ago, is fourth in direct succession to the throne, and ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Empty Pleasure-Ground THE French Riviera, left desolate by the fall of France, is the dramatic back ground of Peter de Polnay's new novel, Water on the Steps (Secker and Warburg; 9s. 6d.). In the glare of the summer of 1941 stand the shut-up villas and deserted restaurants. The dazzling stretches of the coast roads are empty, no longer humming with great cars. The few little ...

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... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE senior warden and his assistant were on night patrol. To their great indignation they came upon a light beaming from an uncurtained window. Inside a very charming young woman was undressing. Struth! exclaimed the assistant. ihis will never do. It certainly will not, agreed his senior. She must be told about it- tomorrow! One night at a theatre a man ...

... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Homogeneity IN the official communiques which reported the series of raids on Berlin an other German targets during November there appeared one new fact, was that some of the Berlin raids were made by all Lancaster forces and some of the other raids by all Halifax forces. There is known to be an advantage using all the same type of machine for an attacking force. ...

... The Epic Story of Two Survivors of a Torpedoed Merchantman rT'he pictures on this page show the dramatic rescue of Ship's Carpenter Kenneth Cooke, G.M., of Bridlington, and A. B. Colin Armitage, of Melton, Yorks., the only two men who survived the terrible ordeal of fifty days on a raft in the South Atlantic. Sixteen men escaped death when their ship was torpedoed. All were aboard the raft ...

... The Er.d of Vicky over Italy Four Dramatic Pictures Showing the Break-up of a Stricken Bomber 1 AFTER THE VICKY HAD BEEN HIT, she drops her bomb-load before attempting to make a forced landing in hostile territory O SURROUNDED BY OTHER FORTRESSES, the pilot is now beginning to pull his aircraft away from the rest of the bomber formation This series of very striking photographs show a Flying ...

... Vivid Impressions Recorded by the Cameras During R.A.F. Raids over Germany and Occupied Europe The three remarkable night photographs reproduced here show how the fantastic patterns of enemy tracer fire are recorded by the cameras carried in R.A.F. aircraft whilst making heavy attacks on objectives in enemy and enemy-held territory. As the planes cross the target area, the camera shutters are ...

... YY/hen the Martin Mars was built as an experimental flying-boat, it was intended to carry a crew of eleven it was equipped with powerful defensive armament and had a capacity as a troop transport for 150 men with full equipment. It carried on board a collapsible motor lifeboat with an outboard engine, as well as several rubber life-saving rafts. At the end cf 1942 the prototype was being ...