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Hostages of the Nazis

... By Ferdinand Tuoky I HAVE to chance the war being over by the time this article appears. I have got to chance the subject with which it treats being over too: solved. I sincerely hope it will be. But, Nazis being what they are, I very much doubt it. Let us face an unfortunate fact, ror longer than you or I should care to remember, it has been the habit in these wise isles to debate on the ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1696 | Page: Page 15, 66 | Tags: Photographs 

Glimpses of Old Mayfair: Impressions of a Changing Scene

... Glimpses of Old May fair Impressions of a Changing Scene By Wilma Buckley LONG after Mayfair-- as we know it-- has ceased to be, the name will survive as the symbol of an idiosyncratic standard of obsolete elegance, the quintessence of careless, glamorous (what other word will serve so well?), fashionable living: everything that is epitomized in the twentieth-century expression West End and ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1229 | Page: Page 31, 58 | Tags: Photographs 

Slimming Sweater

... MATERIALS 8 oz. Sirdar Super Shetland 3-ply 4 buttons No. 9 and No. 11 needles. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. length, 20 ins. sleeve seam, 18 ins. TENSION 7 sts. and 9 rows to 1 in. THE BACK AND FRONT Start at join of yoke on No. 9 needles and work downwards, making 2 pieces as follows Cast on 56 sts. Work 4 rows k. 5th row. K. twice into first st. K. to end, ending k. 2 tog. 6th row. P. ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 592 | Page: Page 44, 64 | Tags: Photographs 

C. STILLITZ, ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

... C. STILLIT2. ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA STILLITZ. ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA tfcket ve/vta Jacket) The extremely useful 'ZWOW' Pocket in place of the ugly, line destroying placket, with its bulging buttons or metal fasteners, is just one of the features which make 'Gor-ray' Skirts so desirable. Good drapers and stores stock them in many styles. ,/f/l ifw (etki vi tfie Zu'OW '.Pocfd h V J issued by ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... You remember the day when you declared for brighter bathrooms and yielded at last to the appeal of those beautiful, pastel-tinted VANTONA towels? Morning Joy was the special name for them, wasn't it? How good to find now that the name still rings true, that your VANTONA towels wear and wear as if they knew that there was a war on. They'll last till happier days bring you more selections of ...

A Clean Sweep

... .1 Greater Fear titan any Pilot had ever knotvn racked Itclbos every lime he Fletv Over France By Stanley Jackson IN November, 1937, the people of X-sur-Mer were shocked by a crime that held the front page for nearly a week before it was crowded out by international fears, hopes and Hitler's assurances of goodwill towards all men. Stripped of exaggeration and the usual hints that the police ...

The Battle for Altitude

... Franh Illinytvorth MANIPULATING his Spitfire with body movements when paralysis bound his limbs, almost blind with altitude pains, Pilot Officer Reynolds clung to the 86P's tail. Up, up, up amid the fantastic world of the sub-stratosphere where the sky deepens from purple to black, the sun looks like the moon, and what meteorologists call filaments float by. And when, at last, the enemy plane ...

Wide-Ribbed Jerkin: MATERIALS

... ra-rr i MATERIALS 6-oz. Lister's Lavenda, 3-ply No. 9 and No. 11 needles rs. 3 buttons. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 in. length, 23 in. TENSION 7 J st. and 9 rows to 1 in. THE BACK Cast on 96 st. with No. 9 needles. Work the following rib: 1st row (right side of work).-- P. 6, *(k. 2 tog., but do not s. off needle, k. again into first st. and s. both st. off) twice, p. 12. Repeat from* to end ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 420 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Photographs 

Are Your EYES RIGHT?

... LOOK yourself straight in the eye. Are your eyes getting the attention they need Will they look young and ■J act young in years to come Eyes are practically the most important link between you and the world about you certainly between you and your associates. Yet they are the Cinderella feature as far as health and beauty are concerned. They will endure endless strain without more protest ...

Books

... : Reviewed by Trevor ^Allen PROBABLY the most tense episode in our naval war was the hunting and killing of the Bismarck after the loss of the Hood. One may relive the radio excitement of that chase in Commander E. Keble Chatterton's The Royal Navy: January, 1941-- March, 1942 (Hutchinson, 21s.), a period which included also the Balona bombardment, Cape Matapan battle, and loss of ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1618 | Page: Page 43, 54 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

Cooking For One

... DEVILS ON HORSEBACK (Breakfast or Supper) Buy ¼lb. of liver sausage, remove the skin, and mash the meat in a bowl with a teaspoonful of mixed herbs. Roll the mixture into two fat sausages the width of a piece of bacon, wrap a rasher round each and secure tightly with a pointed match stick or small skewer. Fry quickly over a medium flame and eat off a piece of hot margarined toast. ROMAN BEEF ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 718 | Page: Page 48, 49 | Tags: Photographs 

Wright's

... Coal TarSoab f Remember your (tne e/eft/iaat never finpefe) For over three-quarters of a century Coal Tar Soap has remained the favourite soap for family use and in nurseries and schools. Today its cleansing and protective properties are also specially appre ciated by members of the forces on service at home or abroad. m| raw r:'!: ...