... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. An Open Book. Would that I were one of those gifted persons who could read the stars like an open book and tell you all that is going to happen in 1944! The only thing I can tell you definitely about 1944 is that it is going to be a Leap Year (though, in view of the bigamy statis tics, I should not have thought that quite necessary), and that Mars will be in the ...

... . By N. G. STRONG. THERE'S a man-eating Commission escaped, announced the Captain's secretary, and it's heading this way. There are glooms and glooms; from the mild depression to the black, despondent gloom. That which now permeated the wardroom of Mudsea Naval Base was of the genuine Stygian variety. The Waste Prevention Officer was the first to attempt to combat the quivering silence, ...

... BURBERRYS ltd. BURBERRYS BURBERRYS Burberrys, the registered -trade name, is British, but knows no borders in its fame and only knows one limit to the quality of the clothes that bear its name the best. In war, as in peace, Burberrys is a front line term for Services Equipment to the United Forces. Weatherproofs, Greatcoats and Uniforms are Burberrys contribution in a vital war of supply. ...

... ME MOTOR INDUSTRY ME MOTOR INDUSTRY XamtkeTuihT'utHSpcttte'i.. When tanks go into battle, I'm not so far away. For only I can pick up these steel-clad monsters weighing 20 tons or more and bring them back to the repair shops. I'm made by the Motor Industry with that same high precision which goes into the production of those other instruments of war, which are flowing from the factories of ...

... umum 1 1 *W-' *1 -----mmm c*&-wtts£!!& 1 for LEFT The belt of this three-quarter-length model is slotted through the side seams it can be worn in front, at the back, or not at all. From Jaeger's. (18 coupons.) CENTRE Marshall and Snelgrove still have a few pieces of boxcloth, pre-war quality and in hunting pink. The coat sketched is half-lined, so it needs only 15 coupons. RIGHT Another ...

... Ol! 'OO GOES THERE, CAROLINE TUBBS A BETTER MAN THAN YOU ARE, GEORGE SPRAT! B DRAWS BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... Pilots By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Faith always said she was going to have her baby on Christmas Day, and she did. The birth was what the Doctors call easy and uneventful (as though any birth could be either!), and Faith came through with flying colours, but we had a terrible time with the Conductor. It was about 4 a.m. on Christmas Eve morning when I woke up and found the Conductor ...

... , FROM AUSTINS TO AUSTIN OWNERS THE TASTER YOU GO THE FASTER GO YOUR TYRES How tempting, with the urgency of war- work as an tAvUOVj LU glVC jUUl Club 1111 its head on the open road. But how much better for the war effort to set out earlier if you pan and take it slower. Tyres running at 30 m.p.h. last twice as iong as at 50 m.p.h. Higher speeds are very much more destructive. Rough surfaces ...

... |l a breach of Security. By PATRICK SAXON. f IT was the turn of Engineer F. Rose, a smooth lad with a roving eye, to tell the truth-stranger-than-fiction story, a weekly institution in the wardroom of the Incredible. Glasses were charged and cigarettes were lit as the Engineer told the following story. Quite a lot of books have been written about Great Men and their Home Lives the Admiral ...

... The Minni Cup Norsemen toasted Thor and Odin and living kings in the minni. What the drink was we do not know possibly a kind of spruce beer but minni came to have the meaning of love, memory and the thought of absent ones and the custom survived in England down to the middle ages and later in the minnying or mynde days. Schweppes famous since IJf)0 Temporarily giving place to the ...

... j IT- FITNESS FOB I PUJRPOSE IN these days of restricted buying, one worth-while truth learned is that the best is cheapest in the end. It applies to guns and planes just as much as to shoes and ships and sealing-wax. To electric fires, too THE Ferranti Radiant Fire has always been the cheapest to use, though never the cheapest to buy. THE present restricted output of electric fires has ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Too Bad Having long since humbly acknowledged the inferiority of my own sex. I had supposed that the good old days of Women's Rights-- and still more of Women's Wrongs were gone beyond recall. I ought to have known better; for life is very dull without grievances, and, after all, girls will be girls and wives will be wives. They are feeling very sore, I gather, ...