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... The Royal Family at Home Some New Pictures These charming informal pictures of the King and Queen and their daughters were taken recently at one of the Royal Palaces, in anticipation of the eighteenth birthday of Princess Elizabeth on April 21. Although she will not come of age in the full legal sense until she is twenty-one, on attaining the age of eighteen the Princess will qualify under the ...
... I D RF.SCOTT There may be some difficulty inobtainingDrescott Clothes, as supplies are limited owing to the necessary restriction of all civilian wear. But they will repay the extra trouble in lpoking for them. CLOTHES DUDLEY- WORCESTERSHIRE ...
... Conflicting Interests Are Choice Farm Lands to be taken for Houses and Factories? [By Our Parliamentary Correspondent] Westminster, Monday March 27. PITY the poor Government! Their position vis-Ã -vis Scott, Barlow and Uthwatt reminds one of those trying situations which arise as the result of an unguarded offer of living space to not very well-beloved relatives. When the trio first came to ...
... 0 uJ A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Bombs and After LT.-COL. THE HON. SIR PIERS LEGH had many congratulations on his recent lucky escape, when he received cuts about the head, but no really serious injuries, in a bomb incident in a recent raid. Lady Legh and their daughter, who were in the same room as Sir Piers when the bomb fell, had even more fortunate escapes. Neither was ...
... j Howard Coster, F.R.S.A, The new Minister of Health has reached Ministerial rank within three-and-a-half years of entering Parliament as National Conservative Member for North Croydon. For three years from September 1940, Mr. Willink was Special Commissioner for the Care and Rehousing of the Homeless in the London Civil Defence Region, and when he gave up this post, Mr. Ernest Brown, then ...
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... AIR EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Enforced Air-Mindedness THE German bomber does one thing it does not mean to do (and I am not referring to the scatter ing of incendiaries over the' good earth), and that is it stimulates interest in aviation. There is an avidity for aeronautical information immediately after an enemy raid, which must be largely attributable to the acute air-consciousness which is ...
... .WW, hive a grand ally! hesro designers are lull of enthusiasm for their new illy I â– liilized brand fabrics! They say Ihese won- 'ei',l,l lasted crease-resistant fabrics enable them to 1 y 011 their cleverest style ideas because they drape subtly. Fabrics branded 'Tebilized' also have ^bler dyes, reduced shrinkage-risk and longer useful ''e thrifty qualities that make every one of the 'ew ...
... BUBBLE SQUEAK Stories from Everywhere THE salesman stopped his car at a farmhouse and asked the way to the nearest hotel. The farmer pointed down the road. You turn left at the schoolhouse, he advised. Then you go straight ahead till you get to Gad Shor's house. There you take the left fork in the road and keep ridin' for five miles. The salesman nodded. That's clear enough. he said. And ...
... GENERAL ALEXANDER VISITS THE ANZIO BEACHHEAD: ACCOMPANIED BY HIS A.D.C., THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF INSPECTS THE SHELL-BATTERED TOWN AFTER HAVING ATTENDED A MOMENTOUS MEETING WITH THE ALLIED WAR CORRESPONDENTS WITH THE BEACHHEAD FORCES On February 14 General Sir Harold Alexander paid a visit to the Anzio front. During the course of this he addressed the assembled war correspondents in the ...
... U.S. PINCERS IN THE PACIFIC DIRECTED AT THE GREAT JAPANESE BASE AT TRUK A map which shows how the Naval, Air and Army pincers by striking at the first Japanese defence lines at Wake, the Gilberts, New Guinea and Rabaul are squeezing the enemy out of the mid- Pacific and pushing the war closer to Japan. A 1,500-mile advance for the United States in the Pacific looms with the opening of a new ...
... BEYOND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Russian tank crews checking their weapons before going out on a battle mission. They are wearing their white protective uniforms for work amidst the Arctic snows HOW THE RUSSIAN INFANTRY GO INTO ACTION They are carried up to the battle-line by reindeer-drawn sleds across the frozen tundra. They then deploy to attack the enemy in the cold and misty Arctic half-light ...