... By C. Patrick Thompson THE onlookers massed on the shore saw the tiny gleaming shape of the moon machine, which had seemed to be rushing to its doom, check, and check again, as the air screws caught and held. At a thousand feet it was evident that the machine was under control. It descended quite smoothly and slowly into the sea, and by the time the power-boats reached the spot, it had ...

... lftf Fcrdittttttti Tuohy WHILE our cinemas gradually assume their new and pre eminent role as temples of uplift, my chief reaction will not be of anger, or resentment, at other people's godliness being directed at uncon sulted Me in the back stalls. Rather shall I glance wistfully back at fascinating personalities of the past, a faithful screen ing of whose lives would collide with standards ...

... How Times 4n Change 2\ [o. 1 2 Christmas greetings IF the files of old newspapers are searched and note is taken concerning the weather ex perienced before or at Christ mas-time some half a century or so ago, it must be obvious that snow was not then the stranger in Decem ber that it usually is nowadays. The old-fashioned Christmas card confirms this because had not snow been a December ...

... Looking Ahead-- to th e B o on t int o II r Ferdinand Tuoln SOMEBODY told me I needed another hobby, so I've started collecting boons. The idea came one grey day as I read of another Benign Thing To Come. Of course! Now was the proper season, the latter part of wartime, that intent looking-ahead period. One could scarcely help seeing boons ahead. My opening entry chanced to be Traverse Machine ...

... I I 0 points you'll like about Spry 1 It's ready-creamed so light, so smooth. 2. It mixes at a touch. 3. Gives you lighter cakes and pastry. 4. Fries without smoke or smell. Makes everything more digestible. G_- Stays fresh and sweet indefinitely. SPR 65-5 tho, reachf onectmecj' -fat Spry is packed in handy tins-- they're cleaner and more convenient. Get in a supply and have Spry always ready. ...

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... Remember This August Some Elnshhochs of Events in the ffolitlotf Month of ftt.'t/i By Ferdinand Tnohy NOTHING much in that, said the war worker, tossing aside the daily paper. What has happened to all the things that used to go into the newspapers I mean, what did they fill the newspapers with before the war? It all seems so long ago can't even remember what the news bulletins 'were like ...