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CORRECT!

ABSOLUTELY

CORRECT!

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THAT ONE WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY!

AH-EXCELLENT!"

--AND .IN THE COUNTRY,

THE SPEED LIMIT'S 45 MILES AN HOUR!

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43 WORLD'S END

Here's The Man With

Things To Think Of

THE man with 43 things to think of and the job of shooting down the enemy as well-that's the fighter pilot.

· Come into his cockpit à mo- ment and take a look round.

1. The ring sight for eight mu-

chine-guns.

2. Crash pad to take the edge off the shack if the plane crashes and the pilot is pitched for- ward.

3. Electric switches,

4. Indicator showing the oxyzen

necessary at any given height.

5. Indicator showing the oxygen

still in store,

6. Under-carriage and tall wheel

indicator.

7.

Emergency "Loost." This is where the pilot's hand Bles when he's in a jam. When he pulls out that know all other engine controls, except the throttle.

are cut out. This

gives the absolute maximum power for a top-speed swerve or dive, but it must only be for a minute or two. If that knob

were held out for longer the

engine would seize up, dle.

8. Clock, with stop-watch

trol.

9. Electric starter.

10. General Petrol switch

cot!-

11. forn to warn pilot if under-

carringe

landing.

is nut

12. Magneto switches.

down when

13. Navigation light switches.

14. Air

Air speed indicator.

15. Super-sensitive altimeter

rc-

the plane's height in

hundreds of feet,

10. Dash-board light.

17. Pilot's oxygen plug.

18. Tail trimming wheel.

19. Rudder bar.

20. Throttic (in pilot's band) and

petrol-und-air mixture lever.

21. Compass.

22. Directional gyro.

23. Gyro horizon, showing lateral

Liit,

24. Slip and turn indlentor.

25. Climb Indicator-thousands of

feet per minute.

20. Engine revolution indicator, 27. Boost gauge.

23. Oil and petrol pressure gauges 29. Oil temperature.

30. Starting primer.

31. Radiator temperature gauge, 32. Duplicator magneto switch. 33. Petrol gauge.

34. Switches for petrol supply

from individual tanks, 35. Light.

36. Lever for

wing flops.

Ane adjustment of

Swing's King Rumoumurs

is Sick of Jitterbugs

THE King of Swing is dead; long live the King of Swing. Burly young Artie Shaw has snapped his clarinet across his knee and says he'll play no more.

He

sick.

says terbugs make him

So, the new King of Swing is an equally · burly, spectacled twenty- nine-year-old town named Gleni Miller. His fans call him Killer- Diller Miller.

Mr. Miller takes the crown from Mr. Shaw by playing the trombone to please the multitude more than even the great Tommy Dorsey. To use the swing slang-Hts allp horn aends then.

NOW why should Mr. Shaw give up?

He was earning an easy £10,000 a year, and the college kids ganged up night after night to listen to him play. When they took the dance Roor, they stood, locked in an endless embrace, and swayed on the balls of their young feel while the Shaw clarinet soured and brake.

Mr. Shaw gave up becausa Mir. Shaw is smart. Ho knew he was on top. a man's on top, there's only one way he can move. Mr. Shaw saw the reports coming in. The hot bands were gradually los- ing favour, all over Amerlen, to the. sweet bands.

Mr. Show got going, not because he hates jitterbugs, but before the Jitterbugs who made him king grew up,

He Is now in Hollywood, having a · honeymoon-with--Lena Turner, 'who' danced so prettily for him in Every Other Inch a Lady." He is also planning to make a film of his lito. And to return to the Gimaestro's stand with a now sweet

Do not believe the tale the

milkman tella;

No troops have mutinied at Potters Bar. Nor are there submarines at

Tunbridge Wells.

The B.B.C. will warn us when there are.

Do not believe the Major's

cusy plan.

He wants to land a force

at Budapest.

He known the Danube well, the dear old man,

But maybe General Iron- side knows best.

Do not believe in Mr. Told-

you-80.

Do not repeat the "Might-

have-beens"

"Buts."

:

and

Now is the time to let youY

neighbour know

We have the gold, the ginger, and the guts.

Do not believe that God has

been cast down, Because the Berlin beast is breathing still. This is the one truc story

in the town-

We can defeat the devil,

. and wa will.

A. P. HERBERT.

band composed purely of strings and woodwind.

to

Glenn Miller's: method is switch without Interval. He made his reputation with the swing 'con- noisseurs by the super-sophistica- tion of his playing.

Then suddenly he switched his. tone His playing of "Eightcenu Century Drawing Room" and "Moonlight Serenade", were sweet, so simple, the great Amerl- can publle took Mr. Miller and his trombone to their capacious hearts.

Postscript: He really does ploy well. Try his two serenades, "Sun- riso" and "Moonlight on H.M.V."

37. Control grip with press-bution styltch to itre the eight ma- chine-guns, and brake lever for landing wheels.

38. Main release lever for wing

flags,

39. Handle for auxiliary pump to lower landing wheels in emer- gency i normal hydraulic mechanism is damaged.

40. Release for forced landing

slures on wing tips.

41. The parachute, tightly packed, which acts as a cushion on the pilot's seat.

42. Parachute harness.

43. Lever to raise or lower seat.

And when the pilot is sure all these are O.K., he can get on with lighting the enemy.

One-Minute Sermon

By Hugh Redwood

Abundantly

ISAIAH, 55. 7. (OMEWHERE I read a story of man who went bankrupt through trying to smash a trade rival. The latter not only forgave him but helped to set him up fr business again.

That is how God forgives and that is why the action was justly described as Christ-like. God not only cancels the wrong: He be- stown power to do right.

For the quality of Divine for- giveness see. Maithew 18. 23-27; Like 15. 7. 10, 21-23. But see also Luke 17.. 3-4, and remember (Matthew 6. 12) that God expects and commands us to slow the same abundant forgiveness to others,

Thought- reading with-

out tears

VOU frst "fix" things with

You

your accomplice. You then tell your friends to choose any number between one and ten-e and go out of the room while come back. they choose. You place your two hands

upon the temples of the nearest person→→→ you gaze into her eyes you say nothing and you pass to the next person and 10 on right round the room. Then with start you come out of your trance and announce that the number Is alx-or four-or. whalever it is. And every one says, "Well done, old chap how did you know?" Well, how did you? See Below.

a

SOLUTION: * THOUGHT - READING Your: necomplico,knows the number bee causa fie was in the Toons when they chore ft. So tchen: you place your hands on hla; temples, he makes the intacles there move to the requisite Number, Jia Libga 15 Di Kouping nu teath tightly" tdoocher' and clenchtig thenone, two, three,Try it.

Telegraph Short Story: Reading Time: 7 Minutes

PERHAPS because the re-

port from the laboratory was due the next day she was more wakeful than usual. Latterly she'd been sleeping too much like a top; which might be one of the sinister symptoms. As she sat up sleepily in bed she saw Dave, half-dressed, on the other side of the room.

"What's the matter, Dave dear?" "Hungry." He didn't look up. Her wrist watch said it was one o'clock. "You don't have to put on all your clothes to go to the icebox."

side.

Wha

"I thought I'd take a turn out- I couldn't sleep." 11s voice he must have edgy and realised it, for he came over to the bed and kissed her.

"Dave, are you nervous and restless?

"I'm nervous and restless."

It was a problem that couldn't be dodged any longer. "Probably it's time we were off, Dave. May- be we've been here too long."

Sure,

long."

We

we've been here too

couldn't stay forever." She tried to keep the funeral touch out of her voler. "We knew that when we came here. I'll be glad to go." If Joan of Arc ever said anything more herole than these last five words, it never go! into the histories; but she hoped he wasn't reading her thoughts.

"Time to move on," he said looking at the floor. "Tomorrow 'get a For Rent sign

painted. That's only fair to the fellow who this bungalow. I chopped up his the day we moved in here. Well, on to Bojador."

owns

"On to Bojador." she cchord.

He clumped out of the room and moment later she heard the ouier door. close softly.

tl

she was once more sound asleep.

Dave was her kind. She had known that at first glimpse when she had seen him in the cafeterin line-up. He had friendly eyes, a shock of dark curly hale, a daun easy smile that seemed to come of its own accord. His hands were strong but finely moulded.

"Do you like Milwaukee in February?" he had asked, after her maneuver had placed them at the same table. "Not that I care: I'm from Delphos, Ohio. Looking over the hired hands?"

"Oh, no, I'm demonstrating a new kind of salad dressing, down in Groceries. You own the store, don't you?"

"Gave it away Monday, Now I'm doing show cards. All for art that's my molto. That is, all for art so long as I don't have to stay

long in one place."

too

"Move on and be happy. Me

too.

"When I get nervous and restless

I pack the old sultense. I've done It for four years. Right now I'm making

for Cellfornia. You headed anywhere in particular?"

"Oh, stie said with cluberate

"Just Bojador."

Bojador" "Don't you know? Africa," Which was neat climax for the end of a lunch period.

That night in a little German restaurant off Grand Avenue he asked her again, "If you're not

Undy Bojador?"

Whit gave me the idea." "Well, let's have the details, if you think I'm old enough to know." "First"she demonstrated with the menu-"you open an alias and pick out a name.'

What sort of a

"Any

that

дате?"

name at all. Any nume appeals to you. Then

pack up and get under way. Only you mustn't aim at the place too directly."

"Why not?"

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SHE parted the window cur- tains, patterned with rocking horses and camels, and breath- ed deeply the perfume of the in her garden below the

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the little tree sel up a

whispering, while fainter came the murmur of the river as it flowed over pebbly shallows. In

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Now from the living room came MacPhairson Clonglocketly Angus M/Clan

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"Because that would spoil every- thing. You've got to zig and you've Rot to zag. Time mustn't count. Then one day you'll find yourself there."

"After two years I'm eight hun- dred miles farther from Bojador than when I started. But I've loved every hour of it.".

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