Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1942, Page 75

DRAWING BY JOHN ATHERTON Many centuries ago, there came to the throne of a small kingdom a shrewd and warlike genius. His name is preserved in history books to this day. He found his country happily poor, and drove his subjects into the mines and fields and factories to make it unhappily rich. He took its gold and iron and grain and turned it into the mightiest army of that age. He turned that army on his neighbors, and made them into slaves. He plun- dered the wealth of all that fell before him. He spread his power from sea to sea. And then one day, he failed to rise from his bed. From far and near came the greatest healers to tend him. In every corner of his empire, the popu- lace was ordered to the temples and altars to pray for their King. But still he languished. He was wasting away. The wise men were puzzled. The end was not far off. Around the royal death- bed stood a host of servants. “Is there anything Your Highness needs?” they asked. ““Yes,”” whispered the King. . . ‘‘A friend.” Page THE LONELY BEING ..o oo oicviinncsaresisnessesiissosonshoiisssis [ COMPLETE BuST..................ee by JOSEPHINE BENTHAM 4 FAREWELL IN POLAND................ by WILLIAM L. SHRER 7 He FOOLED HITLER. .................... by HENRY C. WOLFE & FIREMAN CLOWN..........c.ovvvennennnn by JO CHAMBERLIN 10 FAMILY ALBUM. .......ccovvvnniieiiiniennnnnn, by LISLE BELL 12 SALOR, 1942 ......c00ivuovionesneoisss by ARTHUR BARTLETT 13 CAVGHT N THE ACT . ..oioiinssonssiosssisnsissssbassisssnes 14 WALLY'S WAGON........cocvveeernnenn. by WALLY BOREN 15 A WARBRIDE ASKS —.........cconvnvennn..s by EMILY POST 16 Copyright, 1942, United Newspapers Magazine Corporation THIS WEEK MAGAZINE Page MEET RISE STEVENS. ........ccvvnnnnnnnn.. by JERRY MASON 17 WATCH THAT THROATLINE............... by SYLVIA BLYTHE 18 MONKEY BUSINESS. ..........ccennnnnnnn by R. W. DAWSON 19 SIGNAL IN THE NIGHT...... s....by SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT g0 FOOD FOR THE GENERAL ................. by GRACE TURNER 22 QuEer Ducks, AREN'T WE?...... by KATHLEEN MASTERSON 93 Cover by Rudy Arnold The nomes and descriptions of all characters that appear in short stories, serials and semi-fiction articles in THIS WEEK MAG AZINE are wholly fictitious. Any use of o name which happens to be the same os that of any person, living or dead, is entirely coincidental, Page Two SIDELINES DEFENSE. A man we know has found a new way to greet friends on holidays and other festive occasions. We think the idea should be passed on to every American: Instead of sending form greeting cards, he mails a Defense Savings Stamp book, with the first 10c stamp already pasted in. He tried out his idea first with Christmas and New Year's cards. It worked so well that he's carried it over to all occasions. He calculates that for each $10 he in- vests in Defense cards, he can start 100 people on the way to buying a Defense Bond. His $10 investment can thus sell $1,875 worth of bonds. He calls his idea “killing three birds — Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito — with one stamp.” PROGRESS. Despite the state of the world, science keeps right on marching ahead. One of the newer important dis- coveries has come out of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology: outdoor air conditioning. M.L.T. scientists now report that they can disperse fog. Greatest beneficiaries are aviators. By spraying large quantities of calcium chlor- ide through the fog, a mile-long path, 100 feet high and 100 feet wide, can be cleared. All the pilot has to do then is steer his way through the corridor. Cost of keeping such a path clear is about $5 a minute. HABIT. Friends call Bill Shirer one of the shyest newspapermen in the profession. His wife Tess — once a Viennese news- paperwoman — is even more self-effacing. She read the manuscript of her husband’s famed ‘“‘Berlin Diary” and painstakingly tried to cut every reference to herself. Shirer; See Page 7 But her chief problem these days — aside from raising two little daughters — is trying to break Bill of the wartime habits he picked up in Berlin. Greatest offender among them shows up every Sun- day evening when Shirer goes on the air with his weekly comment program. Tess, watching him in the New York studio, notices that he keeps patting his left shoulder with his right hand. She couldn’t figure out what prompted it until Bill himself dug down into his sub- conscious and supplied the explanation: the habit began during the first days of war in Berlin when the correspondent was merely trying to make sure that his gas mask was where it should be in case he needed it. M. TW~—1-25-43