It was “the coldest week for years” when the magazine hit the shelves. And while our cover – with glamorousdubbed a “national crisis”. Luckily, our reporters shared stories of local community spirit, with good neighbours welcoming others to use their indoor stoves or sharing backyard firewood. While reading may have had to be done by candlelight, there were some cracking short stories to entertain. “Charlie Conger was a man who had worked himself up from the bottom to the top in his profession,” begins by Philip Ambrose, alongside an illustration of a thief scaling a building “which was a very appropriate thing for him to have done because he was a cat-burglar”. Film buffs were equally well-catered for, with first-look pictures of Ingrid Bergman in Meanwhile, ads for cold and flu remedies abounded in these pages, along with easy-to-prepare budget recipes (with minimal cook time required).
