Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, December 1956 — page 139: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SIX AND TWO MAKE NINE .* _ “SL Bees eS aad taf as A tee Sn 2 gots . cover. It was a fine book, with a handgome leather covey and the inscriptiom Diary 4754. He read the netation on the first page writ- ten‘in a neat feminine hand: “To our beloved son, Lt. Harry Crane, H.M.S*}. He read the first entry ... March 3 After spending six weeks in Sick bay due to injuries th@ ship’s sur- geon considered serious, | am in- formed by that able,mah that I may return to full duty andg that far etd 137 COMMICLOOOKS.CGOnn