14 JANUARY 1966, Page 3

FIRE DESTROYED the town ball at Hove, in Sussex, and

there was also a blaze at the Wig and Pen Club—the only building in the Strand to survive the Great Fire of London. Traditionalists who de- plored the age of automation winced when they read that a computor used by Bass Ltd., erred to the extent that bitter and pale ale worth £250,000 had been literally poured down the drain. Ex- ports reached a new record, Giacometti died, and Tony's gear was evidently the tops in the world of fashion, as the Fashion Foundation of America named I.ord Snowdon the world's best-dressed man (International Society division).