I learnt for the first time this week that the
Spectator has an American namesake. It started life in Chicago in 1879 as Judy's, changed its name to Will Judy's Quarterly Spectator in 1950, and became the Spectator, published monthly and printed in two colors thruout,' in 1952. It is edited and, at a guess, almost entirely written by Mr. Wyman Port, who contributes to the December issue some interesting reminiscences of a visit to the British Isles. When staying at the Hotel Dorchester with his Titian-tressed wife he invariably ordered for breakfast a Can of gooseberries; ' They , are much larger than their American cousins, but just as tart, as hairy. We devoured them and their long stems greedily.' A vivid impression was also made upon his mind by ' the war memorial in Balmoral Castle high on the hill-top at Edinburgh, Scotland' The American Spectator seems to be a good deal breezier than the London one, and although the two periodicals may be sisters under the skin I have perhaps said enough (or, as Mr. Port would put it, enuf ') to indicate that there is no very obvious affinity between them.
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