10 DECEMBER 1954, page 24

A Wily Mouse

From time to time I have been asked advice on all sorts of matters, and a week two ago I sent some ideas to a friend asked me how to catch a wily mouse. Wrote : ' It came in......

Television And Radio

We have been fortunate enough to see, in one week, three major personalities in operation. Amateur, semi-amateur and pro, Lord Ismay, Sir Thomas Beecham and Gilbert Harding; as......

Country Life Ti Th Third South-westerly Gale In Less Than

week raged through the night and did a gr deal of damage to trees by all reports, for t shallow-rooted fir, the treacherously unsou elm or the easily shattered poplar falls to......

Quotation And Riposte

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No, 249 Report by Bernard Fergusson On the pattern of Pope's couplet on Newton and J. C. Squire's rejoinder on Einstein, competitors were asked to provide......

A Prize Of £5 Is Offered For An Alphabetical Telegram

(i.e. of 26 words, the first beginning with A, the second with B, and so on) suitable for sending at the New Year to any one of the following: The Archbishop of Canterbury, The......

The Spraying Month In The Orchard As Well As The

soft tr" ij garden December is the month for spraY, Il i o tar oil. Apples should be done towards 'd end of the month but before they are spraYd such trees and bushes as plum,......

Cinema

Make Me An Offer. (Empire) Make Me An Offer takes us to the heart of the antique-dealing business, a heart which Wolf Mankowitz has dissected into two equal portions, those of......