12 JULY 1963, page 11

Burying The Coffin

By GEOFFREY PARKER T HE great belt of industrial towns which stretches intermittently from the Thames to the Pennine fringes is known to geographers as 'The Coffin,' ostensibly......

Brollied Werewolves

The silly season covers twelve months per year, if you concentrate on school stories. Teen- age girls at a school in Essex have been ordered by the head to wear rain-hats in wet......

No Orgies In Onich I'm Sorry, I Can't Help Returning

to the security business, because I've just remembered some of the other things people were saying in pubs. Philby is fun, in a mild, remote way, and since politics are real (in......

The Hot Seat An Editor's Life Is Terribly Hard. The

Spectator 'recently sent out a questionnaire to discover readers' views of the paper, and one form came back from Europe this week, blank except for the following scribble on......