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Luce Living

GEORGE HUTCHINSON At four, Henry Robinson Luce, child of American missionaries in China, was com- posing sermons. This infant aptitude was a pointer to what lay ahead. He became......

Music Music Music Arts John Wells

John Osborne has always been perfectly clear about his attitude to critics: they are irrelevant, sickly parasites, and, as he puts it, the absolute dregs. And he has now reached......

Shorter Notices

Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches : The North and The South edited and intro- duced by John Betjeman (Collins, two volumes, 30s each). This incomparable guide first ap-......