14 NOVEMBER 1947, page 5

A Spectator 's Notebook T Housands Of Old Lags Will Be

mourning Alec—Sir Alexander —Paterson, for of all the Prison Commissioners of the last twenty-five years—a singularly humane and sympathetic body of men —he was the most......

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I wonder which of our feathered friends it was that they served to me as Roast Duckling last night. During its life, which was by no means as short as the menu suggested, what......

Budget With Blinkers

T HOSE whose only hope concerning the Budget was that it would have the smallest possible effect on their own personal finances have not been disappointed. Very few individual......

The Appearance Of The First Number Of The Cambridge Journal

is extremely welcome. The new monthly (which costs 3s. a number or 303. a year, and is obtainable from Bowes and Bowes, Cambridge) does exactly what I have for years felt ought......

Typographers, I Should Have Thought, Are Not Really The Best

people to evolve a twenty-seventh letter for the alphabet, which is what a competition now current in Alphabet and Image is encour- aging them to do. This letter " must......

The, Minister Of Education Is Biding His Time, As He

necessarily must, over a revision of the Burnham Scale on the lines recently recommended by the Burnham Committee. The proposals have not yet been (or if so have only just been)......