17 MARCH 1950, page 5

Last Week Sir William Beach Thomas, Writing In These...

attributed the decline of the urban sparrow population partly to the rarity of urban horses. Any sentimental nostalgia occasioned by his remarks will have been decisively......

A Spectator's Notebook

0 N at least one of the rare, regrettable occasions in the past when I have acted as locum tenens for Janus I have written something about health and there seems no need to......

Chancellor Canute

1 44 BELIEVE," said Sir Stafford Cripps, " it is necessary to call a halt to further development of this service." He was speaking, of course, of the National Health Service, in......

But The Details (except The Size Of The Bonus, Which

would have to be carefully worked out and could be varied in the light of experience) don't really matter. What is important is to recognise the principle that good health ought......

The International Theatre Institute (honorary President,...

president, Llewellyn Rees) is presumably something to do with Unesco, from whose Paris headquarters it sends me, un- bidden, its monthly bulletin called World Premieres,......

For A Question To Attain Immortality And The Answer To

it to be altogether forgotten must be a rare combination of circumstances. We all know that Stanley asked : " Dr. Livingstone, I presume ? " How many of us can quote Dr.......