18 JANUARY 1975, page 7

A Spectator's Notebook

In the great days of daily newspaper production there were few men in the street who would not have recognised the Harmsworth brothers or the first Berrys or Lord Beaverbrook or......

Sir Fred Moves On Sir Fred Catherwood, Disappointed Not To

have got the National Enterprise Board, has launched what he calls a "top people's think tank" called Professional Forum — PROF for s hort. Sir Fred does not stay in a job for......

Paper Economies

Lord Listowel has been telling members of the House of Lords to economise with official e mbossed writing paper, saying that the quality may have to be reduced. I should have......

Advertising Children

Woman's Realm, the weekly magazine, is being used this week by the independent Adoption Society of Peckham, formerly the Agnostic Adoption Society, to 'advertise' children in......

Lobby Lyrics -40

Fred Thoroughgood, MP, for years Had railed against the House of Peers And none attacked heredity With quite such bitter scorn as he, Or jeered at patronage, but when He said he......

Westminster Corridors

There is a Species of Woman whom I shall distinguish by the name of Salamander. Now a Salamander is a kind of heroine in Chastity, that treads upon Fire and lives in the midst......