20 JULY 1962, page 6

Messrs. Davies Mr. Ivor R. M. Davies, Who Is The

prospective Liberal candidate for Oxford City, has asked me to make sure that I get the first name right of Mr. Ifor Davies, the Labour Member for Gower, if I've any further......

Roundheads And Middlebrows Before I'm Accused Of Begging...

que's - Lions I should declare my own interests, which can most simply be described as highbrow 0 0 the one hand and lowbrow on the other. The areas which seem to me unhealthy......

Up And Down There's A Point Which Hasn't Been 'brought

out as clearly as I had expected in the post-Pilkington argumentation. Everyone seems to be agreed that the introduction of commercial competition THE SPECTATOR, JULY 20. 1 962......

Ugly Muds, Haw Once In A Very Long Way, Of

course, there's a mighty detonation like Dr. Leavis's Richmond Lecture, but literary controversy is on the whole a tame business in the south these days; and metropolitan......

To Be A Negro

From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK H ARLEM, with due consideration for Prime Minister Nkrumah's pretensions, remains the most famous Negro community on earth. Like Mississippi, it is......

Spectator's Notebook

I vE no doubt the Prime Minister found him- self pressed for time at the end of last week, but it's still a great pity that he didn't make the effort and get all the face-saving......

No Prize Tom Moore Was On The Whole A Little

rough 00 the Duke of Wellington when he wrote: Great Captain, who takest such pains To prove--what is granted—liem. COn. With how moderate a portion of brains Some heroes......