21 AUGUST 1953, page 6

A Spectator 's Notebook

R ED Indian Chief Howard Skye of the Ohsweken Reserve . in Canada has sent up a plaindve smoke signal about the motion picture industry's propensity for producing films in which......

Road Sense The Ordinary Motorist Will Not Be At All

troubled by the accusations of profligacy levelled at the A.A. As far as he is concerned, Lord Teynham, his committee members and officials can bathe nightly in champagne if......

Wozniak On Sea I Shall Not Accompany Mr. Alexsandra Wozniak,

a Nottingham engineer, when he attempts to walk across the Channel on water skis. I once placed my feet in two boat- like structures which were supposed to carry me safely over......

Ins And Outs This Week England Has Expected Not Only

every man but every woman to do their duty—which was to know the score. GLAUX......

The Great Debate

T HE differences between British and American policy for the Far East have found strange, metaphorical expression in New York. Should the Korean political conference be round or......

Requisites A Good Ninety Per Cent. .of The Houses In

the square in which I live were requisitioned after the war for the use of bombed-out families. Although internally they may, for all I know, be in perfect trim, their exteriors......

Machine Art To Those Of Us Who Type With Two

fingers and a thumb the news of Senorita Montserrat Escarvidol's prodigious feats on her machine is a further humiliation. A typist in the Barcelona police department, she......

On The Wing In Devonshire Birds Coated With Tanker Oil

are being lifted tenderly from the sea, laboriously washed feather by feather, given a coat' of lard and some lunch, then taken by road to purer waters. In Scotland birds are......