21 JUNE 1963, page 9

A Spectator's Notebook

I HE Labour Party leaders must have been relieved that attention was firmly fixed on the Prime Minister and his troubles last Monday for in less stirring times their own......

The Green Eye There Was An Article In The Spectator

three weeks ago by Clive Irving on Jocelyn Stevens, the proprietor of Queen, and his plans. This is the subject of an editorial note in last week's World's Press News which......

Hail And Farewell Once Upon A Time One Kenneth Tynan,

after a fizzing career at Oxford, stood in for Peter Fleming as the Spectator's dramatic critic: whereupon fame fell upon him, and in no time at all be was the Observer's......

The Press

Press and Profumo By BRIAN INGLIS vett the Vassall affair, the case against the kJ popular press seemed to be overwhelming: to . join The Times and the Guardian in criticising......

Cool Comfort

I doubt whether it will be much in the way of C omfort to Mr. Macmillan and those of his Co lleagues who had the wool pulled over their e yes, but La Rochefoucauld suggests that......

Old Vicarious

Starbuck, are you grieving over the Old Vic's bereaving? Certainly it was a nostalgic moment, the company giving its final performance last week, but there was really nothing......

The Gap

Timothy was buried on Friday in the church- yard of St. Mary's, Walkern, a village in a quiet hollow of Hertfordshire near the Essex border. The little church was full of people......

La Vie Londonienne

Queequeg, who has been in Paris for a few d ays, writes: 'It would be too much to expect the average Frenchman not to be more than a little mocking over the Profumo case and sc......