21 MARCH 1969, page 8

A Hundred Years Ago From The 'spectator.' 20 March 1869—the

Uni- versity boat race ended, as usual, in the victory of Oxford, and London was quite melancholy, fearing that Cambridge would give up the contest, or would insist on......

Not A Crime But A Blunder

PERSONAL COLUMN NIGEL NICOLSON Twenty-five years ago the huge monastery of Monte Cassino was destroyed by Allied bombers. My brigade was then in the hills about eight miles......