The Sudden Death Of Professor Malinowski At Yale Is A
great loss to anthropology in general and to the London School of Economics, where he held the Chair in that subject. His book on the Trobrian islanders is, I suppose, his......
The Requisitioning Of Tyres From Laid-up Cars Is A More
dra step than it sounds. Many people have .taken to small cars in interests of economy and laid up larger ones. They are ex hypol all of them people who legitimately need cars,......
The Union Of Post Office Workers Is Disturbed At The
nature of conversations indulged in by users of the shilling (actually Is. 2d.) evening trunk telephone calls, of which various speak themselves telephone-operators, give......
One Might Suppose That A British Citizen Wanting To Enter
a En Dominion could merely say, like Palmerston's Don Pacifico, " C Britannicus sum," produce evidence to that effect and be app priately welcomed. By no means, apparently ;......
Congress Danced And Shanghai, I See, Still Races. My...
is derived from Horse and Hound, which quotes a Reuter message dated April 17th to the effect that "Race-meetings are still being held on the famous racecourse in the centre of......
Translation Is A Difficult Art, And Some Foreign Words, It
is as to recognise, refuse to stand an alien environment at all. I been reading Philip Barres' book on General de Gaulle, of u both French and English editions have been......
S.p.c. E.
I, "Janus," I am desolated to say, must—or at any rate ought t wear a double damn on my chest for a week for the phi ace ( 1 week) "one of few Englishmen who really knows and......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE Prime Minister's stock goes up and down curiously. At the moment it is undoubtedly down. There are no striking military achievements to foster faith in his leadership, and......
Fuel And The Mines
HE fuel-rationing controversy has died down to a strange quiescence. No one quite knows how things stand. The eridge scheme has been withdrawn for reconditioning or cement—the......
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