The Enrichment Of The Museum At Zermatt With Relics Of
Edward Whymper, greatest of British Alpinists, recalls, in a year in which fatal climbing accidents have been unusually numerous, one of the worst of all Alpine tragedies. The......
All This Devaluation Business, Of Course, Is Thoroughly...
the uninitiated. For that reason I feel intensely grateful to any newspaper that makes things really easy. It is to the Financial Times, to which I naturally turned first on......
Devaluation Is Not Enough
F OR countries which have run into difficulty in the conduct of their international trade and finance, as for businesses which find themselves in a similar case, there comes a......
Fifty-seven Years Ago A Double Murder In A Massachusetts...
inspired a local poet to an elegiac quatrain which, while perhaps falling short in some respects of the highest flights of Lyadas or Adonais, has undeniable qualities, as the......
A Request For A Definition Of " Don " (in
the university sense) cannot be denied. The Oxford English Dictionary (very largest size) says "a head, fellow or tutor of a college," tracing the usage back cc i66o, with the......
With The Cheapness Of Sterling Against The Dollar...
bring American tourists to this country next year in unprecedented numbers, the state of the hotel industry becomes a question of national importance. If that is recognised, as......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HE secret of devaluation was well kept—or was it, when so many people had been saying it would happen and happen on September 18th ? Whether that was leak- age or an......
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