24 DECEMBER 1954, page 6

An Unscrupulous Friend Of Mine Has Evolved An Interesti...

for crossing the Atlantic at a profit. You book a fir; class passage on one of the more expensive liners; you buy, on night when the bidding is high, the low field in the sweep......

Whose Birthday ?

I quote from the notebook of a Martian anthropologist who, an interplanetary contretemps having obliterated all traces of the human race except the Christmas cards in our......

A Christian Society

F OR sOine s years the great Christian festivals have been occasions for public meditation in this country on the extent to which we are still a Christian community. If It is to......

A Spectator's Notebook

HE Russians, whose object is to avert the ratification of the Paris agreements. on German rearmament, have followed up their threat to denounce the Franco-Soviet Treaty of 1945......

Love From A Stranger

Less florid than the reproduction of a convivial oil-painti which your wine-meirchant sent you, less tasteful than t,, 11 , woodcut which you received from your book-seller,......

A Child At The Theatre When 1 Was A Child

I never niinded much about the Principa l Boy being a lady dressed up as a man, though it struck me, as rather silly and 1 resented the inordinate amount of time which she and......

I Learnt For The First Time This Week That The

Spectator has an American namesake. It started life in Chicago in 1879 as Judy's, changed its name to Will Judy's Quarterly Spectator in 1950, and became the Spectator,......