25 JANUARY 1952, page 4

I Don't Know Whether Manchester Grammar School Sends All Its

bright boys to Cambridge. I make no objection to that if it is so. But the remarkable success of M.G.S. boys this year, as so often before, in the matter of entrance......

On Tuesday Mr. Churchill Received A Medal From The Mayor

of New York sitting up in bed in blue pyjamas. That ought to -soften Dr. Moussadek's heart. -.. A case for a double. bed ? lows......

Should Book-reviews Be Signed Or Anonymous ? An Old And

interesting question, and it is raised afresh in the Fiftieth Anniversary Number of the Times Literary Supplement pre- sented to guests at the very agreeable party given by the......

If The Prime Minister Of Southern Rhodesia Is Serious In

considering it "absurd that someone elected to look after the interests of Shoreditch, for example, should manage the affairs of Central Africa" he should take advantage of his......

The News Chronicle On Wednesday Devoted 39 Square Inches On

its front page to a - photograph of tome feminine person, under the heading "Brainy redhead is toast of Oxford." More newsprint for the news the papers have no room to give ?......

A Spectator's Notebook

A DEPLORABLE amount of nonsense continues to be written about the King's stay at Botha House during his visit to South Africa. The Observer, having suggested that the King of......

" Senator Taft Escaped Injury Today When His Car Turned

round twice on -an icy road near Madison, Wisconsin." Daily Telegraph. But what is a double turn to a Presidential candidate ?......

Sterling Shows Fight

S TATEMENTS following meetings of Commonwealth Ministers area seldom as firm and positive as that which- 1 1Oppeared on Monday, after the talks on the future of the sterling......

Chester Wilmot's Struggle For Europe, Which I Have Found...

abnormally interesting, is, I understand, reviewed else- where in this issue, but that is no reason for not referring here to one singularly significant and pertinent passage.......