26 SEPTEMBER 1958, page 7

Torquay Commentary-2

Bald-Heads and Curly Tops W HAT we've got to do; said Distinguished Delegate Number One, 'is to get rid of that whist-drive lot on the platform.' Don't be too hard on them,'......

I Thought It Unwise Of Mr. John Davis, Rank Organisation's

managing director, to castigate his starlets as lazy and uncooperative; for if anybody is to blame for the silly starlet system it is surely the Rank Organisation itself. The......

The Observer's Other Reason For Approving Of The...

'it was important also to let coloured people see that in this country the law had no bias against them and may be relied upon to protect them as far as it can,' seems to me to......

A Spectator's Notebook

I CANNOT HELP thinking that the Observer will regret its defence last week of the heavy sentences passed on the nine youths who went 'nigger-hunting.' While admitting that 'four......

Either You Are For Cats Or You Are Against Them.

Cassandra, the Daily Mirror's hard (and often) bitten columnist, is for them. Cassandra, in fact, is not quite sane on the subject of cats, like all true cat-worshippers. He has......

I Would Like To Apologise To Both The Daily Express

and Mr. Dermot Morrah for what wrote last week. I was misled by the obvious chagrin of the Express at having missed the Townsend biography into believing that its......

Two Years Ago The Spectator Described The Opera- Tion Of

commercial television as 'a monument to fraud.' Examining the programmes in the week of its third birthday, I see nothing to alter that opinion. Indeed, the position is now even......