27 NOVEMBER 1953, page 7

Chits

The practice of autobiography seems to be on the increase. Lord Reith, Mr. Gilbert Harding, Lord Pakenham, Miss Florence Desmond, Lord Norwich, Lord Grantley, Mr. David Garnett,......

A Spectator's Notebook

I 4 AM not," writes Sir Percy Sillitoe in his memoirs, extracts from which are appearing in a Sunday newspaper, "at liberty to discuss in any detail the work of MI5." That seems......

The Big Truth

A NGLO-AMERICAN relations are getting into a danger- ous state, from which they can only be extracted by hard, clear thinking on both sides of the Atlantic. The worst dangers......

A Voice In The Night

At 2.30 the other morning the telephone rang in a London flat occupied by two friends of mine, Mr. and Mrs. D. The lady lifted the receiver and a man's voice said he was a GPO......

A Ball Of Fire

" No Marstock, he " would, if only the American people were as well acquainted as they ought to be with Sir Harold Nicolson's Some People, make a good caption for Time Magazine......

As The Saying Was

The kale was up to the beaters' chins, and when they emerged from it after a rather blank drive the keeper observed morosely : " You can't beat the old saying, ' a good , year......