27 SEPTEMBER 1963, page 30

Afterthought

By ALAN BRIEN When Carl Reiner interviews Mel Brooks on the American comic record, The Two Thousand Year Old Man, and asks the ancient survivor what was the principal means of......

The Lonely Ones

By ELIZABETH GUNDREY LONELINESS seems to be re- placing poverty as society's disease. Its grip is not con- fined to any one class or age-group. `Everyone experi- ences it,' Eva......