28 JUNE 1963, page 7

Unwitting Rivals

In the preface to Buller's Cain paign, which was published a few days ago and is very well worth reading, Mr. Julian Symons mentions that he did 'a good deal of research, over a......

Begorrahl

M y spy in Dunganstown, Co. Wexford, whence President Kennedy's great-grandfather emigrated in 1848, reports that press and tele- vision operatives (by this time reinforced by a......

Part-timers

By A. PHILLIPS GRIFFITHS* W HAT help can be given to the thousands who, though qualified, are excluded from the universities? Two recent articles in the Spectator concerned with......

A Spectator's Notebook

S CARCELY credible though this admission will sound to my friends, I have never been to Murray's Cabaret Club, and am not therefore well qualified to question Miss Keeler's......

Not With It

Front-page headlines become steadily larger, more eye-catching, more obtrusive, but I find that for practical purposes one hardly notices them, any more than one notices the......

The Lane-hogs

Sir Alan Wilson's committee on noise pro- duces its report next week. I doubt if it is likely to have had under review the case of the farmer who the other day was fairly......

Making The Best Of It

The preceding paragraph reminds me, rather inconsequently, of the preface to P. G. Wode- house's Summer Lightning, He was particularly pleased with his choice of title and......

Fed Up

1 have long made it my practice, when a new James Bond book appears, to forward to the author a list of corrigenda compiled by Dr. Knittpik, the well-known savant and man-about-......