29 FEBRUARY 1952, page 5

The Minister Of Housing And Local Government, It Appears,...

vetoed the sensible proposal that the old Temple Bar be re-erected at the bottom of Middle Temple Lane, on the ground that the nineteenth-century buildings behind it would form......

I Customarily Draw The Attention Of Readers Of This Column

to the latest annual edition of Ashley Courtenay's handbook to British hotels (Let's Halt Awhile, 68 St. James's Street, S.W.1, 8s. 6d.) because of its value to those beginning......

Parliament Adrift

M R. HERBERT MORRISON. has described the Prime Minister's recent visit to Washington as "a doubtful mission by the wrong man at the wrong time." He made this remark in the House......

A Writer In The Newspaper World Mentions That He Has

received from the chief Press and Information Officer of B.E.A. "a most interesting and useful novelty, a slide-rule which gives 45 cocktail recipes almost at a glance." Not......

Sir Hubert Henderson Died As Warden-elect Of All Souls....

last year to fill that high post, he was never well enough to be formally installed; such a happening must be rare at either university. A protégé at Cambridge of Maynard......

To Measure Money Against Life Is Never Quite Easy, But

only the most rigid economists will criticise the Chancellor of the Exchequer for earmarking £1,000,000 for road improve- ments at notorious danger-spots (local authorities......

So Identity Cards Have Gone, And A Certain Gentleman Who

disliked 'them went to the trouble of having himself photo-/ graphed tearing his up. No doubt very impressive. But talk of the cards as badges of servitude or something similar......

A Spectator's Notebook

N ,,- OW that the nation has settled down to the new reign is it too much to hope that something may be done ..,. about the deplorable jingle that passes muster as a National......

Having Retired For A Brief Period To Hospital For A

not very formidable operation for a not very serious disability I have discovered what an astonishing addiction modern medicine has to punctures. I have been pricked in every......