30 NOVEMBER 1962, page 8

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By HENRY FAIRLIE 'My dear A. J. B.. 'D—n. D—n. D--n.' TT was with these sharp and characteristic lexpletives that Lady Salisbury consoled Balfour after the huge Conservative......

Sharps And Flats

The London skyline has altered more drastic- ally in the last five years than it did through- out the five decades of Bone's rule in Fleet Street, and the rate of change is......

A Salty Man Passing St. Paul's On Thursday Of Last

week, I thought of James Bone. Nowhere in London is there such a magnificent mass of Portland stone, and no one has celebrated this chalky, fossily, magical material more......

Gli Italiani In Scozia Charles Forte's Catering Empire Is...

s° fast that I don't suppose he could hold back Its borders even if he wanted to. The prestige of that numerous Scots-Italian clan of which he is head has long been......

Angus Maude, Never More Impressive Than In

his defeat, although he had every excuse f°, r , feeling like blue murder, blames the Beaverbr o°k ' press in part for the Tories' loss of South Dorset Ian Gilmour, who was not......

Spectator's Notebook

W HAT was the Observer up to on Sunday when it attacked the International Com- mission of Jurists for its scarifying report on police methods in Cuba? Torture, faking of evi-......