31 JANUARY 1958, page 11

Consuming Interest

The End of the Receipt By LESLIE ADRIAN T ODAY, when one buys goods over the counter in Marks and Spencer, no receipt is given— unless you ask for one. Yet I have found this......

Forty Winter Afternoons

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