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Portrait Of 'failure

No Love for Johnnie. By Wilfred Fienhurgh. (Hutchinson, I5s.) • Ar the Labour Party Conference in Brighton last year, I was coming down the stair's after the morning session, in......

Sick?

NORMAN LEVINE'S account of a return journey to his native Canada in 1956 makes Miller's Air- Conditioned Nightmare read like an USIS hand- out. The author sails across the......

Kinds Of Contraband

The Tortoises. By Loys Masson. Translated by . 16s.) Fee • Fi Fo Fun: - A Book of Fairy Stories. By Osbert Sitwell. (Macmillan. 15s.) The Losers. By Clifford Irving. (Heinemann,......