6 MARCH 1953, page 5

Having Been Invited Last Week To See An Example Of

com- mercial television, I feel a little more competent to pronounce for or against that projected innovation. In America, of course, it is no innovation at all. What I saw,......

Finals, Of Course." Observed Master Jones. Janvs.

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In A Paragraph Last Week Advocating The Inclusion Of Some

lay element in the projected Press Council I inferred that there was no such lay element in the General Medical Council (which, by a slip which no one seems to have noticed, I......

After Stalin

I T is said that Talleyrand, being told that the Czar Alexander would not be attending an impending international con- ference because he was dead, remarked " I wonder what the......

A Spectator's Notebook

I T is universally agreed that the Crown should be kept out of politics. How much should it be kept out of commerce ? The question is prompted by a communication handed to, but......

Since I Referred A Fortnight Ago To A Man Who

was falsely identified as a participant in the hold-up at the ' Prospect of Whitby' public House at Wapping, and spent 20 days in custody in consequence. I have been re-reading......

The Decision Of The Labour Party To Start A Weekly

paper is very interesting. Its nature has not been announced, and, I imagine, not yet decided. It is hardly likely to be on the lines of what are known as the weekly reviews;......

When It Was Announced At The Beginning Of The 9

o'clock news last Saturday evening that the news bulletin would be followed by a party political broadcast, groans no doubt went up from a million homes where Saturday Night......