13 OCTOBER 1967, page 7

King George's Surgeon

TABLE TALK DENIS BROGAN The death of Sir James Learmonth, the great surgeon who saved the life, or at least the leg, of King George VI, evokes memories in me. Quite naturally,......

Clement Attlee

IN MEMORIAM CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Many have written of Lord •Attlee's politi- cal career. It was his extraordinary personal character by which I confess that I was endlessly......

Open To Question

TELEVISION STUART HOOD As a subject for letters to the editor tele- vision interviewing has come to join such other seasonal favourites as the first cuckoo, vortices in baths......