14 FEBRUARY 1969, page 11

Use Of Literacy

TELEVISION STUART HOOD To switch on Monday evening from Hancock on BBC 1 to Eleanor Bron and John Fortune on BBC 2. was to measure the spectrum of BBC comedy—from East Cheam, as......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 13 February 1869—Mr. Jus- tice Wines gave judgment on Friday week in the case of the election petition against Mr. J. L. Phipps, Member for Westbury. The......

Love Tokens

CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN Thanks to the untiring enterprise of greetings- card manufacturers, the English-speaking peoples no longer have any need to write per- sonal......