15 MAY 1959, page 9

Not That There Is Anything Sacred About 'cream'; A Few

years ago some bumptious official who wanted to stop the manufacturer of a celebrated sherry from using the term, on the grounds that the liquid in the bottle did not contain......

'if One Raises The Question Of Berlin In A Pub,'

Peregrine Worsthorne tells the readers of the American Reporter in an article on 'Britain's lonely road towards the Summit,' almost without exception the reaction would be that......

Do Not Know Why The Court Case Of The Mushroomless

mushroom soup should have attracted so much attention, while the case of the creamless ice-cream, which was being argued the same day in the Commons. attracted no atten- tion at......

Do And Aberdare

By JAMES TUCKER iTIFIEY want to turn the whole place into another bloody Dagenham,' said the old man in the grey homburg and no collar. 'Tree-lined avenues and closes; grass......

Mr. Knox Cunningham Suggests In Our Correspon- Dence...

'it would be hard to imagine the BBC broadcasting, at the time of the killing of a British serviceman's wife in Cyprus, a repeat programme in which one of the speakers praised......

A Couple Of Correspondents Tell Me They Were Puzzled By

my reference to 'paid-up' MAs last week: was there, they ask, some gibe intended? There was. Most MAs are won by examination; at Oxford and Cambridge they are simply pur-......