16 NOVEMBER 1951, page 7

"advertiser Would Caretake Piano."—manchester Guardian.

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It Is Very Nice To Be Able To Mix Utile

dulcl. But very often they simply won't mix. The London County Council wants to put up high blocks of flats as a solution to the housing problem- utile. But it wants to put them......

* * * * There Are, According To An Official

Ministry of Transport report. 27,000 level crossings on the railways of Great Britain, and they are (I suppose with the growth of motor traffic) becoming an Increasing danger.......

A Story That Reaches Me From Washington Provides One Reason

for the intensity of enthusiasm Princess Elizabeth aroused during her short visit to that city. At the reception at the British Embassy, among the two thousand guests with whom......

The Psychology Of Dockers Is Something By Itself. Workers In

no other industry display quite the same characteristics. In the Royal Victoria Dock in London, it appears, a new grain elevator, costing £150,000, is standing idle because the......

The First Number Of Canal Zone News Has Reached My

desk. It is what its name implies—a sheet published in the Suez Canal Zone for all the forces there, designed to give them an accurate summary of home and foreign—and......

Mr. Jimmy Edwards, "the Comedian," I Read, Has Been Elected

Rector of Aberdeen University, in succession to Lord Tweeds- rnuir and with 60 votes more than Lord Lovat. Why. I wonder, do the undergraduates do this ? Comedians render great......

Britain And Peace

T the United Nations Assembly in Paris on Monday, Mr. Eden provided an instructive illustration of a warmonger in action. Strangely, and no doubt temporarily, oblivious of that......

The Death Of Almost Any Paper (there Are Just One

or two exceptions to justify the "almost ") is matter for regret. In the absence of some improbable eleventh-hour rescue-scheme The Guardian will publish its final issue on the......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Government Has Reason To Be...

satisfied with its majority of 38 in the first division of the new Parlia- ment on Monday (followed the next day by one of 37), particularly since one or two of its supporters,......