20 JULY 1962, page 18

History

Asser Unseated By JOHN GOWER W HO wrote Asset's Life of Alfred?' It was daunting, as one settled down for the final session of the Anglo-American Conference of Historians, to......

Theatre

Half-Cockpit By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Chichester Festival Theatre.— WHETHER by accident or de- sign the Royal Shakespeare Company walked away with the thunder earmarked for......

Cinema

Trainload of Trombones By ISABEL QUIGLEY The Music Man. (Warner.)— THERE'S no doubt where the best fun (and the best every- thing else, come to that) is to be found this week:......