21 MAY 1965, page 22

In The Bin

ONE of the funniest scenes in fiction is that in Ilf and Petrov's Golden Calf (1931), set in a Soviet lunatic asylum. The inmates are all sane. But then 'a loony-bin,' as one of......

Through His Bonnet

A FRIEND of Georges Bonnet is reported as saying that the latter 'suffers from a well-nigh physical incapacity to tell the truth to the end'—one of the kinder remarks made of......