22 JULY 1955, page 11

Chataway Agonistes

BY G. M. CARSTAIRS T HE sport of athletics owes not only its name but many of its conventions to ancient Greece. The men's foot-race, the nucleus of the Olympia, was an .annual......

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN I WAS walking down Newgate Street with a girl in the hot weather of last week. She remarked on how unattractive men were. Looking at their clothes, I realised......