22 MAY 1964, page 11

Tailpiece

What is a Social Event? The question has hovered in my mind this week because of what 1 read in the Sunday Telegraph. This newspaper has a special column entitled 'Social......

L Ost Luggage At Any Given Inoment, So Time Tells Me,

some 2,50 0 pieces of US luggage are somewhere they sh ouldn't be. In America they have a computer to sort things out. All 1 had when I found myself with someone else's suitcase......

Santa Claus

In the first 'Spectator's Notebook' that I con- tributed I drew attention to the claims of Santa Claus, the Irish-trained son of Chamossaire, as a winter favourite for the Derby......

Spectator's Notebook

'We will fight on the beaches . . . we will fight in the streets. ' Twenty-four years on, the louts at the seaside and the hogs on the roads have written a sar- donic footnote......

The Huge Season

Morley Callaghan, who writes this week in our book pages on Hemingway's posthumous, long- awaited volume on Paris in the 1920s, A Moveable Feast, is a survivor of those......

Who's Paralysed Now?

One of the arguments used by .Mr. Harold Wilson against the Prime Minister's decision to hold the election in October was that the last few months of a Government induced a......

Reforming The Cabinet

By LORD MORRISON OF LAMBETH N o - r for the first time, a foreigner has written an able book on British Cabinet government or British local government. This is.Cobinet Reform......