It Was Delightful Last Saturday To See The...
Oxford University take a rest from the everlasting roads controversy and bend his formidable charm on Messrs. Bulganin and Khrushchev. What with one thing and another, he had a......
Whatever Useful Function Coroner's Courts Perform, It Is...
that some more reasonable and unified system of selecting, appointing, and paying the coroners themselves was arrived at. At the moment it is totally haphazard, with the result......
A Spectator's Notebook
A MONTH AGO I criticised the Home Office's attempt to prevent the Empire News from publishing the memoirs of the former executioner, Mr. Albert Pierrepoint. In the same week Mr.......
Double-dutch Intelligence
BERTHA, who is 20 now, is engaged to a Dutch cabinet-maker, Johan Bernardus Wolkenfelt. They have no marriage plans yet, however, because Bertha's parents think she is still too......
I Have Just Seen In A Recent Issu: Of The
Soviet New Times an illuminating article about 'The British Literary Scene' by V. Rubin. Since there have been no new books from 'some of the best-known English writers like......
A Correspondent Writes To Tell Me That He Found Himself
in a railway compartment recently with a neighbour's son, a boy of seventeen whose elder brother had left Cranwell shortly before. When he read out what I had written about the......
M R. J. B. Priestley Seems To Be Making Heavy Weather
of his lecture tour of Canada. When the chief librarian of Toronto said at a luncheon there that Mr. Priestley would autograph conies of his books. Mr. Priestley not only......
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