Spectator's Notebook
l r was cold in Westminster Hall. Cold and high and lonely and, for all the files of mourners, empty. As one stood at the top of the crypt steps it was not the catafalque and......
The Grand Design
I was glad to see that Lord Attlee went out of his way in his House of Lords eulogy to refer to Churchill's great biography of Marlborough. As we all know, the volumes of The......
God Be With You . . .
The mystique of Balliol has always eluded me. Balliol men are rarely effortless, not always superior. But there is a distinct Balliol manner. The college has a way of taking the......
Tailpiece It May Seem A Little Early To Announce Literary
awards for 1965, but I unhesitatingly declare Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn's new book to possess the most pretentious title of the year—The Re- generation of Britain. The book......
Mr. Green And The Plumbers
From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK r Titie public life of Ernest Green, twenty-three, 1 stands for a whole history, simple and easy when it began, brief in its course, and now come to......
Flush In This Issue (and I Believe Also In The
New Statesman) there is a full-page advertisement from ATV, and if anything gladdens my heart more than a full-page advertisement it is a double-page spread. The Listener was......
W.s.c.
None of the formal tributes matched the theme. None of them could. Here and there, as when Paul Reynaud and when Harold Macmillan spoke, one heard snatches of a requiem. For the......
Leyton
John Harvey's short •piece on Leyton in this issue gives full praise, and rightly so, to Ronald Buxton, the new MP, and to a very efficient, and reinforced, constituency......
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