Sapiens Was The Name
When I read, that Londoners are being urged by a group of doctors to dim masks this winter, to protect their noses and throats against Smog, a vision began to form in my mind of......
The Moon And Twopence
Other attractions included messages of encouragement from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Gift Potter and the Rugby Portland Cement Company; the offer to readers of two seats......
Americans In Europe
B ETWEEN the smoke and the fire of the rumour that America may reduce its ground troops in Europe no one in London, or probably on this side of the Atlantic, is able to......
Unfair To Philistines ?
In a way I sympathise with the gentleman who—on the very day, by a happy coincidence, that the State acquired a fine -Cdzanne—sturdily wrote in a letter to The Times: " I am......
Focus On Choughs
I will send a brace of pheasants to the reader who produces the most convincing explanation of what bird or birds Shakespeare had in his mind's eye when he wrote (A Mid- summer......
A Shrewd Observer, Just Back From The Last Of 'several
visits to Kenya, confessed himself unable to explain Mau Mau save in imponderable terms. His first contacts with the Nazi move- ment in 1934 had, he said, given him the same......
A Spectator's Notebook
cc S I dtove back to London, my head was literally buzzing," wrote the Marquess of Donegall after interviewing Lord Burghley for the first issue of the Recorder. I found myself......
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