31 JANUARY 1969, page 10

Shrinking Sales

THE PRESS BILL GRUNDY I never thought to find delight in something called the Institute of Practitioners in Advertis- ing's Duplication Tables. But I have, and I owe it to Mr......

Catchee Monkey

TELEVISION STUART HOOD I suppose that, next to Wilder, Barlow is one of the most firmly established, most fully realised fictional characters to appear on our screens. After a......

Cave Canem

CONSUMING INTEREST LESLIE ADRIAN Jimmy has just appeared in the doorway, pre- cariously holding between his teeth a small earthenware bowl. He deposits this at my feet and wags......

Plan Song

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Fond, impious Man, presume not thou to scan That Marplan Plan that is more mar than plan. For, lo, our reverent ieaders there can score Tots of a sixty-five......