3 OCTOBER 1952, page 6

Mischief At Morecambe

T HE extent of the damage, one day at Morecambe has done to the Labour Party will not be fully demonstrated for some time to come. The magnitude of the Bevanite success must not......

Being Elsewhere Than Here Last Week, I Did Not See

the interesting letters from Lord Asquith and others on Mr. Asquith's literary posers till they appeared in the paper. They move me to two observations, one particular and one......

A Spectator's Notebook

0 "Crawfie " is at work again. In what I find a most repel- lent advertisement of a woman's paper I read : "At Last! Royal Governess `Crawfie' tells the full, intimate, authen-......

The Times Has Its Own Way With Its Own Affairs—on

the whole a very good way. The announcement on Wednesday : "Mr. W. F. Casey retired last night from the Editorship of The Times. Sir William Haley takes up the Editorship......

Lord Astor Was An Exceptional Man, Far More Exceptional Than

those who only knew of him at a distance—as an M.P., as a millionaire, as a racing man (who, I believe, never betted) as the owner of Cliveden (with its non-existent " set "),......

Do You Know Brewer—that Invaluable Work Of Reference,...

of Phrase and Fable? Cassells have done a public service in producing a new and revised edition—a new brew, in fact. My immediate impulse was to test the newcomer, quite at......