6 JANUARY 1961, page 38

Cons Um Ing Interest

On the Never By LESLIE ADRIAN READING that the end-of- year bad debt total in- curred by the hire-pur- chase companies is likely to be nearer £10 million than £7 million, I......

Mind And Body

The Stumblers B y JOHN LYDG ATE all fall down. Not very often, but the startling unpleasantness of a heavy fall is a sharp reminder of the self 1) effacing miracle of the jiI -......

Postscript . • •

'painted . . . in memory of their trips to Norway to fish, shoot and paint.' A terrible painting, but the summing-up of whole shelves of high-minded aM horribly healthy......