7 APRIL 1950, page 10

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Television Commentator

By ROBERT HUDSON (ClELCOME to Twickenham "—with these words, designed to transport the viewer from his drawing- room to the very touchline itself, another Rugby match is......

Dead Languages?

By T. W. MELLIJISH E VERY now and then some high authority conducts a funeral service over the classics. Latin, it is said, has gone into a rapid decline ; Greek has dwindled to......