7 APRIL 1950, page 5

One Thing That A Layman Like Myself Never Fully Understands

about the Boat Race is how it comes that the Head of the River race in the afternoon is always won in better time than the University crews achieved in the morning. This year......

A Spectator's Notebook T He Fact That The Foreign...

his doctor with him on so comparatively short a journey as that to Strasbourg and Paris will not have escaped notice. It is hardly calculated to alleviate the anxiety which many......

It Was A Good Thing That The Question Of Smoking

in trains should be raised in the House of Commons, though a pity that the discus- sion should have been confined so largely to the indulgence of the habit in restaurant-cars.......

The Daily Telegraph Must Treat Its Editors Well, They Last

so long. The record, I imagine, - is held by Sir John Le Sage, who served the paper for 60 years, nearly 40 of them as Managing Editor. He retired in 1923 and, after a brief......

Europe's Easter

C " HRIST is risen." How far the Easter greeting traditional in Russia is current in the Soviet Union today there is no means of knowing. There is little means of knowing......

R.a.f. Fly In Vaccine News Chronicle.

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"i Fear," A Friend Writes, "the Enclosed Is Not Well

typed but I am without my secretary who generally retypses artivles when they get untidy." How well I understand. * * * *......

A Good Deal Of Nonsense Has Been Rife About The

division in which the Government was defeated last week. Mr. Morrison on Friday talked far less sensibly than Mr. Attlee on Thursday, and the Observer leader-writer, who spoke......