16 JANUARY 1953, Page 4

Glimpses into the past have their interest. I happened this

week to be turning over the files of The Spectator for no more than twenty years ago (we can do six times as well as that when we try; we shall soon) and came on two items that seem worth mentioning. One was a letter beginning, " Sir, Low indeed has The Spectator fallen.," (All the poor thing had done was to start publishing crossword puzzles.) The other was an article " New Light on the Atom," by J. D. Cockcroft. I suppose Sir John Cockcroft would consider that there is still newer light to shed by this time.

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