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INDEX FOR JANUARY-JUNE, 1960 INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TITLES A Abrams, Mark, Why Labour Has Lost Elections, 685, 826 (A) Acrobat Admits, Alfred Grossman, 743 (R) Act of Mercy,...

I N days gone by Punch used to provide annually variations of a stock cartoon in which the wicked Old Year, depicted as an aged, dilapidated codger with a Rip Van Winkle beard,...

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year, and while 'twas here it brought good cheer. Roughly nine hundred million Christmas cards were sent in Britain, and at least thirty people were killed on the roads....

Front DARSIE GILLIE PA RI A L regimes, Le Monde recently observed, are born in political sin—defeat, rebellion or conspiracy. The problem for any regime is to surmount these...

From SARAH GAINHAM I T has been a year of consolidation in both East and West Germany. Both have enjoyed a prosperity unknown since the war began to go wrong; and it has been...

Spoiling the Broth I THINK it is time the multiple letter was quietly buried. It has had a good run; its usefulness has been exhausted, and it is now rapid!) , approaching the...

By CYRIL RAY* IDE to the sound of the guns!' was the counsel offered to aspiring war correspon- dents by William Howard Russell, of Printing House Square, Balaclava and Bull...

By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS T HE tenth birthday of NATO found the world perhaps in better, but NATO in worse, condi- tion than it was when it was invented. Ten years ago Stalin was...

would like to make a few comments on Ber- nard Levin's article and Mr. Patrick Hutber's letter on this subject, but first I ought to declare my interest —or rather, lack of...

SIR,—It surely is odd reasoning on your part that because a band of irregulars, condemned by both thp Roman _Catholic Church in Ireland and by the Government of the Irish...

some years now ! For many days previous to Christmas a tree has been displayed, brilliantly lit, in Hanover Square— and very pleasant to behold! On Christmas Day, however,...

really excellent article which you featured on 'The Monster of Piccadilly Circus.' Mr. Levin has done the greatest possible service to the archi - tectural world.—Yours...

The Bishop of Exeter, James Menhinick The Monster of Piccadilly Circus W. P. King, Mrs. Monica Pidgeon Ireland W. Douglas Telephone-Tapping John Sparrow, D. H. Cameron Ian...

' candour on my part, because in my letter about tappin g' of telephones I made no reference to the Part played by the General Medical Council in the recent case, self-...

over-simplify it, but I think the Warden of All Souls is right. There is a distinction betwem the doctor's case and the barrister's. The real reason for the public outcry in...

SK—To a liberal-minded Catholic, Mr. George Meany's cable quoted by Senor Moreno in the Spectator, was a heartening indication that not all my co-religionists in the...

SIR,—The letter published in the Spectator dated December 18, 1959, and signed by Sir Alan Herbert and others, appears to be based on a misunderstand- ing of the facts. While...

-II, 13, 19, 29 is also an arithmetical progressio . with numbers going up by 2, 6, 10, 14, etc., and Ill snooker, if one starts with a foul, one's opponents, given a free ball,...

SIR,—In his study of De Quincey's drug-taking Mr. Dan Jacobson confines his attention to the two ver- sions of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater given in my edition. He...

SIR,—In the notorious leader published in The Times in August, 1956, headed 'Escaper's Club' (which casti- gated all opponents of Eden's strong line over SII 4 as spineless...

SIR,--The pen may sometimes be mightier than the sword but not, I fear, Mr. Levin's venomous little ball-point. There are many of us, both here and in the Union, who cannot...

147, as stated in the answers to your Christmas Quo tions, but 155. It can be made in the following way' Before any of the reds have been potted your o ponent plays a foul shot...

SIR,-1 was very interested in the 'Spectator's Note- book' dealing with the pressures exerted by the seed trade, or certain organs of the seed trade, on the Shopper's. Guide....

13 create an Edwin Muir Memorial Fund. The sponsors include Mr. R. A. Butler, T. S. Eliot, Neil Gunn, the Marquis of Lothian, Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Earl of Selkirk—and,...

Deviating Into Sense By ALAN BRIEN One Way Pendulum. (Royal Court.) — Merry Wives of Windsor. (Old Vic.) — Alice in Wonderland. (Winter Gar- den.)—Noddy in Toyland....

TN the Spectator of December 4 our theatre critic "severely criticised Mr. Jack' Hylton in connec- tion With the musical Kookaburra. Finding that Mr. Hylton was concerned with...

No, No, Ninette ! By CLIVE BARNES THE year 1959 was for 'Estab- lishment ballet and, of course, Establishment ballet critics. The Royal Ballet have been plug- ging it out at...

The Way the World Ends By ISABEL QU1GLY ° Theatre.) `THE biggest story of our time,' g say the posters for On the Beach n (director: Stanley Kramer; 'A' certificate), and...

By SIMON HODG SON DON'T mind your pieces,' she said, 'at least they're never about pictures.' Possibly not. But they're round-and-about most of the time, although I have...

The Image of Democracy By JAMES JOLL N May, 1831, two young French lawyers arrived in New York, ostensibly on a mission from the French Government to study the American penal...

The Englishman has no special love of foreigners, still less for refugees, whom he regards as guilty of poverty, a vice he never for- gives—but he clings to the right of...

BOOKS about sex—those offered for public sale, at least—have several possible justifications, They may make us laugh, an important service, for in the present state of...

endhal : Notes on a Novelist. By Robert M. Adams. (Merlin Press, 21s.) an entry in his travel diary for February 6, 17, Stendhal asked himself a question : 'What this self,...

The Banquet Years. By Roger Shattuck. (Faber,' 36s.) THERE is always something vaguely suspect in Anglo-Saxon enthusiasm for la vie de Boheme. . When the Anglo-Saxons in...

The Third Voice. By Denis Donoghue. (0.U.P., 30s.) THAI' the prestige of poetic drama in any age is no guarantee of permanent literary achievement is a lesson of history. We...

THE ability of American statesmen to control the activities of the military who are constitutionally their subordinates has been much debated in the United States in recent...

°R. DAVIE has sought and won a reputation as a kind of iron-lung poet, interested in, and devot- i ng an admirable intelligence to, the techniques of carrying on breathing, the...

A Clash of Cymbals. By James Blish. (Faber, 13s. 6d.) The Tongue of Fire. By Mika Waltari. (Putnam, 12s. 6d.) IN some ways, a week like this can be more inter- esting than a...

By CUSTOS T HE shortage of stock on jobbers' books caused an unseemly rise in prices when markets opened after the Christmas recess. The Financial Times index at 338.6 has now...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE law governing the powers of investment for trustees has re- mained substantially unchanged for seventy years and at long last a Government White Paper...

From Our Industrial Correspondent I NDUSTRIAL relations get curiouser and curi- ouser; and 1959 did not arrest their descent into wonderland. We had a printing strike, which...

R ICHARD COSTAIN. With the maintained 5 per cent. interim dividend, the company has issued a valuable half-yearly statement. The chair- man, Sir Richard Costain, states that the...

By KATHARINE WHITEHORN v _r You turn to the front for handy reference to this tl °o, ignoring rods, poles and perches altogether, begi ns: son) into an eye-catching beauty!'...

And Cried A Sale ! A Sale ! By LESLIE ADRIAN BEFORE we have barely had time to recover from the Christmas brandy, let alone pay the poulterer's bill, the shops will be starting...

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ACROSS I May this wish mean ihat all a solsers will be 28! (5, 3, 4) l'here's yet plenty of time for _ keeping the casks up (9) 10 Of the wily compiler? (5) 11 More would seem...

AT a recent tasting of Vene- tian wines British importers showed especial interest, I am told, in Bardolino, and it ought to be easier to find in this country now than it has...

le 'ambles. It Rasage. 12 Adorable. .,cr. IS Patterned. 18 Stitching. 20 Bogus. 22 Aorxinase. 24 Hoarse. 26 Goble- sere. 27 Arena. 28 Misused. 29 Trestle. DOWN.-1 Vicarious. 2...