No. 6904 Lstablished 1828 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1960

M R. ALAN DENT, the distinguished dramatic critic of the News Chronicle, first learnt that there was no longer a News Chronicle for him to be dramatic critic of when the Daily...

died, of L 1 ,eing swallowed. Mr. Laurence Cadbury said that his chocolate firm was thinking of spending Lim. °n a fac to ry 10 in Germany. Sh ad GREENWOOD RESIGNED from the...

Council report, is chiefly concerned with the way the money—what there is of it—is distri- buted to the arts in Britain. But one of its minor recommendations—centralised action...

the benefieht of the National Health Service? How en ive is it, in terms of the quality, of the tr went provided? 'We do not know : official attempt has been made to find who...

From MICHAEL LEAPMAN NICOSIA C YI'RUS is not working very well yet. On the surface it all looks prosperous enough. Cars choke Nicosia's narrow streets, elegantly dressed then...

By ANTHONY HARTLEY rro what extent has the individual the right to I resist the State? This question is a peculiarly delicate one, and is likely to become more so as increasing...

Perfect Peace By CHRISTOP HER HOLLIS I N Mr. Terence Rattigan's The Final Test an English spectator of the match is asked by an impatient American, 'Is anything going to hap-...

The Day They Killed It By PHILIP PURSER T HE night before the rumours had been harder than they d ever been before, but the paper came out, didn't it? Hopes rallied a bit in...

The Great Days By HUBERT PHILLIPS W HO'S this chap Phillips?' 'Just another bloody-brass hat.' I overheard this scrap of dialogue on the day I became a member of the staff of...

By PETER MICKAELS AM overlooking the campus of a large, Mid- Western university, watching groups of girls, dressed in shirts, Bermuda shorts, bobby socks 4 d tennis shoes, and...

By KENNETH ALLSOP N the Rue St. Severin, a narrow thirteenth- _l_century Left Bank street ajostle with Greek and Algerian restaurants, is a Chinese novelty shop with 'PRODUITS...

SIR,—Miss Monica Furlong ' s interesting article in the Spectator of October 7 is open to misinterpretation in two respects. First, money was not freely available for the...

Sex Education Nicolas Walter, Donald Davie ll on t Shoot the Obstetrician I srael J ordan Anatomy of Partnership 'Pioneers in Criminology' Com mitment in Films Frank Hart Ion...

SIR,—'What is sex?' asks David Holbrook, but he doesn't really stay for an answer. He is so preoccu - pied by literature and the verbalising of emotions that he imagines he has...

have just seen Miss Belfrage ' s article 'Assassination in Context ' in your issue of September 9. Perhaps it is not too late to comment. I agree with Miss Belfrage that the...

SIR,—Mr. Childers is now wandering rather far afield in an endeavour to avoid answering the simple question I put to him — and to Ian Gilmour — many weeks ago. Let me...

feelings can be given : English is the true edu- cation of the life - flame. ' In its context in David Hol- brook ' s article, 'this sentence was less vapid than it appears in...

A we ' I n Your issue of October 7 in an article headed wa s `°")Y of Partnership,' the following reference s ade : ' • • the 'partnership' which the African was Pyreodini.sed...

earned such a sharp rebuke from Dr. Hermann Mannheim. But it had never occurred to me that my first flippant sentence could be so misunderstood. Since 1935 Dr. Mannheim's...

SIR,-1 am sorry that Oxford Opinion feels mis- represented, though whether by me or by Penelope Houston in Sight and Sound I am not quite clear. Of course. we (the committed)...

Bar by Bar By DAVID CAIRNS phrases, the mi g hty choral shout of 'Kyrie' (bein g a g reat choir and a superbly trained instrument, the Philharmonia Chorus was able to g rasp...

Under the Skin By SIMON HODGSON .THE Manzu exhibition at the Tate Gallery presents a craftsman - modeller whose concern, at first si g ht, is with the everyday appearance of...

Between Two Schools By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Platonov. (Royal Court.) —The Playboy of the Western World. (Pic- cadilly.—Mary Stuart. (Old Vic.) 11 has been a week on the big...

Light in Darkness By ISABEL QUIGLY 1 WONDER who thought of the title, Shadows. It is one of those words to conjure any number of reactions and meanings, sfunzature of...

Endless Imitation By PETER FORSTER HIGH time, don't you think, that we had some novelties? By late Octo- ber we surely have a right to expect something fresh and inventive...

Once Below a. Time By D. J. ENRIGHT D YLAN THOMAS, who died in 1953 at the age , of thirty-nine, was a writer. His reputation touching on Under Milk Wood, an entertaining and...

over 60' —from the list of the ° , who came to GatsbY 5 Out of the shadows made by privet hedges in the green darkness at the edge of the lawn stepped the yellow white flannels...

My Royal Past. By Cecil Beaton. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 18s.) FOR a week Dear Dead Days lay on my table and everyone who came into the room picked it up saying, with eager...

InE great thing is the state of your own mind; and You ought to write down everything you c an • immediately while the impression is fresh: Thus Johnson, trumpeting in the Age...

Swinburne: A Selection. By Dame Edith Sitwell. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 25s.) LITERARY revaluations arc either the result of fresh critical conviction or they are merely...

a ll Our plays by Mr. William Douglas Home- Mr . Christopher Fry; just as it was wonderful long ago to find that all our poems were not by r. Edmund Blunden, or long, long ago...

MR. CYRIL RAY belongs to a vanishing species: he is an authentic journalist. All but a few of those who call themselves so have long ago sur- rendered any independence: their...

Ickes And their Relation to the Unconscious. By Sigmund Freud. Translated by James Strachey. (Routledge, 25s.) WHAT we really owe to Freud are his splendidly se minal hunches....

BY DAN JACOBSON TN speaking of Franz Kafka, it is as well to 'speak of him first as a Jew, because in doing so one is able to arrive at an idea of the extreme, the crippling,...

OBI, the educated young Nigerian hero, sits a government office in Lagos and reflects on his English boss: He must have come originally with an idea to bring light to the...

The Foxglove Saga. By Auberon Waugh. (Chap- man and Hall, 15s.) . The Storms of Summer. By John lggulden. (Chapman and Hall, 18s.) IN publishing his first novel, Auberon Waugh...

Stranger Within. By Sir Francis Oppenheim er (Faber, 42s.) SIR FRANCIS OPPENHEIMER, writing at niner Y ' cuts short his autobiography. Stranger With lr ,, i ' with apparent...

ENGLISH eighteenth-century memoirs are incom- parable, and too little known. Horace Walpole and James Boswell, superb as they are, have rivals. A year or two ago Romney Sidgwick...

MURIEL SPARK'S g leeful and alarmin g novels are oddities, to put it mildly, and not least in their view of the motives of human speech. Scornin g the widespread notion that...

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT To travel by Comet undoubtedly helps a man to take a world view. Flying over the vast European market at 32.000 feet I was able to look back on Mr. Selwyn...

By CUSTOS TNVESTMENT practice is simple enough if you 'keep to a few rigid rules. Confine your basic portfolio to the equities of the leading companies in basic industries like...

good elel _ v5 or shareholders of Bekoh Consolida t e ) Rubber Estates in reporting a profit of , against £46,811 for the year ending March 31 i 1960, which allows for £9,445...

Too Many Cooks By ELIZABETH DAVID THE cool blonde on the jacket picture of the cen- tenary edition of Mrs. Beeton keeps reminding me of Swinburne's Pros- crpi ne : crowned...

Odd Jobs By LESLIE ADRIAN I SUPPOSE everyone I ° —or is looking for 'little man'' or a woman' round the collie to do odd jobs at reas 4r i able prices. My next - P i neighbour...

Testing Time By GAVIN LY ALL OVER the last few days I have been privileged to test the new car which, I can confidently predict, will be the toast of this year's Motor Show:...

As soon as a journalist fancies that the im- pudence of public rela- tions has reached its limit, a new dollop of sauce is sloshed from the bottle. Every day, a number of...