Lord Gladwyn's Quotation
Stn,-In a recent Spectator, Lord Gladwyn, 7 beginning his article on de Gaulle with a warning note, quotes from Matherbe's great poem, which begins 'Ta douleur, du Pdrier.' His......
Polish Airmen
S1R.-May 1 appeal through your 'paper for help for the Polish Air Force Association Benevolent Fund which exists for the same purpose as the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.......
The Larger Hope
SLR,-A remarkable letter by Miss Vanessa Red- grave in a recent issue of your paper has just come to my notice. It contains an account of the coming to power of the Brazilian......
Senility
SIR,-Attemptin g to find a companion to sit (at 55. 6d. per hour with expenses paid) with an eighty- nine-year-old woman in the geriatric wing of a well- known private mental......
Spectator Crossword No. 1200
ACROSS 1. Coat of arms (6) 4. Fateful meeting place of a brutal ending (8) 8. How Mafeking was put on the map? (8) 10. 'The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show - so......
70 M.p.h.
SIR,--The sooner we can impose-and enforce-a 70 m.p.h. speed limit on all public highways the better. High speeds are all right for a fast car driven by a good driver where he......
Sir.-quoodle, Disconcerted, No Doubt, By The Irritating...
in Rhodesia to happen at a time inconvenient for the Spectator, and by the inexplicable success of Mr. Gunter in discussions with the bakers' leaders, has used a singularly un-......
I Tatti
SIR,—There has only now been brought to my atten- tion the review by Mrs. Sylvia Sprigge of the selected letters of Bernard Berenson edited by A. K. McComb in your issue of June......
The Marrying Age
SIR,-I should be grateful if any of your readers could provide me with information about the rela- tion-if any-between the age at which a woman marries, and her physical beauty.......
Osagyefo
SIR,-Brian Crdzier, somewhat out of his depth in reviewing Nkrumah's Neo-Colonialism, begins by stating that `Dr. Nkrumah is known in Ghana as the Redeemer.' The word osagyefo......
Solution To Crossword No 1199 9 13 19 25
29 DOWN.-1 'Cramped. 2 Establish. 3 ra Ruskin. 5 Orbs. 6 Eurasian . 7 Irene. Manatee. 11 Maudlin. 14 Amanita. 17 Pinchbeck. 18 Pot-hater. 19 Exhibit. 21 Wid u eon. 22 Breech, 24......
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