12 JULY 1969, page 12

Television

Lost horizons STUART HOOD That applications for the award of 1TA pro- gramme contracts should be made public seems obvious on the grounds that the public interest is involved.......

Table Talk

High Midsummer pomps DENIS BROGAN During the 'Era of Beautiful Nonsense', the once famous portrayer of the young American girl, John Held, Jr., of pre-Luce Life, ran, not quite......

Trad And Trendy

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS 'Yet young people like this are not in the least typical of the present younger genera- tion'—A. E. Dyson on `The yahoo effect' (SPECTATOR, 5 July). What is......