On Easter Sunday General E. P. Curtis Arrived In London
from the United States at a London hotel. The lift-man, who knew him well, greeted him with, " Well, General, glad to see you again. But what are you Americans up to? Here......
Mr. Gaitskell Does His Best
T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer was very careful to stress, in both his speech in the Commons and his broad- cast to the nation, that his Budget could not be popular. This very......
Company Reports Do Not As A Rule Make Very Absorbing
read- ing. One that does year by year is that of Pest Control, which turns an honest penny or two for its shareholders by making life hard for insect pests the world over. In......
The Return Of Sir Arthur Salter For Ormskirk Was, Of
course. a foregone conclusion, but the increase in the Conservative majority was not. The fact that on a relatively small poll the Conservative vote dropped by 4,500 and the......
A Spectator 's Notebook •
W ITH Sir Ernest Benn courting penal servitude through obduracy about his census form and the Housewives' League burning their ration-books somewhere in the vicinity of the......
Various Bits Of Information Have Reached Me Regarding...
between animals. I am grateful for them, but so far they have not carried the matter much further. One story is interesting. Some years ago, it seems, the B.B.C. broadcast the......
The Weather Being So Suggestive, Of An English Summer,...
naturally turn to Lord's and Old Trafford and Bramall Lane and the rest. But it is an odd thing that till now, so I am told, no list of first-class and minor county fixtures has......
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