13 FEBRUARY 1953, page 5

Janus Of Course Has Two Faces, For Looking Forward And

looking back. Last week he was so intent on looking forward that he got a little lax about looking back, and consequently failed to realise that the project for a new women's......

The Suggestiorr Which I Made, In Some Ignorance, Last Week

that the loss of the ' Princess Victoria might have been largely due to the fact that the car doors in the stern were calculated to withstand heavy seas far less effectively......

A New Form Of Camaraderie Between Men And *omen...

has, I observe, been inaugurated at Cambridge. It consists of the fulfilment of a vow taken by some members of a women's college to take baths, undetected, in every men's......

Join Europe Now ?

T HOSE many forces that frequently have beaten against the resistance of all British Governments since the war to full membership of all the various schemes for European......

Some Few 'weeks Ago, In A Street Leading Off Tottenham

Court Road, I noticed a venerable and massive figure standing stock-still in the middle of the pavement. As I passed him I observed that it was Dr.` Vaughan Williams. Looking......

A Spectator's Notebook

R. EDEN's friends will have welcomed his decision to take a short rest in the country this week, for in spite of official reassurances he has looked very tired of late, and with......

The Announcement That Mr. J. W. Wheeler-bennett Has Been...

the official biographer of the late King comes a little unexpectedly, for Mr. Wheeler-Bennett's literary interests have'lain so far almost wholly in the field of inter- national......

Does Everyone Know How A 999 Call Works ? I

never did till I listened to a B.B.C..play on Saturday night, most of it consisting of calls to and from police-stations. If that was correct, and no doubt it was, the operator......

I Understand That The Editor Of This Journal Is Included

in the list of those on whom the, University of St. Andrews proposes to confer honorary degrees at the Graduation Ceremonial in June; he is to get the degree of LL.D. Sir Evelyn......