Weather-cock
THE function of Punch for most of 115 years has been to mirror accurately, then to mould subtly, and finally to create entirely certain middle-class attitudes towards (a) the......
Over The Water
Intercepted Post, edited by Donald Nicholas (Bodley Head, 16s.), a miscellaneous collection of letters, written principally by Jacobite sympathisers and intercepted during the......
G-men
*G-MEN' merely means 'Government men': the nickname was invented by Machine-Gun Kelly in 1933 for the FBI, which dates from 1908. With headquarters at Washington, under the......
New Novels
A TRADITIONAL week, fictionally speaking; the standard high, but without any surprises, the expected qualities and a good deal more. Storm Jameson's The Intruder (Macmillan,......