22 FEBRUARY 1957, page 14

Notes On A Voyage

By STRIX Somewhere in Canada A PPLE-CHEEKED was the word to describe the taxi-driver. Elderly, courteous, and when it came to suitcases herculean, he seemed to belong to the......

Great Minds Intelligence

HUXLEY once defined the 'practical man' as One who repeated the errors of his forefathers.—Page 86 of The First Ten Years (National Coal Board publica- tion). DISRAELI defined a......

Consuming Interest

By LESLIE ADRIAN 'THERE are two of life's pleasures which ought to be complementary : an evening at the theatre and a good dinner. They are rarely com- plementary in London......