24 DECEMBER 1948, page 4

Two Cricket Balls Figured Prominently In Tuesday's...

hit ; the other wasn't. The one that was went for a six, and landed 98 yards beyond the bat on a lady's head. It turned up in the King's Bench Division on Monday, when Mr.......

I Am Glad To See That The Times In A

recent leading article, both discusses the importance of the work of almoners in the new National Health Service and makes reference to the excellent monthly, The Almoner, which......

I Listened With Considerable Aesthetic Satisfaction One...

to a vigorous and heart-felt philippic by a distinguished literary personality on ,what he called the domination of the listener. Normally a country-diveller, he came to London......

The Catering Wages Commission Is Back On The Subject Of

staggered holidays—and no wonder, for the August rush is bad for hotels, which have to refuse thousands a - applicants whom they could accept, at considerable profit to......

* * * * Whisky Et Puritanisme Les -travaillistes...

CONTRE LES " Boras PARTIES " It looks odder in French somehow. ]ANUS. Le Monde.......

Christmas Reflections

T HE Christian world commemorates this week an event in his- tory, an event which has done more than any other in recorded time to determine the path humanity shall take. $o......

' A Spectator 's Notebook

I HOPE the nation as a whole realises how much it owes to the Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, for the part he has played in the proceedings before the Tribunal at......

What Has Made The Sunday Times Go All Genteel ?

On its fron page last Sunday were advertised articles (to be found within) b: " Mr." Walter de la Mare, "Mr." Cyril Conniolly, " Mr." Clifford Bax, " Mr." D. R. Gent, and so on.......