24 MAY 1957, page 22

The Lancaster Queen

WHATEVER Miss Nancy Mitford may urge in its favour, most people cannot possibly manage, however hard they try (and an inverted puritanism often makes us try to like all sorts of......

Strange Athlete

BARING-GOULD was an English eccentric and a confirmed amateur. To people like this the nation tends to accord an indulgent awe. And the sug- gestion that someone is a boring......