27 JULY 1956, page 16

Mr. Parker's Piece

The case for public ownership in die motor- car industry—and Mr. Gaitskell's form may well be that most suited to this industry—rests upon the desirability of looking at the......

Earnest Prose

THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT. (Carl- ton.) The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit was a best- selling novel and (if the usherettes' comments I listened to are anything to go by)......

Contemporary Arts

Summer Miscellanies THE season of large mixed exhibitions has returned; two of them are to be found at galleries—Gimpel Fils and the Beaux Arts— which have a pronounced policy......