... A DEAD MAN FIGHTS FOR ENGLAND Sir Duff Cooper's Remarkable Novel, a Model for Young Writers in its Superb Simplicity -By VERNON FANE SIR DUFF COOPER'S story, OPERATION HEARTBREAK (Hart-Davis. 8s. 6d.), is a little gem. It is also an example of how an ...

... a dull moment. THE FREEBOOTERS. By Robert Wernick. (Cresset Press 9s. 6 d.) In a well-meaning blurb, the publishers promise us life turned upside down where brawls, black market, rape, getting drunk, spending money, queues at the Paniers Fleuris, intrigue ...

... is exactly the same. The stage and screen have made much of the procedure familiar to us, though often in an over-dramatised and lurid form, and novels have helped us to learn such exotic titles as the D.A. by heart. So that when we come to read Court ...

... may we not say human kindness be it but giving a cup of cold water to a prisoner of war or a part of a ration to a refugee, has in itself a taste of that enduring quality which we try to hint at by using such words as eternal, divine, Christ-like ...

... and the terror of the night when the German bombers set Coventry in flames. He takes us from Guy of Warwick to Joseph Chamberlain and does not even forget to tell us of the Ichthyosaurus discovered at Harbury and the six pillared Inigo Jones windmills ...

... would like put things simply to better herself. Instead, she :fts (as though fated) into a world of shady dance- 11s and back-street crime. y-R. Bates has made us feel to the full the \J I ingenuous innocence of Laura also her -^-youthful grace. So much ...

... canteen work on the wharf. She sang When Irish Eyes Are Smiling through her cupped hands later, when she progressed to the unique status of greeting and seeing-off every ship, she used a megaphone. Her exuberance bubbles up perpetually she does not go in for ...

... tainment. The Puzzle Corner item, which once used to drag all over the programme, has been speeded up by Ronnie Waldman. The Terry-Thomas show, How Do You View is not our cup of tea. Even the title makes us squirm. But we try to be broad- minded enough ...

... headquarters of the Russian trade delegation in England, of whom Nikolai Andrienko is the head. But getting an interview with Mr. Andrienko is as difficult as breaking into the vaults of the Bank of England. Phone calls meet with the same response. A woman ...

... and we are done. Are all the Historic Houses of England going to be as dull as Penshurst Place It could, and should be, a fascinating series. Our stately homes are the most beautiful and romantic in the world. If Producer John Read and Commentator Geoffrey ...

... After seven years of this sort of thing the novelty was beginning to wear off, and the music-hall proprietors were seriously using the bioscope as a chaser to clear audiences out of the theatre, when a picture came along that revived public interest in the ...

... it gets under way. Twelve O' Clock High is simply a story about a bomber group in the U.S. Eighth Air Force (in which both the authors served) stationed in England, during the early days of precision bombing. The morale of the crews has cracked through ...