My First Operation

We were all waiting. The patient, already anaesthetised, was lying on the operating table. The anaesthetist, sitting at the head of the table, presiding like father at Sunday lunch, kept one eye on the machine by his side and the …

Learn to Know Yourself

Vernon Coleman’s hugely popular book Know Yourself has just been republished as a paperback. The book contains 940 questions that reveal the real you. Are you loyal, obsessive or inquisitive? What job is right for you? Will you ever be …

Passing Observations 192

    President John Kennedy was pushed into accepting Johnson as his vice president. (Johnson had evidence of Kennedy’s philanderings.) ‘I’m 43-years-old,’ said JFK, ‘I’m not going to die in office. So the vice presidency doesn’t mean anything.’ A Dutch optician insisted