27 FEBRUARY 1971, Page 24

Unclear Skinflint

Sir: In the absence of your usual weekly competition (suspended. I hope, because of the postal strike rather than killed off) I am pre- pared to offer a sporting guinea (£1.05) to anyone who can explain to me the meaning of Skinflint's paragraph about me in last week's SPECTATOR.

Peter Paterson

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