MATCH GAME
Sur,--Two points. First, if Bernard Levin's sanity is worth 3s. 6d., spend it on a Pelican, Riddles in Mathematics by Eugene P. Northrop. The Matches Game is explained on pp. 43-46. I'll bet he doesn't understand it, Second point. Julian Mitchell is wrong. He is not the only living man never to have read All Quiet on the Western Front. I haven't either, but I don't boast about it. My special uniqueness comes through being the only man in the world to get so fed up with Ben- Hur that I came out before the chariot race.
The Oaks, Marple Bridge, Cheshire BILL GRUNDY
[Bernard Levin writes: 'Unbounded though my admiration for the erudition of the Spectator's readers has always been, I could scarcely have imagined the spate of telephone-calls, letters and postcards which has poured from them since I started this March hard. I would now be willing to take on Einstein himself at the game (pausing after each move to consult my table of binary numbers). The twitch, incidentally, is now much worse, and I still think L'Annee derniere a Marienbad is a whole lot of twaddle.'—Editor, Spectator.]
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