6 FEBRUARY 1953, Page 18

A Spectator Puzzle

It seems to me—perhaps to you— We ought to know a thing or two About this super-man who wrecks All other entrants' hope of cheques. Whate'er the competition set, He's sure the highest praise to get: It may be verse; it may be prose; (All languages perhaps he knows;) Advertisements of comic trend Are just the, stuff he loves to send; No letter, parody or speech Is out of Kennard Davis' reach. Now does he burn the midnight oil His rival readers to despoil.?

And does he gain his bed and board Out of the kind Spectator's hoard'? And is he old, or is he young, Or stands he on a middle rung ? And is he fat, or broad, or small ? '

SIR,—

Is he indeed a man at all ? . F. M.