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Postscript

Soame Jenyns P. J. Kavanagh • T owe an apology to readers for reverting to a topic, but it is others, not I, who will not leave it alone. For instance, only yesterday in the......

Chess

Happy old year Raymond Keene 1 984 was remarkable for English chess. IJon Speelman set the tone for the coming twelve months by winning at Hast- ings and the rest of the year......

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Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for bromidic advice to youth in the form of a Miltonic sonnet ending in three lines supplied from Housman's 'Fragment of a Greek......

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No. 1354: Thriller filler Set by Charles Seaton: At an interesting point in a paperback thriller some spilt liquid has obliterated part of a page and it now runs: 'I turned the......