12 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 30

Philidor's Chess Column Will Appear As Usual Next Week.

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The Mushroomers

'"You be careful 'ow you goes apickin' mush' rooms in among trees an' sich places," 'e tole me. "A lot o' them things is poisonous, you knows," I stir pose 'e meant well, but......

Spectator Crossword No. 957

ACROSS 1 Suitable sub-title for 'Called Back'? (6) 4 . . . to a general conflagration, maybe (8). 10 He makes his mark well filled out (7). 11 'Round the - bole are in tiny......

Company Notes

By CUSTOS THE continued fall in Wall Street and the dangerous arms-lift in the ' Middle East contrived to put most security prices sharply down, except, curiously enough, the......

Bat Behaviour

Although I am not very well up in bats they hav e a fascination for me, particularly when they apP 0 J r to like the space between the house in which I live and the one next to......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL PERHAPS a person acutely sensitive to pitch and tone might not agree that there is any similarity between the hum of a combine and the sound of a beehive, but for......

Deep Water

Why is it, when it takes no more than six fed of water to cover the average man's head and he ma5' drown in almost a cupful, that the information tha t a particular lake or loch......