14 MARCH 1969, page 27

Box Of Tricks

AFTERTHOUGHT A. P. HERBERT NICHOLAS NATTER This is Hot News, London. Tonight we cover a question which has baffled Man for hundreds of years, which puzzled Napoleon and defeated......

No. 544: Father To Son

COMPETITION And these few precepts in thy memory /See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue. . . Polonius's admonitory words to Laertes, tediously familiar though they......

No. 542: The Winners

. Trevor Grove reports: 'My father, whose name I forget, was a fat, lazy man in a tweed pork- pie hat with a tobacco-stained moustache.' That was the opening sentence of John......