17 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 59

Imperative Cooking: No To Soup

THE man ,‘ ho tried to teach politics to lazy undergraduate Anderson was Profes- sor Peter Campbell. Patient and kind, he was also a scholar specialising in French politics. I......

Competition

Myself when young Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1540 you were in- vited to provide a paragraph, consisting of one sentence of about 150 words, from an early chapter of an......

Solution To 873: We Three

The `origins' of these puzzles are their setters Jac, Mass and Doc: see 27, 30, 41 & 11; 20, 22, 43 & 29; and 10, 12, 17 & 13 respectively. Winners: A. J. Clark, Hartley......

No. 1543: Getting It Wrong

Did Marx, Freud, Mark Twain or de Gaulle ever watch a cricket match? If so, how would they have described and inter- preted it, assuming a command of English? A description of......