18 APRIL 1969, page 36

Away From It All

AFTERTHOUGHT T. C. SKEFFINGTON-LODGE T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Labour candidate in the recent by-election at Brighton, told the electors that, win or lose, he intended to visit a......

No. 547: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invited to imagine that the Eurovision Song Contest had in fact been running for rather longer than its nine dim years and to compose a......

Chess No. 435

PHILIDOR Black _White 11 nwn 10 men B. Smi h (The Problemist, Nov. 1968). White to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 434 (Shinkmant: Q - R 8! no......

No. 549: The Butler's Thoughts

COMPETITION A perennial puzzler for students of Belloc's Cautionary Tales is the question of what the Lundy butler thought of his young master . . . `The Dear Old Butler......