19 JULY 1968, page 31

The Alien Menace

.AFTERTHOUGHT DAVID LAZELL In the September of 1927, a Mr A. H. Lane stayed at a Southsea hotel, and, as he subse- quently related, suspected the head waiter of being a Berman.......

Head Man Shock

Sir : It is with much regret that I am telling out newsagent to stop sending me the SPECTATOR. It is tragic that a paper with such long and honourable traditions should have so......

No. 508: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Judging from the entries this week James Joyce's inimitable and intimi- dating prose is not the easiest source material for a Word Game; decidedly tricky......

No. 510: Octet

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight-line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the following five pairs of words as......