23 JANUARY 1971, page 28

John Bloom

I get that sinking feeling when I see self-help books like Anthony Sampson's Anatomy of Britain. When they have titles like How 1 made 2,000,000 Dollars on the Stock Market I......

Skinflint's City Diary

There was never a more agreeable way of making a modest accretion of money than through stock market 'pool' operations— which were behind so much of the life in the Australian......

Calling The Bluff

Lord Radnor's Velasquez was bought by Wildenstein's for stock, it was claimed. for £2.3m at a Christie's auction last year subject only to an export licence. I have recently......

Ra'ivvoy Invigoration

The ticket strategy of British Railways, who year after year successfully counter the artifices of the travelling public compels ad- miration. There is a reason behind the ex-......

Clive Gammon

You know what they say about Chinese food. For a short while you feel replete, satisfied. Then an hour or two later you feel hungry again. This was exactly the effect that last......