24 AUGUST 1956, page 22

Lawn Sowing

Spring or autumn for grass sowing? asks a reader. The advantage of sowing at the tail end of summer is that birds are not quite so short of sources of food as they are in the......

The City-and Suez Shares Set An Example

BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT is worth recording that at no time during the Suez crisis did the Stock Exchange behave as if a war were likely to break out. There was not the......

Mass Escape

of the budgerigars dying of suffocation, had opened his cages and broken his windows to let them escape. I hoped he would be able to recapture some of the survivors, for......

Chess

BY PHI LIDOR No. 64. P. TEU CATE BLACK (6 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Shinkman: Q-Q Kt I I, no......

Company Notes

BY CUSTOS THE revival in the gilt-edged market, which has been the outstanding feature of the Stock Exchange, was overdue. The war scare had died away, the Cyprus news was......