24 MAY 1957, page 25

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`I must apologise for an error 1 inadvertently made in my letter regarding the little heaps of soil in your Hampshire reader's paths,' says a correspondent , who continues, 'The......

Spectator Competition No. 380 Set By Allan M. Laing Many

years ago an ingenious versifier trans- posed the nursery rhyme 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' into scientific jargon, thus: Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific; How can......

Spectator Crossword No. 941

o'er Egypt's dark sea' love' (Yeats) (7). ACROSS 1 Though musical, the German has task at school (7). 5 What a fall for the hairdresser! (7) 9 This writer seems to have......

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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 377 Report by Blossom • The usual prizes were offered for a set of verses (not exceeding a dozen' lines) suitable for publi- cation on May 24 (Empire......