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Postscript

The hero P. J. Kavanagh I saw something so extraordinary the other day that 1 hope not too many people will switch off because it happened at a cricket match. Middlesex were......

Crossword 622

A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 12 September. Entries to: Crossword 622, The Spec- tator, 56 Doughty Street, London WCIN 2LL. 1 2......

Competition

No. 1284: Birds in hiding Set by Jaspisros: You are invited to write 3 piece of plausible and entertaining prose (maximum 150 words) in which the name of 15 birds are hidden.......

No. 1281: The Winners

Report by Jaspistos: Competitors were asked for an extract from the pre - war memoirs of a precocious teenage aesthete, of either sex, at a public or boarding school. ternher.......

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