27 JUNE 1958, page 31

Company Notes

W ALSALL CONDUITS has experienced an- other successful year in spite of a decline in export sales. The new Chairman, Mr. C. G. Maisey, who succeeds Mr. A. E. Read, who died......

Tortuosity In Rhyme

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 434:. Report by Allan M. Laing Competitors here given examples of far-fetched rhymes by Robert Browning and asked to submit 12 lines (or less) of verse......

Spectator Crossword No. 998

Demand ? Precisely (5). 16 It's so rude to be these (9) ACROSS 1 Old cattle enclosure? It should provide plenty of shade (7) sPortsman who might appear to scale (7) An old-fa......

'fly Twa To Usa' Says The Advertisement (how Does One

fly a TWA, anyway?). A prize of six guineas is offered for eight lines of verse modelled on either Carroll or Lear, on improbable situations suggested by 'words' which are not......

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