29 NOVEMBER 1968, page 31

Sagging London

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Ask any Londoner today, hunched in his utility overcoat on the corner of some windy, garbage- littered street in this crisis-racked, austerity- ridden......

No. 527: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: Competitors were invi4ed to construct an intelligible and preferably witty piece of prose around ten words chosen from the opening passages of a well-known......

No. 529: Octet

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to compose an eight- line poem or stanza of a poem on any one of the subjects given below, using four of the fol- lowing five pairs of words......

Chess No. 415

PHILIDOR Black 10 men 10 men H. D'O. Bernard (Newark Evening News. 1933): White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 414 (Velikoslayski): K - Q......