2 MAY 1969, page 29

Away To The Maypole Hie !

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS As that golden age of the late twentieth cen- tury glowed into its iridescent climax, loud with the insistent thrumming of deep-bellied guitars and the......

No. 549: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: An apposite quote from Belloc's famous weepie, 'Lord Lundy,' indi- cated to readers that the Dear Old Butler who figures in that poem was a figure of......

Chess No. 437

PHILIDOR Black 10 men 11 men L. I. Loshinski and L. 1. Zagoryuko (third prize, USSR 1968). White to play and mate in three moves; solution next week. Solution to no. 436......

No. 551: Lost, Stolen Or Strayed?

COMPETITION It has just been announced that seventeen previ- ously unpublished short stories by the late Somerset Maugham, written over sixty years ago, are to be published in......