Compan Y Notes
BY CU STOS WHAT goes up with a rush generally comes down with a rush in the stock markets. Booming oil shares, which had risen on the average 50 per cent. this year, had been......
Arranging Flowers A Useful Tip About The Care Of Flowers
comes from a Canadian reader who remarks, 'Yester- day I was reading your article about cowslips and wondered if you knew the trick of im- mersing the stems in boiling water to......
Chesschatology
There is no more pernicious heresy in chess than the view that the end-game is dull; sour players even carry it to the extent of regarding it as unsporting to exchange......
Wild Geese 'what About Wild Geese?' Asks A Friend Who
writes in reply to my modest list of birds heard in the night. I can't think how I could have forgotten geese, for I spent a good part of my childhood in a place that was on......
Mulching
Mulching often means the difference between a good crop of beans or peas and a poor one' The application of a mulch in midsummer keeps the soil moist and feeds the plants If an......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL A BAD storm several days ago caused flooding once again in the valley of our local river. This happens several times in a year and the people who live in the......
Chess
BY PHIL1DOR No. 61.A. ELLERMAN BLACK (10 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week' Q-Kt 3, threat P-Kt 3. 1 Q-B 3; 2 Q-K 3. 1 Q-B 4; 2 Q-Kt 3. Note thematic......
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