4 JANUARY 1957, page 42

014 Immortality

Princeton University, or to be more explicit, Dr. Gerald Eades Bentley of Princeton, says Alistair Cooke, American correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, has found Walton,-......

Country Life

BY IAN NIALL IT is hard indeed to think of anything that aptly marks the New Year in the country, for seasons have no fixed relationship to the calendar. At 'New Year the ranks......

Company Notes

By CUSTOS Tut week started with a fine marking-up on the Stock Exchange of some very select shares. I refer particularly to the electrical-power hares and the oil shares......

Crows By Moonlight

Moonrise last month, at the time of the full moon, hardly gave darkness time to settle, and there was a brighter sky in the hours of night than there had been some afternoons.......

Bean Planting

Broad beans are often sown in October, but it is a good plan to follow up with a second sowing in January to ensure' a continuation of the crop. Beans are sown in double rows,......

Mens Sana In Corpere Sano

Certainly, Lean-shanks, you have forced the pace— In the bath, your body shows it; and you have The right, considering your shrunken hams, To rock 'on that notorious seesaw,......

Chess

A. M. SPARKE (2nd Prize, Good Companions, 1919) BLACK (7 men) WHITE (9 men) WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Hartong:......