4 OCTOBER 1969, page 11

Medicine

Boned wonders JOHN ROWAN WILSON I once knew a man who had chronic back- ache. He had had every kind of treatment over a period of years, but it did him no good. He was bent......

The Press

Two cheers BILL GRUNDY 'Modified rapture!' as some Gilbertian character once said. I refer to the fact that Mr Rupert Murdoch's bid for the Sun might come off. The unions are......

A Hundred Years Ago From The 'spectator', 2 October 1869—the

Chancellor of the Exchequer, we are told, is devoting part of his vacation to active exercise on the velocipede or bicycle, It is a very characteristic amusement. The velocipede......