28 MARCH 1958, page 12

Twelfth Man On Everest

By STRIX TN the Spectator of April 17, 1953, the clair- voyant Strix wrote : 'If Everest is climbed this year the sumtnit is likely to be reached some time towards the end of......

The Price Of Port

By CYRIL RAY T was a wine-bar we were in, King's Cross way, I but the faded and rather floppily-constructed blonde who sat herself down with a sigh, com- plaining that at the......