28 MARCH 1992, page 48

High Life

Loser takes all Taki B ack in the good old days when I gam- bled to make ends meet, losing had certain consolations. For example, girls — women, rather. Any big loser in any......

Long Life

An act of unselfishness Nigel Nicolson O n every 28 March I think of Virginia Woolf, why she drowned herself in the Sus- sex Ouse on that day in 1941 and why she chose that......

Low Life

Survival of the unfittest Jeffrey Bernard I don't think I would have had the opera- tion had I known beforehand just what it would entail. Before I went into hospital I was......