... income tax will manage to creep in. And, as you know, if you mention the subject of income tax to a street book maker he cocks his head on one side like a budgerigar and wonders what on earth you're talking about. H.M.S. Ark Royal has been fitted with television diffusion equipment which can be used both for opera tional and entertainment purposes. This must present a predicament to the ...

... Sabretache IF we were all lovers of wisdom we would treat winners and losers just the same, and no more about it, and no back answers; but as we have yet to find the fabled Philosopher's Stone, we con tinue to cuss our losses and grouse because we have only had a fiver, instead of a tenner, on that thing that won running away at Kempton, Newmarket, Newbury, Plumpton and what-not last Saturday. ...

... Do I imagine that the sweet course is coming into its own again, or is it because I myself am a little more interested in it? Perhaps men who, for the most part, are fond of sweets (and not generally concerned with figure problems) are responsible? When eggs are at their best, as they are now, I like to make Crime Renversee au Caramel which, in most restaurants, is shortened to Creme Caramel. ...

... Cyril Ray TRAFALGAR DAY is on Sunday, and each year as it comes round I recall that on that same day in 1941, I was sent by my paper to write a brief paragraph about the wreaths that had been laid on Nelson's column. Among them was a circle of laurels placed there by the daughter of Admiral Sir James Plum- ridge, who had been a sub-lieutenant in H.M.S. Defence at the Battle of Trafalgar. It ...