Looks at golf

Had you, a week or so ago, been taking a sundown stroll through the rolling Bucks verdure with a view, perhaps, to comparing one Chalfont with another or enriching your collection of stockbrokers' house-names, you might have seen, some four or so miles from Amersham, a strange misshapen silhouette blemishing the evening horizon . There on a busty hill it stood, rooted: a gnarled thorn, you might have said to yourself, shrugging; a Saxon barrow, time-tumbled; an extravagant horse-dropping, piled and eroded by the summer wind.

The whole world wilI soon be fit for golfing holidays, reports eminent non-golfer E. S. TURNER

When professional golfer Jimmy Stewart approached bis ball for a second shot at the third hole be found a 10-foot cobra heading for it as weU. He killed it~nly to see another cobra, this time slightly shorter, emerging from the dead snake's jaws! lt met the same fate.

Ln the current row over office conditions, only the tip of the iceberg has been revealed. BASIL BOOTHROYD dives deeper

Sit down, Sir Walter, cries KEITH WATERHOUSE, we serve anybody !