Letters Bbc Integrity
Sir: I was most interested in Paul Johnson's feature 'An Iron Duke for the BBC' in the Spectator (10 October) in which he com- mented on the implications of Mr Duke Hussey......
Football Crazy
Sir: This observation, quoted by Dr G. Gordon CouIton in his Mediaeval Panor- ama, was made in 1366 and is contained in the records of the Halmote Rolls of Durham: Football was......
Sculpted Brollies
Sir: Charlie Chaplin never carried an umbrella in any of his films; why should he need one in Leicester Square? Christopher Webb 27 Park Road, East Molesey, Surrey......
Shag Threat
Sir: I was interested to read in the 13 September issue your quotation of a report of British Association proceedings of Sep.tember 1886. Dr Michael Foster described the......
Grosart
Sir: Let no printer's errors mar Grosart's memory now that P. J. Kavanagh and I have laboured to restore it (Letters, 13 September). Grosart edited and published not 30 but over......
Inflation
Sir: A propos Ferdinand Mount on infla- tion: Germany once had a political head who placed sound money above all else. His name was Heinrich Bruning, Reich Chancellor 1930-1932.......
Archaeopteryx
Sir: Rebuking you for publishing an article with 'so many errors' as mine on the Archaeopteryx ructions, Adrian Berry (4 October) claims that my principal mistake 'is to assume......
Curiosity
Sir: Have you noticed, as I have, the incredible difference between Mr Ronald 'moral outrage'. . . pitcher of spit' Spark of Rottingdean (Letters, 11 October) and old Ronny......