Sir,—i Am Sorry That My Factual Report In Your Columns
about my experiences in the theatre world should have made Mr. Raphael puke, i.e. `to eject food from the stomach; to vomit' (Oxford Did.). I doubt whether his hope that my......
Puffs Direct
SIR,—It is even worse than you may think. Some of these pre-publication puffs, 1 am assured, are obtained for cash. In view of the worthless if not actually poisonous content,......
Sir,—the Questions Asked By Professor H. Seton- Watson...
Peter Wiles about the BBC's Russian Service have rightly evoked keen interest. Notwithstanding the present political and military stalemate, the Kremlin misses no opportunity to......
Civil Liberties
SIR,—A civil liberty body, by virtue of the fact that it must be opposed to all forms of discrimination in the area covered by its terms of reference, cannot itself make......
Tranquillisers Sta,—the Regulations Concerning The...
mentioned by Pharos this week, cannot be 'ridiculously lax' because regulations are non-existent. The important point raised by suggested regula- tion of tranquillisers is......
Cigarettes And Cancer
SIR,—Brian Inglis's reference to the modern stress theory of disease as American is not correct. It will be found in the books of my brother—F. Matthias Alexander—who was not......
Cheese-paring
SIR,—Mr. Amis in his review of the late Norman Cameron's poems castigates us as publishers, saying that our 'way of cramming two unrelated poems on to a page is cheese-paring of......
Breaking Down The Fences
SIR,—The Rector of Beaumont's objection is valid only in its extreme form. No time-table permit any boy to choose any combination of sixth form subjects that he pleases. On the......
Nuclear Horror
Sig,—A letter which appears in the Spectator over the name of Austin Lee deplores what he considers the horror of pigs being used by Americans in nuclear device tests. It seems......
Sir,—miss Tennyson Jesse Writes : 'all Father Joseph Said To
comfort Mrs. Probert was that her son did not strike him as a man who would commit a murder.' If he did say such a thing, Miss Jesse must realise that he was saying a good deal.......
Hong Kong Sm,—mr. George Edinger Says That In Hong Kong
last October 'the Green Howards fired on the popu- lation.' This is balderdash. The Green Howards, along with other units of the garrison, were called in on October 11 to help......