28 NOVEMBER 1970, page 20

Missed Worlds

Sir: A recent rry 'News at Ten' interview (9 November) of the (white) 'Miss South Africa' and the (coloured) 'Miss Africa South' —although there is no such country —not only......

Blackpool Bracer

Sir: How very kind of Mrs Blane to express a little sympathy for this resort. We do not, of course, have Ozymandias on Shelley or Sodom on The Lots, but I suspect that Blackpool......

Angola

Sir: Has Mr Trevor Bloom ever quite recovered from reading Ballantyne's The Gorilla Hunters or perhaps Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs? To some English people—but to notably few......

The Spectator's New Look

Having had the SPECTATOR for some years, owing to the generosity of a dear friend, I am very pleased with the new look and attitude, which promise full-blooded and ro- bust......

Competition

No. 632: Greetings Set by Timothy Snow: Verses which appear in Christmas and New Year cards are rarely of great literary -merit. SPECTATOR competi- tors might do better and are......