30 NOVEMBER 1974, page 12

Personal Column

Arianna Stassinopoulos Ne w York I am going to set up a Society for the Rehabilitation of Airplanes. For most people they are a bore — a long empty interval between departing......

Gift Of Time

Now back to the rehabilitation. Flying is like bathing — only more so. Those blessed hours when we can ignore the claims of the telephone, the doorbell and the world — • without......

Paper Pundits

Most of the seven-hour flight was spent • wandering through a twenty-square-mile forest that had been turned into the Sunday New York Times. All human life is there — most of......

Compulsive

I hereby append a list of those British journalists who should become compulsory reading — under penalty of death or solitary confinement with their own Collected Works and Wit......