7 JULY 1967, page 32

Sentence Of Death

Sir: It was not my intention to generate corre- spondence when writing previously (Letters, 16 June). It is significant, though, that both your correspondents are surgeons—does......

Sir: As A Day-school Boy Who Has Taught At A

boarding school I support Simon Raven's remarks about education for life. But there was one point about the historic function of the public schools which he missed and which......

Calls Of Love Sir: Christopher Hollis's Observations On...

(16 June) remind me that on my last visit to Marlow, I noted that the plaque on the front of the post office was still there (I always go to see it once again) which reads: The......

Afterthought

JOHN WELLS `In the boardroom,' according to a wonder- fully discreet advertisement for tobacco in the Sunday Times, 'a slow lighting up can be the best answer to a hasty turning......

Sir: Increasing Recognition Of A 'bereavement Syn- Drome'...

workers, clergy and the medical profession is leading to a better understanding of its problems. Death and disease are inescapable facts: the bitterness, despair, grief and......