9 MARCH 1985, page 18

For The Record

Letters For the record Sir: The coda of your unsigned Lenten silly season 'profile' (with its solemn 'survivors' euphemism for the expression 'wrinklies' nowadays more often......

Near Miss

Near miss Yet I suppose that if I had not been narrowly missed by the bomb aimed by a low-flying Luftwaffe pilot at Fort Cumberland outside Southsea, which did for the writer......

White Tie

White tie I may well once have mentioned tO someone that there had been one single week in my life, in 1948, when I could recall having had to wear white tie and tails (but not......