17 JULY 1959, Page 22

OUTSIDE THE LAWCOURTS

SIR,—Describing the arrivals outside the Law Courts during the Liberace v. Cassan- dra case, I referred (Spectator, June 19) to the Daily Telegraph shipping correspondent saying, 'I'm a witness, old boy,' and 'punch- ing a photographer in the chest' before he went in to give evidence. The correspondent in question, Mr. J. F. A. Frost, feels that this might be misinterpreted. I thought it was clear from the context that it was a jovial gesture such as might be made by any Fleet Street man, to a colleague. I am sorry if Mr. Frost or any other reader should have thought he was offering violence; of course he was not; and I very much regret that Mr. Frost should have been vexed by what I wrote.—Yours faithfully,

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