25 JUNE 1965, Page 16

Moments of Truth

SIR,—Thanks to you and the editor of another august journal, this looks like being a splendid week- end for the famous old Italian sport of I Tori.

The film correspondent of the Times Educational Supplement this week (page 1902) perpetrated the delightful hybrid afficionadi. But even choicer was your Mr. Booker's phrase 'what Hemingway would have called ii pulite de verdad.' The dropped name gives this a special bouquet. As Gertrude Steinbeck would have said: 'Maybe Ernest was a mite shaky on the spelling, but he did know the difference be-