26 JULY 1957, Page 14

PUFFS DIRECT

SIR,—It is even worse than you may think. Some of these pre-publication puffs, 1 am assured, are obtained for cash. In view of the worthless if not actually poisonous content, as revealed by dissection, of many of these fungoid specimens, may I suggest that in future they be identified as puff-balls?—Yours faithfully, GERALD BARRY 14 Tufton Court, Tufton Street, SW!