Potentially Adult
Sir: Dame Mary Warnock, in a Channel 4 discussion of her Committee's report, re- jected Professor Scarisbrick's statement that a human embryo is a human being. Will she or her......
Respectful Dockers
Sir: What settled the docks dispute was not the lorry drivers' threat of violence (Notes, 28 July) but the dockers' respect for the threat. It did not occur to them to follow......
Letters
Sir John Soane Sir: I feel obliged to comment on the Note provocatively headed 'Soane betrayed' in your issue of 21 July. The Soane Museum, you say, is 'not what it was' because......
Thin Man
Sir: Presumably Paul Johnson has been misled by Hollywood when, in his correc- tive article on Lillian Hellman (The press, 14 July), he refers to the ' "Thin Man" stories'. In......
Soane Danger
Sir: If Soane has been betrayed, so have others. Soane designed the anteroom for the gallery in Chantrey's house to show the latter's models and sculptures. Lady Chan- trey gave......
Hollow
Sir: I thought it particularly hollow for Jeffrey Bernard, friend and confidant of millionaire playboy Taki and associate of the wealthy and influential in all walks of life, to......
Fixxation
Sir: Unlike Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Diary 28 July) I rarely, with the exception of certain politicians, draw amusement at the passing of another human being. Jim Fixx was simply......
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