12 SEPTEMBER 1968, page 27

If We Had 'the Dibs'

Sir: 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves'; but what of the new pence? The new pennies have yet to acquire a com- mon name and must remain......

The Mcc Scores A Duck

Sir: As one of those moo members who have reacted strongly in support of the effort being made to get our club to do something about the preposterous omission of d'Oliveira (in......

A Moral Primer

Sir: I have read with interest Simon Raven's 'Moral primer for the young.' Apart from the quaint eighteenth century style of his writing. it seems on the whole to make good......

The Swing-doors Of Perception

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS - One of the world's most notorious drug-sodden pop tycoons raised eyebrows privately in Soho this week by admitting that he was in the grip of a new and......

The Operation

Sir: You say it is twenty years since Harold Acton wrote a short story (23 August). Let's hope it is twenty years before he writes another. We don't like gutter press writing.......

The Gold Game

Sir: Please allow me to correct an unfortunate slip in my article last week. In ten years' time the industrial and ornamental uses of gold will take 100 per cent of the present......