16 APRIL 1983, page 21

Home Truths

Sir: After reading Giles Gordon's venomous diatribe against the army in his review of Coming Home (2 April), 1 can on- ly surmise that he suffered some appalling humiliation at......

Another Life

Sir: May 1 suggest some alternative wording for the full page advertisement placed in your journal by LIFE? 'TWO MILLION Women saved from having Unwanted Babies by the 1967......

Birthday Party

Sir: The short response to Richard Osborne's letter (26 March) on whether Deutsche Grammophon should choose Brahms, Webern, Gibbons or Rameau for a centenary splash is: if they......

Off The Rails

Sir: In connection with the Hotel Great Central referred to in Ian Waller's article (26 March), my impression is that this was never a railway hotel in the sense that the Great......

Hundred Metres

Sir: I have been commissioned by Junction Books to edit an anthology of athletic verse: The Poetry of Motion. It will hopefully represent all sports, from soccer to snooker and......

Song Cycle

Sir: While sympathising with Jeffrey Ber- nard over his protracted hospitalisation, one may at least take vicarious pleasure in the refining influence that French music, on......

Sir: As The Regular Contributor Who Writes The Only...

boring and uninfor- mative column in a magazine that otherwise becomes ever more sparkling, Richard In- grams may have much to be modest about. But it seems a pity he should......

Letters

Who's odd Sir: Richard Ingrams is right about Who's Who's astonishingly blinkered editorial Policy (2 April). Dim civil servants, even when long retired, get in simply because......

Mersey Sound

Sir: Congratulations to Richard West (2 April) on his incisive summation of Liver- pool's economic and social difficulties, and in particular, his fearlessness in ascribing......