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Am Organising For The Above Charity A Col- Lection Which

will take place on Christmas Eve this year. Young people, from eighteen to fifty. will visit public houses all over London and the suburbs and also in Bristol, Blackpool and......

Patients Association

SIR, — Recent reports on thalidomide babies, wrong patient operations and tests on patients underline the need for an association to represent the interests of patients. A group......

The National Theatre Sin.—before Mr. Andrew Knight...

the sludge of his own verbosity, he might be more explicit about the howls of disappointment arising in Leicestershire over the appointment of a Director to the National......

Cuba And The Press

SIR, — Allow me to thank you most warmly for your recent leading articles on the Cuban situation : such a welcome contrast to the . disgraceful quibbling and cowardice of some......

Bet You Anything

SIR, — I was astonished to find anybody querying my statement that motor insurance is unprofitable. Is Mr. Malbert the sort of man who queries whether Northerners do work harder......

Sir , — In Your 'portrait Of The Week' In Last Week's Issue

you write: '. . . the inadequacy of Indian troops put Mr. Krishna Menon into the political Wilderness.' As this presumably does not refer to the numerical numbers of Indian......

Travel Trade Tricks

Sm,— Congratulations to Leslie Adrian on his ex- c ellent article in your issue of October 26. It is un- doubtedly true that the many reputable organisations in the field of......

Cliche-ridden Sta,—reviewing My Perfectly Splendid...

critic, Mr. Charles Osborne, accuses me of using cliches—and himself, in one short notice, uses the following cliches: 'Flinging oaths' 'with some semblance of `makes me blush .......