Eight Exclusives
Sir: So Peregrine Worsthorne found no- thing in the first issue of the Independent he really wanted to read (Diary, 11 Octo- ber). What Mr Worsthorne chooses to read is, of......
Crayfish
Sir: I am not a vegetarian, food faddist or one of the 'nut-cutlet' brigade so gloriously parodied by George Orwell. Nevertheless, I wonder if other readers were as horrified as......
Sculpted Brollies
Sir: Statues with umbrellas ('Long to rain over us', John Cooke, 11 October). A poem of mine contains the information that there is one just outside Reading of Mr Palmer......
Alexander The Great
Sir: In Mr Chancellor's day someone who didn't know the difference bettween [sic] `refute' and 'deny' (Television, 11 Octo- ber) wouldn't have been employed by the Spectator as......
Jammed Propeller
Sir: Far be it from me, a mere 'slipshod' Times correspondent (Letters, 11 October) to disabuse a well-informed reader of the Spectator, but a jammed propeller seems to have......
Japs'
Sir: Would Jock Bruce-Gardyne (The eco- nomy, 4 October) explain why he finds it necessary continually to refer to the Japanese as `Japs'? Perhaps he means it affectionately.......
Abbreviated
Sir: Please tell Lord Gowrie (Books, 11 October) that DTI is not an acronym. Neither is BL. Alastair Ross 48 Mount Pleasant Road, London W5......
Unlettered Girls
Sir: Francis King asserts that even in the 1940s schoolgirls would have known about `French letters and Dutch caps' (Books, 11 October). I don't know which schoolgirls he was......
Philip Larkin
Sir: Philip Larkin's death at the end of last year was a deep grief to his family, his friends, to other poets and to librarian colleagues. But many who knew him only through......
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