The Thirties
Sir: Richard West's `Shanghai'd' (3 Nov- ember) certainly brought back memories of the Thirties. A 21st birthday present: London to Vladivostok by Glen Line — Glenbeg — in......
Letters
`Bethel! is bad people' Sir: Soon after hostilities were over (1945) I was handling a small camp of Russian displaced persons held under casual milit- ary guard on the Via Appia......
Public Asset
Sir: I have read much recently about confrontation between mine workers and their employers and now a Consumers' Council appears to have entered the dis- pute. Surely the time......
Untangled
Sir: Well, anyhow, here it's called witlof and not witloof since the masses took over, and previous to that it was called Brussels lof, and it consists of the leaves of the......
The Grocers' Plight
Sir: A Welsh soldier, Frank Richards, who worked in the mines as a boy, writes in his army memoirs (Old-Soldier Sahib, 1937): I had well passed my fourteenth birthday when the......
Reference Books
Sir: Alan Watkins's snarl at the present foodie cult (Diary, 17 November) may b e justified but please could he keep his fang s out of me? He really shouldn't charge 0 1 with......
Commercial Principles
Sir: You are right to be exasperated by the BBC's failure to grasp the opportunity of carrying advertising (Notes, 24 Novem - ber). But the BBC is not the only institu - tion to......
Men Of The Sixties
Sir: How I agree with my fellow Glaswe- gian Martin Roberts (Letters, 10 Novem- ber) about the influence of university teaching in the 1960s! I am sure that I too, like Colin......
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