30 JANUARY 1959, page 30

Sir,—many Of Us, Especially Those Without Friends In The...

Department of the United States Embassy, welcome the news that Graham Greene is under- taking a biography of Mr. John Gordon. However, in view of Mr. Greene's public allegiance......

John Gordon Sus,—i Am Thrilled That Mr. Graham Greene Has

decided to become my Boswell. To have the promise of immortality from a writer of such distinction is the most wonderful thing that has happened to me in all my humdrum life. Of......

Derriere-garde S111,—mr. Bean's Letter Paints A Moving...

concert organisations gallantly strugglin; to perform contemporary music in the face of t :i avant-garde that does nothing but ask for compli- mentary tickets and a public that......

The State And The Arts Sir,—it Seems Wrong Tha.1. The

State should still be buying antique oil paintings when its galleries are already filled to overflowing with such works of art : certainly far in excess of educational......

Litter

SIR,—I have long thought that an undue love of the parenthesis was apt to mislead Taper into writing a disorderly sentence, but I should never have con- sidered him a disorderly......

Clerihews Sitt,—d. R. Peddy, In H111 Report On...

says there were the 'customary few who did not know what a clerihew was' Neither does he!' The three verses submitted by H. A. C. Evans arc not clerihews. My dear old friend E.......

The Middle East

SK—Shortly after reading Michael Adams's interest- ing article on 'Anglo-Egyptian Agreement,' 1 canie across a message front ' The Times Jerusalem corre- spondent about Israeli......

Sir,—taper's Friend Who 'banged Upon The Table . . .

because he can now be fined £5 for throwing down an empty cigarette carton in the street [and] thinks this law is an outrage' is wrong all along the line. MEREDITH WHITTAKER......

`blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat' Sir,—perhaps Sir Winston...

the road to his Xanadu assisted by Theodore Roosevelt, who declared : 'Every man who has in him any real power of joy in battle knows that he feels it when the wolf begins to......