Michelangelo And Moore
Sta,—A careful reader of the sentence which has upset Mr. Cooper will find that I was referring, not to poetry nor to architecture nor yet to textile design, but to Mr. Henry......
Bulk Buying
Sint,—Mr. P. J. Wood's idea of what constitutes " proof " of the alleged folly of the system of bulk-buying is peculiar. The U.S. Military Authorities who bought maize in the......
Polish Refugees
Sta,—According to an analysis of Polish military and civilian casualties in the Second World War, ten millions or 28 per cent. of Poland's pre- war population have been killed,......
O.m.s. In The Mines
Sta,—In The Spectator of May 28th the D.P.R. of the Coal Board denies the statement in your previous issue that "less coal per manshift is being produced today than in 1938."......
Lombardy Poplars
Sta,—If Sir William Beach Thomas will consult the well-known book by W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, he will find full information about the Lombardy......
Afrikanders
Sn1,—In Professor Walker's article, Smuts or Malan? in The Spectator frequent reference is made to Afrikanders. I have always understood that this is the name of a species of......
Sta,—while Wandering In A Field Near Here With A Young
officer from the station the other evening I came across about a dozen rabbits along the edge of the field all caught in traps, kicking, squealing and most of them terribly......
Really Necessary?
SIR,—Your comments on the shortage of newsprint prompt me to ask how the Government can justify using posters to popularise trains? Like everything else, travelling......
Sir,—surely Mr. Douglas Cooper Has Misunderstood Mr....
the Michelangelo of our time" is surely a reflection on the times. In short, your art critic meant: "Michelangelo is no Moore."— Yours, &c., R. W. ALSTON. The Watts Gallery,......
Legal Luminaries
Sut,—May a very insignificant member of the legal world ask, with the utmost diffidence, a question or two about the second paragraph in A Spectator's Notebook in your issue of......
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