6 OCTOBER 1967, page 7

Myth America

TABLE TALK DENIS BROGAN I'm pleased with the news of the discovery of a runic record of a Norwegian expedition to Oklahoma in the eleventh century. Why it should have gone round......

With Philby In The Foreign Office

SPIES GEOFFREY McDERMOTT In his article on spies last week Geoffrey McDermott referred to Kim Philby as the big- gest fish of the lot . . . undoubtedly Blake's spy- master . . .......