15 OCTOBER 1988, Page 33

There she blows!

Sir: I recall, when living in Italy, being told by someone who claimed to be there on the yacht, in Capri, at the time of the occasion when Betsy Drake (once spouse of Cary Grant) sat down on Onassis's stool, to be boastfully told that it was made from the penis of a whale. She jumped up exclaim- ing, 'Oh, my god, Moby's dick!'

A. H. Richards

42 Clayton Street, Balmain, Australia