19 JULY 1963, Page 14

BIOGRAPHY TRAVESTIED Stu,—After reading Mr. Jack Fishman's answer to Mr.

Randolph Churchill's review of his book, My Darling Clementine, I took the trouble to check at my local library some of the references quoted in his reply. They are certainly accurate and irrefutable.

In the correspondence that followed Mr. Churchill's original article, I particularly recall a letter from a Mr. Hindle, a lecturer at a Bedford college, who declared that he would urge his students to read the article 'as a valuable corrective to a dangerous tendency in modern publishing.' Mr. Hindle, it now seems, was a little quick to pronounce sentence. Will he now, as a fair-mindegl lecturer should, urge his students to read Mr. Fishman's devastating reply as a valuable corrective to a dangerous tendency in modern reviewing?