30 JANUARY 1993, Page 27

There is an alternative

Sir: About four months ago, one of your correspondents reported the existence of a town in the state of Wyoming (USA) with the unusual name of Maggie's Nipples. Information from the Tourist Bureau of Wyoming reveals that Maggie's Nipples is not the name of a town but of 'two sharp- pointed hills in Carbon County named by cowboys for Maggie Baggs'. For the com- fort of disappointed Thatcherites, we do have a town in the state of North Carolina by the name of Maggie Valley.

William R. Tyson

P 0 Box 1054, Aiken, S.C. 29802, USA