Sir: I'm Sure That By Now All Your Readers Have
been made aware that Auberon Waugh is away writing his autobiography. So for the future, could we take it as read? Ludovic Kennedy Ashdown, Avebury, Marlborough, Wiltshire......
Stop Press
Sir: Wallace Arnold. I'm sorry I started this correspondence (a 16-word letter, 4 November 1989). It is now more boring than the man himself. Please stop both. C. A. Bosset......
Sir: George Gale's Memoir Of Our Father, Henry Fairlie,...
several errors in areas where a cub reporter might have had the initiative, and indeed the courtesy, to check the facts. Henry's planned trip across America with a '20-year-old......
Toilet-training
Sir: At my school you disclosed the profes- sion of your father if he were a country clergyman, an admiral or a race-horse owner. But I, traitorously, kept quiet, since my......
Densa?
Sir: I was vastly amused by Dominic Lawson's witty penetration of the arcane trivialities of Mensa (Neils sano in cor- pore sano', 17 February). I am a chess Grandmaster and am......
Sir: It Seems That With The Sad Disappear- Ance Of
Fleet Street as we knew it, other traditions also have vanished. How many times was I told, 'Yes, but dog does not eat dog'? Now, alas, dog is ready to eat even dead dogs. Even......
Narks And Jokes
Sir: If the counter girls in Boots are reporting buyers of large amounts of nail varnish remover ('A nation of narks', 17 February) they are wasting their time. Apart from being......
In Absentia
Sir: The Spectator has been particularly enjoyable in recent weeks. I hope Auberon Waugh has got several more volumes to write. J. A. Falk Clays Farm, 6 The Clay, Easterton,......
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