Mrs World Fiasco
AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Banshee screams of angry recrimination, the slow dissevering rip of sweat-rotted corsets and the monotonous splash of fat women falling into the......
Home Rule For Yorkshire?
Sir: Yorkshire in Britain has sometimes been compared with Texas in America. There is, I think; some truth in the comparison, though scenically our largest county is much......
The Duccio Deal Sir: 'the Duccio Deal' (november 8) Leaves
me, like other writings, still ignorant on the Precise iniquity of dealers' rings. (I am not a dealer, only interested life-long in pictures.) I do not know, either, what is......
Sir: This Is Really A Point For Notes And Queries,
but I think Mr Lennox of Antrim (Letters, 8 November) is in error. My recollection is that prior to 1850 the modern clerical collar was unknown in England. However, in about......
Exit Wilson's Poodle
Sir: I would respect Sir Herbert Merchant more if he himself had a better respect for language. I distrust on principle people who reach for words like psychopath. He accuses me......
Table Talk
Sir: Sir Denis Brogan's long article in your issue of 8 November can be reduced to two simple points. 1. People who are not personally involved in the bitter controversies of......
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