Est Fugger
Sir: John Harris (Letters, 2 March) is right. It was Bishop Johann Fugger of Augsburg who died of a surfeit of Est! Est! Est! in Montefiascone (12th century). He was buried in......
Letters Cabinet Responsibility
Sir: Tanya Harrod's article on the Badmin- ton Cabinet (Arts, 9 March) only demons- trates again the ambiguous English attitude to objets. The variant of 'The Three Graces' that......
Russian Counterweight
Sir: We can all be in favour of home rule for the Baltic States. But surely within a federal union for Russia is the better option. For one thing they have large Russian......
Blow-dry Bryan
Sir: Charles Moore (Another voice, 23 February) ought to take comfort from the fact, which his rather oblique reference to testosterone hormones confirms, that male baldness is......
Unfairbanks
Sir: Your diarist Craig Brown (16 Febru- ary) suggests that 'there is a splendid opening for a concerned media couple in Fairbanks, Alaska', citing Desmond Wil- cox and Esther......
Spanish Lesson
Sir: Ian Thomson's review of The General in his Labyrinth (Books, 12 January) men- tions that Simon Bolivar was 'cleaning his teeth with a silver-handled silk brush'. It is......
Thanks A Yacht
Sir: Andrew Roberts suggests that Sir Peter de la BilRre should be bought a fine house as a reward for his outstanding success in the Gulf CA Blenheim for de la BilHere', 9......
Fitting The Bill
Sir: Christopher Fildes's Oxford card school (City and Suburban, 2 March) would, I am sure, have included a few sporting lenders to buy the doubtful lowete IOUs at a suitable......
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