17 NOVEMBER 1990, page 30

If Symptoms Persist...

I AM often surprised by the number of people who reveal later in life that they wanted to be doctors. Instead of express- ing gratitude and relief at their lucky escape, a......

Lawrence Durrell

Patrick Leigh Fermor remembers the writer, who died last week ABOUT 40 years ago I heard Larry Durrell describing someone as `a man who pumped the oxygen back into the air'. It......