21 MARCH 1970, page 11

Oxford Letter

On a professor & a novellist MERCURIUS OXONIENSIS GOOD BROTHER LONDIN1ENSIS The news that you send me, viz: that your silly London gazette the Times has publickly declared me to......

The Press

Masks off BILL GRUNDY When I was at university there used to be a splendid Professor of Music called, most magically, Humphrey Procter-Gregg. It was a name so exactly right, so......

Agriculture

Farms or follies DENNIS WARREN Dennis Warren is the manager of a 2,500 acre estate in Oxfordshire. 'God gave up making land a long time ago, but he is still making people'. Such......

A Whip's Lament

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS The Government majority at the end of the recent defence debate sank to twenty-one and Mr Mellish, the Chief Whip, com- plained that he wondered whether his......