23 FEBRUARY 1962, page 16

Those Advertisements

SIR,—Mr. Roy Brooks's asides in his house adver- tising are becoming tiresome. I do not particularly admire the Sunday Times (largely for reasons implied by your recent......

South Wind Sir,—elizabeth David's Article Delightfully...

she says, it was not his way to give lectures, but one could pick up much valuable information in his company. The first time I met him —dining in Florence with Pino Orioli in,......

Hadn't You Heard?

SIR,-1 enjoy Miss Whitehorn's smart, amusing and intelligent comments, but wish she would not go around with her mind closed. A fortnight ago, writ- ing about rumour and......

Suggestio Falsi

S111,—Though I am not noticeably depressed, it is nice of the Bishop of Grimsby to want to cheer me up. But the obituaries of Professor Tawney that he mentions do not really......

Sir,- As A Long-standing Or, If You Will Forgive A

small joke, long-lying, bronchitic, may I address myself to my fellow sufferers? We are, in a sense, the people who matter in this discussion, and the regular information in the......

Sir, —in Your Issue Of January 26, Mr. A. Charles Buck

objects to Mr. Victor Gordon's comparing aspirin BP and Aspro with Disprin. He states that soluble aspirin is 'more readily absorbed and affords better gastric toleration' than......

Off The Air Sir,—an Acquaintance Recently And Casually...

that the BBC is finding difficulty, and is in many cases unable to engage the most talented of the present-day musical artists. Their contract for- bids them to play or sing for......

Advertising And People Sir,—it Would Contribute Much...

of 'Advertising' if it were not so con- stantly regarded as somehow having an existence quite separate from the rest of our free-enterprise trading system—with take-overs,......

The Breath Of Life

SIR,—I have read with interest the letters you have published in reply to Mr. Gibbs-Smith's article 'The Breath of Life.' I am only interested in facts—not opinions, but in......

Clog-fight

SIR,—Distressed by Mr. Cyril Ray's nostalgic cry that he hasn't 'seen a clog-fight for these more than forty years' I hasten to assure him that only recently a man was kicked to......