24 OCTOBER 1981, page 17

Storming The Heights

Sir: I read with pleasure Murray Sayle's article on Gallipoli (10 October) and his evocation of past Australian attitudes to the Anzac tradition. As he brings out, some of the......

Inoffensive Tune

Sir: Origins of `Lillibullero', as Robert Neill in his novel of that name has indicated, are mixed. The words were written by Thomas Wharton, in 1687, a year before the......

Sdpersons

Sir: I find Auberon Waugh's fantasy that the SDP consists mainly of 'bony, garrulous, idiotic women' (17 October) contrary to fact and offensive. I have met no such women at the......

Too Nasty For Words

Sir: A year or two ago your film critic at that time (was it Mr Ackroyd?) wrote the shortest and most pithy review of a film that I have ever read. It was: 'Omen II is worse......

Profit And Culture

Sir: Mr Paul Johnson's hyperbolic tirade against the 'left-wing assertions' of Mr Donald Bull (17 October) was entertaining, especially to those who know Mr Bull, but......

Competition Entry?

Sir: Is Paul Johnson (17 October) making a bid for Sir James Goldsmith's £50,000 prize? David Loshak 164 Burbage Road, London SE21......