Sig.-may I Suggest As A Whitsun Present You Should Consider
the recording by Noel Rawsthorne on Liverpool Cathedral Organ in the HMV Cathedral Organ series? This would: (a.) provide an excellent test for Mr Heath's stereo equipment; (b)......
Stabat Mater
SIR,-12 is interesting to realise from references in your columns that Rossini's Stabat Mater is exerting once again its 'riveting grip.' Fifty or sixty years ago it was a great......
In Defence Of Oxbridge St R,--as A Redbrick Arts Student
who has read Bryan Wilson's defence of Oxbridge, I have to admit that he underlines a dismal truth. Oxbridge seems to have a healthier academic attitude than Redbriek. After......
Homo Bureaucraticus
Sig.-Terence Bendixson's excellent suggestion (April 15) of building offices around courtyards with windowless walls (or possibly double-glazed win- dows) overlooking heavily......
Faugh, By Strix
SIR, -If Mr Pine would have his readers believe that. he knows anything whatever about shooting he halt better avoid such phrases as 'leading shooters.' ROBERT HARTMAN' Pedor's......
Holy Wars?
SIR,-Mr C. B. Cox writes of Dr Leavis's Wars.' Will he kindly supply readers of the srecrmeai with details of the causes to which he alludes and. say why he finds them so......
Smoked Out
SIR,-Leslie Adrian (April 15) might find it interestiak to ask the Tobacco Research Council this ques- . tion : 'If it is the residual sugar of the flue -etiriak peCuliar to......
Sir,--i Have Read And Enjoyed Strix For Years. Clearly' He
is a man of intelligence, integrity and a kindly' nature. I am unable to reconcile this with the pleastini' he apparently derives from an obsessional staugliter. of small birds.......
The Scandal Of Parkhurst Jail
SIR.-Such hissing and shrieking from Mr Wheatley and others! Apart from Miss Lahr, whose imprison- ment was apparently .brief, nobody seems to have actually been in jail. I have......
Solution To Crossword No. 1218 Across.-i Buffers. 5...
Saracen. 10 Rapallo. 11 Cut up rough. 12 Hour. 13. RHA. 14 Spelling-bee. 17 Queensferry. 19 Nod. 20 Eden. 22 Elbow-chair. 26 Testate. 27 Mattock. 28 Dinmont. 29 Ringers. DOWN.-1......
Spectator Crossword No. 1219
ACROSS 1. Talking point? (10) 6. Hold this case (4) 10. 'The world's great age begins anew, The golden - return' (Shelley) (5) 11. It would seem not to exist, its unimportant......
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