Staff Of Life
From Mrs Joyce Mew Sir: Mr Dixon's truculent attitude (July 15) rather takes away from the high scientific tone.. However, truculence is one thing, misrepresentation quite......
A Forster Cover
Sir: I am naturally delighted by Bookbuyer's prediction (July 15) that the Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster will be "impeccably edited." But if anybody has been " prim " over......
Greasy Joan
Sir: In your issue of July I, Veronica Orme's rather dismal article about restaurant cooking has been given a rather inaccurate title — 'When Greasy Joan doth keel the pot.' The......
Glib Old Gentleman
Sir: The lambasting of Sir Basil Spence, OM by Graham Greene, CH (July 15) appeared a petty case of 'the pot calling the kettle black.' Having, over the years, read a lot of......
The Good Life
The alcoholised ice lolly Pamela Vandyke Price Gastronomically, the British tend to rush to extremes. A combination of asceticism and excess that would have bewildered a......