A Cleese Fan
A Cleese fan Sir: I implore you not to succumb to any of the appeals to dismiss Richard Ingrams from your employ. Bernard Levin and Ronald Harwood are quite able to look after......
[sir: Was It Really Necessary, In My Review...]
Sir: Was it really necessary, in my review which you published last week, for your evidently only part-time proofreaders to insist on altering Shakespeare's words bY changing......
Act Of Settlement
Letters l - Act of Settlement Sir: I do not read history in the way your leading article 'Don't unsettle the Settlement' (2 August) does. If parliamentary sovereignty, which......
[sir: Alastair Forbes May Be Sound On The...]
Arbiter elegantiarum? Sir: Alastair Forbes may be sound on the manner ot referring to the daughters 0s Earls and Marquesses, but can't he do something about his English? I......
[sir: It Must Have Taken You Quite Some...]
Sir: It must have taken you quite some casting around in order to light on a dungbeetle eager to foul the memory of Kenneth Tynan (2 August). But you certainly managed it with......
[sir: Poor Ken Tynan-even His Demise Got...]
Kenneth Tynan Sir: Poor Ken Tynan - even his demise got mixed notices in the dailies and Ronald Duncan's tribute to him in this journal (2 August) could hardly be described as a......
Early Closing
Early closing Sir: It so happened that I read Richard Ingrarns's piece in your 26 July issue just after hearing the new Chairman of BBC Governors deliver a series of......
Escape In Italy
Escape in Italy Sir: I am presently researching escape arid evasion attempts of British and American POWs in Italy during 1 943 and 1 944, and wish to contact former POWs or......
Special Knowledge
Special knowledge Sir: Your correspondent Henry Fairlie is clearly very knowledgable about American politics, but he is. getting altogether too allusive. He tells us (2 August)......