... In a feature called lew Faces, you said that All I i ght Stars by Thorn Keyes ha 1 hit the bookstands. In fact, this is one of our major novel for the Autumn and we sha i be publishing it on 5 Septen ber. John He ner, W. H. Allen t Co. London, WC2 ...

... I do not think that Alfred Hitchcock can possibly be in a position to state that Eng lish women must be the worst cooks. Perhaps the ones he has had the misfortune to meet and dine with, but there are a lot of English women who are expert cooks. Why should they all be branded? How can he possibly know about us all? What non sense. And anyway, nobody in their right mind would go into a ...

... What a disappointment To find in your 16 April issue a wonderfully clear, large photo graph of one of the Doctor Zhivago cast -but of the wrong person. Week after week I hastily and hopefully devour the contents of your magazine, always sighing and regretfully storing it away or passing it on to some other pro-Briton in my office. And week after week, I wonder how you can write so much about ...

... Re your article in London Life of 23 April, I am the mess on page 17. I do not think much of the article, but I think it is a terrific photograph, com- Dliments to the photographer. Peter Turlev. Barons Court ...

... In show business, it's con sidered bad luck to whistle in a dressing room and some artists are superstitious about using a room that has had messages scrawled in make-up on the mirrors. It is an ill- omen to me if someone in the rehearsal room sits knitting. This stems from having twice had bad luck this way. Nowadays I am inclined to feel that I would like, in any contract I sign: No ...

... Back in the States I have heard a lot about the fall in the standard of behaviour of the kids in England. This couldn't be more untrue. The other night after I'd been coaching Hackney mission hall kids, trying to give some help on their boxing, I was really moved when they all came forward as I was leav ing, the smallest saying: Please sir, is it in order if we mav each shake vour hand before ...

... Life in London would be pleasanter for the revival of the pre-war cult of the silent sports car. I have often looked out of the window in the early hours of the morn ing, expecting to see some in teresting 12-litre Edwardian monster, only to see a minu scule modern sports-car driven by an emasculated youth and with a straight- through so-called silencer. I once owned a 40/50 hp Rolls Phantom ...

... T.pt rlnwn What's the biggest let down in London for visitors? Un doubtedly the ever-open Post Office in Trafalgar Square. Last Saturday night I was one of 59 people mostly foreign visitors to be served by three counter clerks. After a few minutes one of the clerks said I'm off! And off he went, leaving a queue of about 20, who then had to join the ends of the two other queues. One elderly ...

... I am alarmed to read that French motorists can be let loose on our roads, for a year, without any British test initially. As one who bears his Paris driving scars as bravely as the tortuous memory makes possible, I would like to offer my own humble suggestion. Send all French drivers in England back to their own country at once. When they return, let's have an enormous fair-ground dodgem booth ...

... With the present seamen's strike going on, my worst sus picions are confirmed about the British. We have this ter rible cap-touching attitude of always supporting the win ning side, authority and the powers-that-be. Most of them don't know a ship from a brown ale, yet they are angry with the sailors and agree with the Shipping Federation which has always got on fine, thank you very much. Even ...

... Now we are taking some kind of action over the many drivers on our highways and we all run the risk of blowing into breathalyzers at any moment during our driv ing, might we not step up the pressure a little by making our police controls on the roads a little less conspicuous. Bad man ners in these circumstances can be just as lethal as alcohol. I consider myself a considerate and careful ...

... As a recovered alcoholic w ia would I like to see happen ii 1966? I would like to see th general public realize that alee holism is a disease just as much diabetes, cancer or arthritis ai diseases and that it must b treated as such. I would like to see the whol; medical profession and their ancil laries accept it as an illness and not as hopeless cases of drunken ness. I would like to see the ...