... In spite of the unpleasant queries as to whether I should keep my Miss World title or not, after the Mecca contest, I would like to say how grateful I am for the publi city incurred. The newspaper stories certainly made clear that it was my agent Pat Larthe who had trained me and was handling my acting career. Since then exciting jobs have flowed in. I am delighted and thrilled at having ...

... Th i hope drug As t one-time active member of Ale holies Anonymous, I was inte ested in the letter of Alcoholic Ani nymous (15 Jan.). Anyone wht has had any experience o alc ...

... When I was in Majorca re cently I stayed in an hotel where a group of typical Eng lish ladies were staying. I noticed that they glanced at me and muttered among them selves. Then one lady plucked up courage, came across to me and asked: You are one of the train robbers, aren't you? I could not resist it, so told her that I was. She was highly de lighted Eric Yorke, The 3 Monarchs, The Cliffs ...

... I am a foreign visitor in London and have found that, wherever I go, I see hundreds of pigeons. All the ones I see are either flying or sitting on the shoulders of the tourists. These beautiful birds cannot live for ever, so where do they go to die? Is there a pigeon graveyard like there are ele phant ones? Suzy Mapwepwe, Ifield Road, W14 ...

... One night last week the BBC 12.30 am weather flash went like this: Sea area Lundy easterly gale now ceased. Westerly gale, force 8, imminent. I wonder what happens when these two gales meet. Or is it the same gale that's gone into reverse? Keith St John, Hampstead, NW3 ...

... The brothers Winters (6 Aug) may not have noticed it, but my fellow motorists are already attempting to build up the road fund to the tune of £17 10s each per annum. C Stevens, Ainsdale Close, Worthing. ...

... It's high time that somebody came out in support of John Lennon and his remarks to Maureen Cleave. Surely he has only had the courage to say something that everybody, including our clergy, has known for a long time? Millions of kids wait in pour ing rain for hours for a glimpse of the Beatles, but how many bother to walk the few hundred yards to their church on Sunday? Surely John Lennon, as a ...

... I was interested to read the feature on car numbers, as I have often tried to get various numbers for clients. Bob Monkhouse recently tried to obtain BOB 1, or failing this, 1 BOB, but found that both numbers were used by Mr Bob Charlesworth, a managing director from Birmingham. Mr Charlesworth refused to sell, not because of the money, but because he said they meant more to him than cash. I ...

... One of the current de ghts of chic swinging London the spate of exciting new res taurants, trattorias, bi ros, kebab houses etc, spri ging up. The English, one so indifferent to food, now eagerly pounce on and publicise them, so su -ess- fully that the prices so up and in no time you can et a table without booking! hen I find a good place I cer inly do not inform anyone. A; east I can still ...

... OUR TENNIS EETTER. MY DEAR TATLER,-- I should think that the French nation will give a wonderful welcome to their boy champions when they return from their victorious visit to the States this autumn. Certainly they have every reason to be immensely proud of them, for their play in the Men's Singles Championships of America has been little less than marvellous. 1 say their play, because ...

... OVWL TEMKflS) ILETTEEL MY DEAR TATLER, This letter will be all Wimbledon, I'm afraid, for I've been nowhere else for the past week, and have lived in nothing fbut a .lawn tennis atmosphere the entire time. I don't think I have ever seen a keener crowd than the twenty-two thousand people who flooded Wimbledon for the Suzanne -Ryan match in the early part of the week. Of course, even the vast ...

... . A/T y Dear Tatler, This week's chief lawn-tennis event in London, as far as the juniors a'.e concerned, has been that very interesting fixture, the schoolgirls' tournament at Queen's Club. Although this is only its second meeting, there is no doubt that this comparatively new inno vation has taken firm hold in the matter of popularity, for there are very nearly twice as many competitors as ...