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Kennedy’s warm glow

Modifications of a venerable Latin textbook
The Times
The Times

Sir, The full modification of that venerable Latin textbook (letter, June 12) was “The Shorter Way of Eating Prime Beef”, penned lovingly with a chewed-off wooden-handled, nib writing implement dipped in the desk inkwell.

Michael Engelbach

London SW13

Sir, I know not to which school Brian Eastty went, but at my school in the 1930s he would certainly have finished up with a warm glow, but not of the nostalgic variety, for defacing the cover of his Kennedy.

Dr Georges Ware

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