Richard Pennycuick on MTT:

>I've never been able to take this abbreviation seriously: when I was a
>kid, the city bus company was the Metropolitan Transport Trust, with the
>obvious painted on the side of each vehicle.  For the record, is Tilson
>his middle name or part of his surname?

I think it's actually his middle name, but he would like to affect a
British "double-barrelled" one.  To many middle-class Jewish Americans
(like me), Britain represents an El Dorado of Refinement and Good Taste
(we tend to ignore Sidney James and Benny Hill and those mountains of
stale sandwiches in the shop windows).  As long as he's happy.  After
all, Leo Stokes was much happier as Leopold Stokowski.

Steve Schwartz