16 APRIL 1965, Page 5

Business Lunch

Oh weary, weary grinds the crunch Of business chairmen chewing lunch.

Though all must come to lunch, one finds They are of two distinctive kinds.

Bright, laughing, red of face are these Whose clients come from overseas,

For they can charge the whole amount,

Unblushing, to Expense Account.

But what a different sight are those,

So gauntly paying through the nose For guests who own no domicile Outside the confines of this isle.

Yet even they contrive to munch

A tolerably substantial lunch.

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS