17 APRIL 1959, Page 7

THE NEWSPAPERS gave a good coverage to the death of

Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect who was as much legend as man. There is not much to add to what they have said, apart from personal reminiscences of him. For two years I have had a pleasant conversation-stopper for use at cock- tail parties. 'I was with Lloyd Wright,' I say, 'in Shepherds Bush.' And then, if no one stops me, I talk about the evening that ended in a drive with FLW through Earls Court ('nice suicide- tenements you have here') to Lime Grove tele- vision studios ('very pretty, but I see the corridor is inextinguishable').