21 OCTOBER 1949, Page 5

My memory only fires on one or two cylinders. Hence

my capacity to remember the appearance of Kipling's "Absent Minded Beggar," coupled with incapacity to remember who it was that set the poem to music. I am told it was Sir Arthur Sullivan. I am told also (all this information I g,ratcfully acknowledge) that thc sheet containing the poem was published by the Daily Mail.

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