Say it with bottles
CITY AND Suburban's reader of the year must be John Goldsmith, who has set a precedent which I hope will be widely followed. My note on the high-interest bank accounts pioneered by Save & Pros- per and Robert Fleming CA run for your money', 20 April) struck a chord with Mr Goldsmith. He had, so he writes to me, long suffered at the hands of his High Street bank where his credit balances earned no interest. Now, he says: 'Thanks to you, I can now look forward to shunting a lively-looking £10,000 into the books' (of a Fleming account) — 'a bottle of cham- pagne awaits your attention,' The poet Dorothy Parker complained of admirers who would send her one perfect rose — 'Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose?' Or one perfect bottle of champagne? But now Mr Goldsmith has shown the way, perhaps this column will come to be infused with a steady bubbling and weekly popping. Or perhaps not; for I have always thought it just as well that financial pontificators are not paid by results.
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