10 NOVEMBER 1961, page 10

New Lamps For Old

By BRIAN INGLIS T HERE was an illuminating tootnote to a letter in. Encounter recently from Murray Kempton, the New York Post columnist, describing how `M,' a British journalist......

Blue Eyes And Yellow Beard

By ULICK O'CONNOR O LIVER St. John Gogarty has described Augustus John as Like a viking who has steered All blue eyes and yellow beard. But when I met the painter in his studio......