12 JULY 1986, page 23

Beauty, Brains And Banks

SHAW, pressing his advances on Mrs Patrick Campbell, urged her to imagine a child with her beauty and his brains. Mrs Campbell backed away: 'But supposing, Shaw, it had your......

Floor Show

TUESDAY will offer the last chance to tread the Stock Exchange's historic floor, before all goes skyward in the Big Bang. Making its contribution to the City of London Festival,......

Room With A View

MY SELF-IMPOSED vow, to stop teasing Lloyd's of London about its technological new buildings, has been cracked by a notice passed to me by a friend in the market. It is headed......

City And Suburban

Pearson's chief can see more cavalry where Custer comes from CHRISTOPHER FILD ES L ord Blakenham, staring out from the besieged encampments of the Pearson group, must have been......

Planning Blight

THE planners of the Corporation of the City of London are running down to form. They have this week blessed the plan to tack on a new top storey above the Royal Exchange. They......