17 FEBRUARY 1990, page 22

Do Not Pass Go

THE latest gloss on the European monet- ary scene reaches me from Florence, where I have an attic flat with five Portuguese young ladies in it. This temporary and businesslike......

Lashed To The Anchor

I HOPE it is now clear to that nice Dr 1 3 45111's admirers here that he is running the German currency to suit the Germans. His fan club tends to miss that point. Thirsty for......

Press Cutting

MY PLEA for a scholar who can date the oldest joke yet seen in the Financial Times diary has been splendidly answered by Mr Q. Gore. He writes: 'I believe it was King Philip of......

A Row In The Club

'LOOK here, Rufie', said Lord Kindersley of Lazards to Lord Bicester of Morgan Grenfell, 'is it too late to stop this business or not?' This fruity morsel of insider burble was......

City And Suburban

Why that nice Dr Pohl wants to bid for the wallpaper CHRISTOPHER FILDES I have an East German five-mark note which I should be delighted to tender to Karl Otto Pohl of the West......

Jock Bruce-gardyne Is On Holiday.

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