1 FEBRUARY 1997, page 24

Pictures In The Hall

MOST bankers (says the poet Ogden Nash) dwell in marble halls, Which they do to encourage deposits and discourage with- drawals. Now that they have got plenty of money and would......

The Patriot's Reward

YEAR by year in BZW's pages I follow the piteous fate of the soldier who, returning from the wars in 1945, patriotically lent his gratuity back to the government. He invest- ed......

Trendy

TRY this way of thinking on Barclays de Zoete Wedd and you find that they see no trouble with prosperity at all. In fact, they rather enjoy it. Their annual Equity-Gilt Study,......

Ein? Nein

I RESPOND with apprehension to the Deutsche Bank's new advertising slogan: `EM Europa, eine Bank — Deutsche'. Uber alles, I suppose. Or alles except the insubor- dinate Nicola......

City And Suburban

As between Goldilocks and the three bears, I'm on the side of the bears CHRISTOPHER FILDES B oston ladies of a certain age complain about the modern thunderstorm. It does not,......

My Kind Of Yacht

I DO not care for yachts, finding them draughty and ineffectually plumbed, but for Britannia I make an exception. She is my kind of yacht. I last boarded her in New York......