23 FEBRUARY 1991, page 40

High Life

Smoke signals Taki J ohn McCone, ex-head of the CIA, cold warrior par excellence and a friend of my father's, was also a good story-teller. While Pope John XXIII lay dying in......

Television

Love and money Martyn Harris A t 102 Boulevard Haussman (BBC 2, 9.05 p.m., Sunday), Marcel Proust is con- fined by illness to his cork-lined room and waited upon by the faithful......