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Discretion Is The Better Part

Gilbert Adair PEGGY ASHCROFT by Michael Billington John Murray, .£15.95, pp.312 P eggy Ashcroft's poise was her fortune: it could have been insured at Lloyds for some fabulous......

The Choices Of A Highly Civilised Man

Michael De-la-Noy THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS I imagine the only experience of happi- ness that commands universal recognition is that of falling in love. A Bach cantata is hardly......