7 DECEMBER 1996, page 70

High Life

A proud father writes Taki T wenty-one years ago last Saturday, 30 November, I found myself in Palm Beach lolling sybaritically on a beach — actually in a tennis club by the sea......

Low Life

Nothing doing Jeffrey Bernard N ow that we are in December, every- one you meet asks, 'What are you doing for Christmas?' — most of the people I meet anyway. The answer is......