7 MAY 1965, page 20

The Small Genius

MILLIONAIRES and geniuses fascinate me. I was once friendly with an American millionaire who had been persuaded to dispose of most of his fortune in his own lifetime and who......

Dispersal

I have given away the last roses. The days are drained of light like roses blowing too late, without the strength for colour, dead in a crib of dry leaves. Take it that I have......

Blood And Guts

Before the Colours Fade. By Fred Ayer. (Cassell, 25s.) GENERALS are often queer fish, and among the queerest of them was the late General George S. Patton; in this portrait of......