Guardian of sobriety
Sir: Peregrine Worsthorne (`As I was say- ing', 21 November), in reminiscing about his days on the Daily Telegraph in the 1960s, contrasts the characteristic writing and drinking habits of journalists on that paper with those of journalists on the Manchester Guardian.
Manchester Guardian journalists did not always confine their bons mots to print in the way he suggests. I remember that my father W.P. Crozier (editor 1932-44) used to circulate brief and courteous memos to his young leader writers. Among them was one indicating that he would like to talk to them during the pause in the evening's work before the first edition came up. This ran, `. . . and by at your desk I do not mean in the Thatched House'.
Mary Crozier
Flat 1,
12 Priory Road, Kew Gardens, Surrey
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