17 MARCH 1984, Page 22

Sir_ Mr Stamp has spent name time measuring obituaries than

ens* machos them_ Far from having couple of Clara paragraphs tacked on at are end', Anthony Blunt's obituary is the Timer ('Art historian who spied for the Russians' — 28 March 190) was a apiece of sande editing, with splendid intalocklig passages such as: 'In this perhaps most catraortimary of double lives, his great services to the history of art it this country deserve separate and comprehensive consideration:

I think the West probe that I ever heard of a Times obit was the comment: 'Hum, sniffs of an inside job?

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