Sir: In The Spectator feature on Paul Getty Jr, Taki
is quoted to the effect that the great philanthropist and new proprietor of Wisden is, inter alia, 'boring and anti-capi- talist'. Those of us who actually know Mr Getty agree that, although he has been munificently charitable towards many caus- es in his country of adoption, his political views are to the right of those embraced by his friend Lady Thatcher. Taki is your resi- dent millionaire memorialist and he knows that one must be careful in judging the very rich to be boring. They just have a shorter attention span when they are bored. Taki's great friend, Gianni Agnelli, is certainly not boring, but all his friends will have observed that glazed and wandering eye of his when he has lost interest in his sur- roundings. I even know a famous Greek millionaire journalist who often pretends to be speechless with drink when in fact he is just too polite to say that he is bored.
Claus von Bulow
109 Onslow Square, Lone on SW7
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