`i've Got A Nice Wife, Too!'
On another occasion I came out of the Daily Express office and saw a taxi with its door open and Brendan inside, obviously drunk. The reporter he was with was coming into the......
Pyjamaed To Paris
In the morning, very early, he put his trousers and jacket on top of my py- jamas—his own shirt and vest and pants being in the washing-machine, and took a taxi to London......
The Smartest Fellow In The Easter Parade
I was having a suit fitted. There was a knock on the door and the fitter went away to answer it. I heard him talking to a youth v ith an unbroken voice. telling him, nicely......
A Dozen Miniatures
Earlier, during the better times, when Bren- dan and Beatrice had rented a peat-burning Connemara cottage, I went to see him, meeting them off the Arran boat, they hav- ing had......
Boo To The Geese
The Stansted campaigners won more than their own campaign. in fact : they won the campaign for all inland sites for a third Lon- don airport. When the chips were down, only the......
The Spectator's Notebook
Whatever the Treasury may have thought about expense, however fiercely the Depart- ment of Trade may have argued for an inland site, it has become clear that neither the Commons......
The Real Behan
Dan Farson's laborious and rather sloppy account of Brendan Behan on TV last Sun- day. came closest to the man when his wife. Beatrice. was talking. She speaks a clear and......
Rosary For A Reporter
It was at this time that a woman reporter from London, dressed doubtless smartly by Fleet .Street standards but looking like a ludicrous tart in Connemara. tracked him down.......
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