18 NOVEMBER 1989, page 43

Fine Reviewer, Fair Journalist, Poor Editor

Alan Watkins DICK CROSSMAN: A PORTRAIT by Tam Dalyell Weidenfeld & Nicolson, .C14.95, pp. 253 T here is a case for saying that biog- raphers are usually more interesting than......

A Charm Against Amnesia

No name you know reminds you now Of who you are or why you go Alone about your trouble in the snow. Forgetting whom you would forget You have forgotten more than that And lost......