20 AUGUST 1988, page 51
Afore Ye Go
Leaves from the commonplace book of Wallace Arnold AFTER a most agreeable dinner, with the ladies safely upstairs 'powdering their noses', the talk turned to the subject of......
Switched On
HIS love of `Blackers', as he calls it, has led him to insist that the first annual conference of his charming left-wing think- tank must be held there, among the salt-of-......
Excellent Cigars
`THOROUGHLY enjoyed his last fiction,' announced our host, handing out some excellent cigars. 'Marvellous eccentric old character, based, I suspect, on his father.' 'And what of......