29 SEPTEMBER 1973, page 16

Time And Sympathy

Beverley Nichols The Strenuous Years Cecil Beaton (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £3.50) On her small French bed lay a strange object of art. A minute bird-like head, wrapped in a......

The Scent Of Success

Quentin Bell Chanel Solitaire Claude Baillen translated by Barbara Bray (Collins £2.50) There have been greater artists in our time — although hers was not a talent to be......