Poor Elsa Maxwell: she had a nasty   tumble towards the end of her en-   terprising career. The world under-   stood (through inn...

The circulation of this page in Germany is heartening, in Poland and the Baltic nations it is rare but very gratify- ing....

    Today my pleasure     with my sparklers       is tem pered by the     crushing fact of     official neglect     o...

On my father's first birthday, his father presented him with a golf club; and today, still, not far from this  desk, his  cl...

    It just had always seemed     too obvious to me, Martin,     that if we were to engage     in other people's cond...

   It would not have    been reasonable    to have held any-    one to account,    even if one could    have predicted ...

  And man, that noble insect, restless man   Whose thoughts scale heaven in its mighty span,   Pours forth his living soul in many a ...

The expedient of the semi- permanent handkerchief, as- sociated as much with hos- pital protocols as it is with Lord Tenn...