23 FEBRUARY 1962, page 25

Grandest Hotel

'I HAVE not had a clear and fixed ambition. I began to write novels because my friends said 1 could. The same for plays. But I always had a strong feeling for journalism, which......

What The Caterpillar Saw

`HER colouring with its glint of reddish hair is not unlike the most well-known studies of Whistler's white-girl symphonies.' The reference is to the lady in Fragonard's The......