27 OCTOBER 1979, page 23

Fun And Games

Paul Ableman Jailbird Kurt Vonnegut (Cape £530) In 1949, Walter F. Starbuck, the fictitious narrator. of Jailbird, is alleged to have been interrogated by a thrusting young......

S.j. Perelman

Benny Green The death of Sidney J.Perelman at the age of 75 marks thc close of a chapter in the bumpy history of written humour. Fortunately for lovers of linguistic slapstick,......