6 JULY 1985, page 16

Festival Of The Id

Ferdinand Mount on the way the press like tennis stars to remain adolescent Wimbledon AFTER the match, we scuttle away from the crowds through a little iron gate, down a flight......

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Survivors: tireless society diarist I FIRST saw Betty Kenward in 1959 at a dance in Hyde Park Gate. I was a far from reluctant debutante at the time and con- scious that Mrs......

One Hundred Years Ago

AMONG the little-noticed but most important facts in the history of the world is the enormous recent increase in the number of white men in it. . . . Nor is there much reason to......