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Ian Jack: David Astor, 2 June 2016
David Astor: A Life in Print
by Jeremy Lewis.
Cape, 400 pp., £25, March 2016,978 0 224 09090 2 Show More
by Jeremy Lewis.
Cape, 400 pp., £25, March 2016,
“... Britain and France as gangsters. What I remember were the things that made us laugh: the column by Paul Jennings that had a tongue-twister about ‘tuskless rustics eating crustless Ruskets’; the strip cartoon by Jules Feiffer; the witty reviews by Kenneth Tynan of plays that we had next to no chance of seeing; the house adverts by the subversive estate ... ”
