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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,
“... the staff lunch that allowed him to behave as ‘an encyclopedic egoist’, in his colleague Ivor Brown’s phrase, who drank large brandies and smoked big cigars and entertained a loyal audience that included the proprietor, the courtly Waldorf, and writers such as C.A. Lejeune, hired as film critic from the Manchester Guardian, and Joyce Grenfell, who as ... ”