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How wonderful of you both to think of my birthday, Lillian and I thank you from our hearts for’ your goodness. I feel dear Hela that you must have drawn the heart on the cover of your joint photographs so clever , and how proud we are to have these two pictures. It is beautiful of you both. I was interviewed by the London - '‘Times" yesterday and I described Arthur's v isit in the black-out - and he has put it in, I hope you do not mind.
How you both get around the world- as if it were a "tuppenny" bus ridel please dear Arthur don't overwork. fe count the days to the spring when you will both be in -England again, «hat a joy it will be for us. and worked with (among others) stein. a friend for more than 50 Robert Skidelsky. the historian; years, flew from Paris to visit the Dr. B. N. Pandey. biographer of Tertises at Wimbledon during the Nehru ; Professor John Erickson, recent black-outs. The bell did not The Times author of the monumental The ring and it was only when a neigh Soviet High Command: Professor bour saw him that his hosts were Alan Walters, of the LSE and roused and gave him tea by Roskill Commission ; Professor candlelight. He also gave Tertis " a Diary Ivor Pearce, the international trade lovely portable stereo.” economist; and Ci hita Ionescu. the It will never be used to play Rumanian expert on east Euro modern music of the twelve-tone, pean • politics. electronic or aleatory kind. As Shaw and Maclean will be act Tertis recently wrote to a friend: Dundee Dandy ing as agents for Pearce and " I would commit these so-called Ionescu. as well as Professor Victor composers to a desert island- not _no comic coup Morgan, the Manchester econo Roy Plomley's, but one from mist. and Trevor Gambling. Pro which there is r.o possibility of fessor of Accounting at Birming escape." years in a f’azi concentration ham—“ who's written a radical and Tertis last played in public when camp, and he had difficulty in find controversial book on accounting he was 87. He says he is " not ing a job he could manage. theory which we are very excited doing badly” for a nonagenarian, Eventually he was employed as a about ”, says Shaw. though lie can no longer'see to read morgue attendant. He wrote to Dr. They use their existing contacts or write, and he hopes to makes at Husak, first secretary of the to fix up meetings with colleagues, least a century. “1 enjoy life so Czechoslovak communist party, usually individually, but occasion much.” saying that he could face this ally in small groups—"rather like gruesome work because he had an academic Tupperware party” done it for some years in Mat hau says a Manchester man—which Stray words sen concentration camp. are followed up privately. They intend to stick mainly to social Lady Cottesloe, whose husband sciences, politics, economics and is chairman of the Battersea Dogs' eastern European studies, and will Home as well as of the committee also offer consultancy services bo which is preparing to review the Dons cash in publishers. ultimate destination of Messrs. Two young editors from Macmil Wildenstein’s costly Velasquez, lans. Michael Shaw and .Mastair has just delivered the manuscript Maclean, have left the publishing of her history of the strays' sanc house to set up a literary agency tuary. entitled Lost. Stolen or specializing solely in academic Heavenly duo Strayed. George Weidcnfeld will Lionel Tertis, the great viola authors. In under three months plaver, is 94 today—like his old publish it next year. they have signed up 60 academics At the same time a newcomer friend the cellisj. Pablo Casals. has been settling in at the Cottes at Manchester. Birmingham. Leeds. "They once alluded to us as the Sheffield and York universities and loe's Hampstead home—Battersea heavenly twins ", ne tells me, “ blit Bouncer, “a sort of Battersea a number of London colleges he is far more heavenly than I am. They hope to get round all the beagle of pigskin shade with suede I remember when we played td- like coat" and. in the words of universities by the end of 1971. gethei before the First War. I Their view is that academics Lady Cottesloe's eighFyear-old played Strauss's Don Quixote, then daughter, "one white sock and have not caught up with the large he had to play Haydn's Cello Con publishing expansion for the three fallen down ". Bouncer is certo in D Major. In the artists’ the second Cotiesloe pet to come post-Robbins university market room he put his hands together and (plus the American and Common from Battersea—the first was a said' ' Pray for me Then he went cat called Aurora. wealth market). “ Until recently on and played like a god. He was only half a dozen publishers were Lady Cottesloe, a breeder of as nervous as a kitten. Tibetan spaniels (" the original interested in the academic market, “ Every time I played I felt as but now most are ”, says Shaw Chinese dogs”) before her mar if 1 were going on the operating riage. says that her researches into *' Academics are still used to feel table. It's oniv the fellow who can ing themselves lucky if they get the Dogs' Home's history were skip all over the fingerboard and much simplified by the work al published—but it is really the other has no heart who is never ready done by a veteran Battersea way round now. They are in the nervous.” keeper. Jack Tyler. Having been bargaining position.” Another musician Tertis working at the home since 1934. Both Shaw, aged 30. and Mac- admires is Artur Rubinstein, whom he had already sifted the old lean. 31. know the university beat he calls "the god of the piano. minute books and press cuttines. they now pound well from their He is the greatest pianist who ever work as editors at Macmillans; lived. The only one who got near both specialized in academic works him was Rachmaninov.” Rubin PHS JUL/ZX JL
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