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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,
“... Edmund Blunden, L.A.G. Strong and Arthur Bryant; in came A.L. Rowse, Maurice Richardson, Peter Quennell and Nancy Mitford. More important, it was Connolly who introduced Astor to Orwell, who became his friend and mentor, and whose literary style he so admired that new arrivals on the paper were greeted by a circular on green paper setting out ... ”