Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Last night at a reception at Berdorf's I saw for the first time in 20 years Harold (now Sir) Evans and though he had aged was as bright as a new penny, as they say. He even recalled Symposia was a bluestocking and that in Chicago he and John Malone tapped us to be part of the literary team for a proposed evening newspaper. The name was to be the Chicago Evening News. En tout cas it must be very difficult for him to have been so eclipsed by his wife; perhaps we should not have brought up a subject he seemed weary of.