FROM HERE AND THERE

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32613, 22 May 1971, Page 10

FROM HERE AND THERE

Law’s long arm After nearly 46 years, Professor A. L. Goodhart is giving up the editorship of the "Law Quarterly Review," London, the principal law journal, which circulates, in modest enough numbers but with weighty influence, among more scholarly-inclined legal men. He 4s not, he says'very briskly, severing his associations, but at 80 he thinks he should do slightly less work. So he has become Editor-in-Chfef. His assistant editor, Paul Baker, a Chancery barrister at Lincoln's Inn, takes over as editor. Editorial content and policy will remain the same. Goodhart has always been an academic lawyer—he was Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford —and his successor as a practising one, so some shift in approach might have happened. “There will be no change at all,” Goodhart says. “At least, I hope not” Professor Goodhart is probably the last in the British tradition of long editorships. Sir Bruce Ingram was editor of the “Illustrated London News,” for instance, for more than 60 years. C. P. Scott started editing the “Manchester Guardian” in 1872 and lasted until 1929. Edward Segrave, who died the other day, edited "The Bookseller” for nearly 40 years. J. L. Garvin edited “The Observer” for 34 years. Before Goodhart, Sir Frederick Pollock edited the “Law Quarterly Review” for 43 years. Goodhart says he wants to stay at the Review until he’s been there for 50 years. After that he intends to return to America, where he was bom, for good. Out of love Erich Segal has taken a term’s leave from his Yale Classics chair. Not because of the millions he’s made from “Love Story,’ but because he can’t face his students. His classes have tripled to 600 since his oid-fashioned romance brought fame and fortune, but not al! have come to worship. “I’ve had enough bad press that it’s seeping in and eroding the goodwill of my classes," Segal says. “The slick publications weren’t satisfied with attacking my writing. They impugned my personal integrity. I have to go back in the classroom. When my students read that I’m venal and mercenary and Machiavellian, it affects my classes.” Sic transit . , . Rugby-cricket Rugby School, Warwickshire, has been warned to expect more than a few American visitors this summer, intent on finding out about cricket. Yes, cricket The British Tourist Authority has been tunning a series of ads in American papers to tempt summer visitors to Britain with delights like visits to Stratford-upon-Avon Royal Shakespeare Theatre (“Hear your native language at its most glorious”) and Oxford (Invite some gowned Oxford University students for a lunchtime beer). And cricket. “Learn the mysteries of cricket from the boys at the famous Rugby School.” (Cricket, they explain, is like American baseball, but with better manners. Never boo a bad performance—just call out “Bad luck!” or “Well tried!”)

About-turn According to "Newsweek,” Eastern Europe’s Comecon nations have decided to train advertising specialists and intensify their advertising campaigns so as to compete more effectively with the West Overlooked, apparently, is the Soviet Encyclopaedia’s 1941 definition of advertising: "A means of swindling the people and of foisting upon them goods frequently useless or of dubious value.” Alliteration MacMillans, who published “The Age of Affluence” on the politics of the fifties, are planning another alliterative volume on the politics of the sixties. The book is edited by Chris Cook and David McKie, who did the “Guardian” Panther guide to the general election. The contributors include Alan Watkins, on the Labour and Conservative Parties, and Roy Hattersley on the politics of immigration. The title of the book is “Decade of Disillusion.” The Ahab show In London they are advertising a mobile discotheque service called Moby Disc. Presumably a whale of a time is had by all. Pike It would seem difficult to sustain interest over more than 300 pages in so unattractive a fish as the pike, yet in "Pike” (Macdonald) Fred Buller does it in a wonderfully old-fashioned book that deals With pike anatomy, pike psychology, pike famous is history, pike sex life, pike in North America and, above all, how to catch them and successfully land them and some of the great fishermen who did. All praise is good At Foyles lunch to mark Gollancz’s publication of his "In My Way,’’ Lord George-Brown said his five-year-old grand-daughter, Rachel, studied several pages of the book and asked: “Did you write all that yourself, Grandpa?” Proudly, he replied, that he had. After a pause Rachel said thoughtfully: “It’s very neat”