Shawcross is full of bile against Harold Evans, but Evans's famous description of how Murdoch combines menace and charm remains unmatched: 'Every editor, and many a politician who deal with Murdoch, thinks that they're the one who is going really to change him They're like a woman who goes out with a womaniser She thinks, 'This time, this time he really meansit. .John can make you smile.'Harold Prince directs Kiss, reunited with Kander and Ebb for the first time since the Sixties when, in their words, 'he invented us', putting them together for Flora the Red Menace, which flopped, and Cabaret, which did not. In a good breeze, under sail, she is still impressive.Nearly 60 years should produce a lifetime of progress and yesterday she met another dark blue-hulled America's Cup contender, Ville de Paris. He commends the structure created by Sir Ron Dearing as 'a model to the rest of the world'.This approach appears to be working.

However, its completion was delayed for many years by Hasluck's diversion into politics.Hasluck was attracted to the renascent Liberal Party led by Robert Menzies, and at the 1949 federal election which brought the Liberals to power for 23 years Hasluck became MP for the safe seat of Curtin. The sale raised pounds 25,000, a figure inflated beyond expectation by Lot 32: Villa's first programme, a 1906 gem was bought by a private collector for pounds 1,000, 10 times more than its estimate and an auction record. FOUR or five years back, fortyish, newly separated and eager for romance and a bit of the other, I decided to dip my toe in the piranha-ridden waters of the singles circuit. Edwardians went to the beach to swim: when they came out, they sat under parasols in their usual generous amount of clothing, not forgetting shoes. The left of the party welcomes the less confrontational approach adopted by Mr Smith towards dissident sections of the party.

BRITAIN'S first female professor of surgery,Averil Mansfield, was appointed 'purely and only on merit', said a statement sent out last week by St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. Their lawyers called only one witness - who accused Mr Daly of espousing violence - and took the rare step of declining to make closing speeches.The convictions were being seen last night as proof of a successful partnership between police and MI5 which, in this case, prevented a major INLA campaign designed to demonstrate their effectiveness to the IRA. 'The attraction is the unknown, the adrenalin.' His accident happened, he said, when he had gone round a bend in the middle of the road and met a car doing the same in the other direction. Strong vertical wings, each decorated by white wooden boxes, and two domed towers make the new pavilion look as though it has been squeezed between the stands.The spacious proportions of a grand Victorian pavilion may have been lost forever, but the architects, who used old roof tiles and the proper terracotta brick, have done as they were asked.. It will call two- day-a-week strikes, the first beginning at noon on Tuesday, 26 July. Set a target of 285, Gloucestershire looked ready to do what most people in the crowd must have felt like on a stifling hot day - curling up and going to sleep.They lay down in the end, beaten by 50 runs.