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chosen man
London, England, the two huge Agures to of Earth and Water on the Air
Gardens all are his. Ministry building in Whitehall
write the official bio graphy of King George VI told me: "I can't say when it will be finished.
"I suppos It will be a few
years yet..."
Mr Jotun Wheeler-Bennett. 52-year-old historian, was chosen by the Queen for the job in 1953.
Threo
years
ago....I reasoned he must have nearly Anished.
But So I rang him. he told me he still does not see the end of the work in sight.
And on Tower Hill Is the impressive Merchant Navy memorial the queen unveiled last year.
wife." and
Ho 18 inarried--his Muriol, is
painter sculptor-und has A son and daughter, He lives in Surrey, has a studio in Chelsea,
Fliteen months Ago Mr Wheeler
the
ISLAND CHRISTMAS
There were Chinese opera, brandy, octopus-
By JAMES WICKENDEN
-and opium!
which appeared to be a preparation
rare
of chicken, tam- ed nut to be baby octopus.
The fans whirled. Everyone
THE jungle behind was a network of green and black shadow and the from resigned
Arissen in front was a grey-blue might even be some more cards was going to slip the moorings sweated drank too much, and Government monsored
If wo could be Council. He gave his reason: o lake.
energetic on my yacht and pole it out to protest against public
money
-
expanded
"I don't even know yet how being spent on an exhibition by creetly curled over on the enough to walk the half mlie the anchorage beyond the creek interns we sat on the shaky
I have lo absorb heaps of material.... "I have finished the research now. But I don't even know how much I have written..." I foit little envious of this blographer,
long it is going to be.
the Swiss artist Giacometti,
A small wavelet dis-
sand. It was quiet, the air hung heavy for early morn- Christmas ing, and it was
The three of us, Mary and the boy and myself, were the only white family in a Chinese village on the coast of Singa pore island.
Wheeler is • dapper Ittle Day. man with
grey hair, Intense blue eyes, and sharp features. He is a dandy dresser.
After hla clection in the first- floor Reynolds Room at the Academy there were drinks all Ho lives in an Elizabethan round. manor house in the tiny village of Garsingdon,
Oxford. near
oven
·
we
tho
with festivity, AL
for balcony behind the
coloured lights an
and watched opers. By midnight there was as much drink left in half- Allod glasses and discarded bottles to supply an average evening party anywhere.
Somehow we, struggled home the light of a lanterns through the palm grove and past the duck pond, through
the hummocks of mud cones thrown
to the fortifled police station mouth in readiness for on after- overlooking the jetty, where noon sail, the mall was delivered.
The meal was a success, and The meal was the main thing. We would cook it in a portable as evening drew on we heard
When open start. the primus slove, the 1 got up to put the bottles of reached the village we saw that wine to cool in the water tank over the jetty had been built o when three figures came splash- high, rickety stage Ilt by a by ing through the shallow which throbbing generator behind the at high tide separated the hut only two-storey building in the and Its sand-bar from the main place, the coffee shop. jand. One I recognised as Chew Mr Wheeler posed with Bir
1.lay in bed looking through Fatt, a rotund dealer In wire Alfred Munnings, Sir Gerald the open door of the bungalow setting, corrugated iron sheets Kelly, and Bir Albers Richardson it was only
one large room and fishing lines.
three- and for photographs under a paint-partitioned into Ing of Sir Joshua Reynolds-the
waited for the morning breEZE. His routine: "I work on the first P.R.A. biography every morning from Mr Wheeler told me his creed 8.30 until lunch-time. That is for his term of office. He said:
"My first point is the encourage After lunch I go out for a ment of traditional skill in art. long walk. I find biography My fascinating-the relation men to events.'"
His American wife protects him from the telephone and callers while he works.
all I do for the day.
ail
The fishing fleet would catch it and come over the bar at the mouth of the creek a few hun- dred yards away.
them
FOLLOWING
Ahenai, ♫ amali,
Was
The stage was brightly de- up by the crabe and on to the Band-bar. The wine sighed in corated in red and geld, and
the palms and a yellow glow a chalky-fated boy with red-
above a black shape showed dened lips and blackened eyes where a junk slid silently, by on postured and yelled In A the sea. glittering costume of ancient China.
the
Some slim sampang passed in the creek, the water whispering
Up the stairs of the coffee and chuckling under their naked shop we went. The drum of bows. Peace veemed perfect. boy from Maliy
the village, the society stood against
at the wall, surmounted by a banner. snakes. Ag they up- At the tables at the worthies dealers, proached, the mud-crabs popped at the district-fish
of of bond, the encouragement | sand chasing hermit crabs. He throwing
stones
The boy was already on the
experiment; the third, stopped occasionally 10 pick to look out for charlatanism some coral and put it in the water But it seems a pity I must and smile it hip and thigh." bucket he carried. Then faintly into their holes and withdrew the owner of a pepper plants.
still go on waiting....
SCULPTOR TAKES OVER
the pair
for the who was
1 talked also to James Flitan, we heard the banging of sweeps
a rival as the Chinese prawn fishermen de bulbous rousers Cote a tion, a maker of porcelain. cups NEXT morning the village ap- stries of disturbed Colonel to catch rubber from the trees poaredes unruffled us before. presidency.
brought in their flat-bottomed He said: "I am
not really bout. dicappointed, because I have
THE Royal Academy-elected only been an Academician for
sculptor,
Mr
Charles two years. Wheeler, as its new president, "But there were only two or He succeeds Str. Albert Three votes in it between Mr Richardson, is the first sculptor Wheeler and myself.
It still ever to be elected. He is 64. consoles me to be regarded as
Every Londoner will know a kid at 56 in here,”*, the work of Mr Wheeler. The west fountain in
Trafalgar ******* Square, Ariel at the Bank of
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and The opera elanged on, regularly reaching its dramatic climaxes with
Blimps.
They stood round the door,
a sudden rattle and clash whispering. Then Chow Fati
"The fishing and rolling of produced a gold-toothed smile
flect camo and a pink Invitation card the
The dealera bargained over the heaps of up the
octopus and sting-rays Wing in ercek, size of a chain-store menu. THEY swept
Would we come to a party that standing and pushing the
mud, Ahmat hopped and sweeps, their faces gount
evening at the coffee shop? The sharkskin dinner jackets. and Jurong Welfare
they were transformed from ran over the mangrove roots to their clothes Mapping, like local Chinese organisation, was cotton trousers.
Society, the their urual singlets and loose look at his crab traps.-...
The row of spectres. But there was
They greeted police station brooded over the holding its annual opera. enough to money in prawns;
us, smiling and murmuring in Jetty. Boxing Day was still on buy a bottle of good French
the wordless language used oinen, of peace and timeless This, I knew, would boo
everywhere when a common custom.. AS if things in the world brands beyond the kelongs, or three-day affair-the village
"weren't bad enough... nights beyond or transformed into a
tongue is not known. babel of American magazine advertise-ish traps, standing In
screams and bangs from
As soon as the awkwardness Π ments now urge: people to buy shallows beyond the low tido travelling theatrical company wore off, to the clash of cym that, acting replicas of shrunken Papuan mark.
complete with orchestra and bela and cries outsido, a glass boods as Christmas decorations.jp Mary had bought a turkey at the sheute of medleine peddlers, filled to the brim with brandy Singapore had stopped a truck
Sensational to hang in the the cold store eighteen
miles We accepted gratefully,
suddenly appeared at our from the village and had dis pway in Singapore. There were
elbows and the meal had be covered half a ton of opium. for the nuts, raisins, stuffing
There were more smiles andgun. It went on for several
Porhaps that, too, was part of Jbird and in-box of crackers. We they went. Ahmat then camo hours-endless ·disher of un-
the curtom. had the basis of a 'feast. There to the door to say that his father recognisable delicacies.
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