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...high percentage of bad pictures and missed a lot of good ones. Wrote a Manchester Guardian Weekly critic: "Once the eye has been thoroughly glazed by the pompous onslaught of indomitable mediocrity, it is fascinating to wander limply through the galleries, no longer resisting ..." In the Spectator, Harold Nicolson suggested that a detailed, illustrated catalogue of the Chantrey purchases should be prepared (in order to keep a record) and the works themselves sent "to decorate Makerere College in Uganda or the corridors of some Fijian veterinary school...
...Harold Nicolson, not only a writer (Swinburne, People and Things), but a respectable fellow (longtime M.P. and Foreign Office man), was finally picked by George VI as just the man to be the official biographer of George...
Labor's candidate also gave cause for more than usual concern: witty, urbane Harold Nicolson, author (Curson: The Last Phase, The Congress of Vienna) and ex-diplomat, was a good friend of Winston Churchill, and a recent Labor convert. He campaigned on a well-bred, sporting level, emphasizing his air of mild reasonableness by saying: "I doubt whether Solomon Eagles* himself could arouse this placid community to a sense of urgency and passion...
...election results were a surprise even to Tory leaders: Tory Harris won a smashing victory that set them crowing about a government setback. Labor took what comfort it could from Nicolson's vote, up 1,700 from the 1945 level...
...Nicolson, no poet himself, suggests that the main reason why poets are considered madder than other people is that they like to display their eccentricities: "All writers, and especially all poets, feel it dull to be thought completely normal...