Volume 34, Number 19 · December 3, 1987
Golden Boy
By John Osborne
The Life of Kenneth Tynan
by Kathleen Tynan
Morrow, 597 pp., $22.95
'Aesthetic, tall, appealing. I was riveted, because you didn't see people like that in Birmingham.' That figure was Kenneth Tynan, the speaker one of his many generously minded female admirers. Birmingham, England's second city, no less, center of the hardware trade, is generally acknowledged to be its most ugly, unappealing, and charmless.
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