Mulchrone’s magic
AS A Daily Mail reader for most of my 75 years — and a journalist — i believe the paper has never had a better writer than Vincent Mulchrone (1923-1977).
it should be flattered that nick Robinson, who quoted his words without attribution, should have inadvertently borrowed the ‘two rivers’ metaphor Mulchrone used in describing churchill’s funeral.
His masterful phrases were legendary. When the Queen visited ulster, her Rolls- Royce was struck by a bottle and a lump of concrete. He wrote: ‘a breeze block and a bottle of stout were hurled into ulster history yesterday.’
Before the 1966 World cup final, he wrote: ‘if the Germans beat us at our national game, we can always console ourselves with the fact we have twice beaten them at theirs.’
He was described by newspaper magnate Vere Harmsworth as ‘a
writer who did more to popularise the Royal Family than a hundred purveyors of sycophantic prose’. nick Robinson take note. PHILIP MOGER, former ITN senior programme editor, East Preston, W. Sussex.