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The Nation: David Can Be a Goliath

It has been jocularly rumored in Britain that David Paradine Frost, now 38, aims to be Prime Minister by his 50th birthday. "Not so," swears Producer-Director Ned Sherrin, who gave Frost his first big job on TV. "David would quite like to be Prime Minister. And the Queen. And the Archbishop of Canterbury. But being only one would limit him a bit." Indeed. It might even be argued that if all three offices could be made into one, with David as all-purpose Augustus, Britannia would in short...

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