14 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 4

A gentleman who may become the Labour Party's new election

agent is described, I see, as "a gregarious pipe-smoker." As a mild student of the English language I find this a little perplexing. Is he a gregarious person who, incidentally, smokes pipes ; or a smoker of gregarious pipes ; or a person who associates assiduously with other pipe-smokers ? JANUS.