19 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 4

On Monday, in Sir Alan Herbert's latest book of verses

(which he was kind enough to give me), I read for the first time the words (applied to certain singers) " A girl with one lung • And a man with a voice like a snore."

On Tuesday, reading in manuscript the Undergraduate article which appears on another page, I found a reference to " Sir Alan Herbert's well-known words ' A girl with one lung And a man with a voice like a snore.' " Odd. But it is so.

JANUS