5 MAY 1950, Page 5

" Lord Justice Asquith, who is 60, said in a

broadcast last night that he shed no tears over the abolition of the ' cat.' " So the Daily Telegraph. Why the " who is 60 " ? The words presumably have some relevance. Would the spectacle of Sir Cyril shedding no tears at 55 have been even more impressive ? Or at 65 ? But very likely what mystifies me is plain as pudding to other people.

It often is so.