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Anagrams

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IN COMPETITION NO. 1851 you were invited to submit anagrams of the full names of famous people.

Except where I have been able to check I take on trust that the famous names used were the full ones, and I take on trust too that the anagrams were made up by you and not plucked from a book. 'I dislike anagrams,' wrote Peter Norman grumpily, and then temporarily stunned me with `Orenthal James Simpson: Spotless hero in a jam, man' — temporarily, because when I came to I discovered there was a superflu- ous 'a'. This, I fear, will only increase Mr Norman's dislike. I was quite pleased with my own attempt at Wilde: 'A girl, all for shallow fin-de-siecle wit', but Tim Hop- kins's, printed below, is better. Someone has just phoned to say that the Spurs man- ager, Ossie Ardiles, transmutes aptly into `Side is a loser'.

Every anagram printed below earns the maker five pounds. The bonus bottle of Isle of Jura Single Malt Scotch whisky goes to D.B. Jenkinson for the most attractive `double'.

Henri-Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec- Monfa: You — ideal nomenclature for a horrid amusement.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson: Fabulous ter- ror novel is best — no? (D.B. Jenkinson) Arthur Neville Chamberlain: Unarm, brave clan. Heil Hitler! (N.E. Soret) blazing heart! Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Robert, be twin (Mary Holtby) David Lloyd George: A giddy old leg-over.

(Philip Dacre) Kenneth Wilfred Baker: F— the blinkered wanker. (Andrew Gibbons) Francis Albert Sinatra: Banal art can stir fires.

(Basil Ransome-Davies) Virginia Woolf: In Virago I flow. (J. Gill) Solomon West Ridgway Dias Bandaranaike: Sad widow's mate in Sri Lanka. A body, a goner!

(Eric Smith) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair: Hell! Labor ninny has Tory cant. (J.C. Veale) Robert Smith Surtees: Rest bum, horse-sitter.

(James Kennedy) Thomas Stearns Eliot: He is not a lost master.

(A.T. Creery-Hill) Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor: HRH aggro — Di pic lure wins prole hearts.

(Chris Lehman) Bernard Law Montgomery: Grand war, 'n' bye to Rommel. (Kate Irving) Oscar Fingal! O'Flahertie Wills Wilde: I chose willing Alfred . . trials . . fall . . . woe.

(Tim Hopkins) Robert Burns: Rubber's torn! (Ralph Sadler) Clint Eastwood: Old West action. (Nick Hobart) Ernest Miller Hemingway: Lying male he-men's writer. (W.J. Webster) Ezra Weston Loomis Pound: Poet in word zeal