SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 132
Set by D. R. Peddy
The practice is increasing of advertising certain products with " educational " (historical, geographical or scientific, &c.) copy, e.g. " It was 1752, the age of Dr. Johnson . . . the full-bottomed wig was fast disappearing . . . and Thomas Whitewash had just started manufacturing lemonade in a back room in Bloomsbury. . . ." A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for not more than 150 words of advertising matter on these lines for one of the following : a " Bikini " swimsuit ; saccharin tablets ; a gas-mask.
Entries must be addressed to the Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London, W.C.1, in envelopes marked " Competition," and must be received not later than September 3rd. Results will be published in the Spectator of September 12th.
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