COMPETITION

No. 572: Alliterations

Set by E. 0. Parrott: Most people know the alliterative poem which begins:

`An Austrian army awfully arrayed Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade'.

Clever and charming, no doubt, but Austrian armies besieging anywhere are hardly topical any longer. Competitors are asked to provide twelve lines from a similar alliterative poem on the pulling down of the Belfast barricades or the skirmish with the squatters at 144 Piccadilly. Entries marked 'Competition No. 572', by 10 October.

No. 569: The winners

Trevor Grove reports: Lapel badges (it was recently made known) are to be issued by the Labour party bearing such slogans as 'I'M A SOUL MATE, MATE!' and 'GET LIFE AND SOUL AND WIN'. Competitors were invited to imagine that the Conservative party might be tempted to follow suit and to suggest appropriate wording for the badges. We suggested that slogans might range from the hortatory ('co EAST OF SUEZ, YOUNG MAN!') to the encouragingly revelatory ( 'TED'S GETTING MARRIED ! ) and these two lines of approach were rigorously pursued, with large numbers of submissions that we should 'KEEP BRITAIN RIGHT,' 'GO THE WHOLE HOGG' and make a note that 'MAUDLING AIN'T DAWDLING.'

A guinea to each of the following slogans:

`BACK MACLEOD I OR A SILVER LINING'

(F. A. V. Madden)

'110GG'S A GOOD 1-1-LOW I OR ALL SOULS!'

(W. A. Payne)

`MORE POWELL 10 YOUR ELBOW!' ( B. L. Howarth) `HAROLD FOR XPM' (E. 0. Parrott) 'AMATORY—LOVE lED' (F. Galway) `GET OUT OF THE RED WITH TED' (T. M. Dutton) 'BETTER TED THAN RED' (Martin Fagg, David Drummond M. K. Cheeseman) `FIEATII HAS TEE I /1" (Russell Lucas)

`QUIN1 IN RINGS A BELL. II OR ME' ( M. K.

Cheeseman)

'ENOCH POWEI.I. CALLS A SPADE A SPADE'

(J. M. Crooks)

`HAROLD WII.SON. THE GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ NEEDS YOU!' ( Lance Haward)

'COME HOME LORD NORTH—ALL IS FORGIVEN'

(Lance Haward)

`IIUYTON FOR LONDON'S THIRD AIRPORT' (Lance Haward)