THE SPECTATOR'S £500 NEW' WRITING PRIZE PRESENTATION
Mrs Pamela Haines receives the £500 cheque in the Editor's room in Gower Street, from Mr George Gale, Editor• of the srEcrAToR, with Mr Kingsky Antis and Sir Richard Steele (painting) in attendance The winner of the New Writing prize, with the short story 'Foxy's not at home', under rthe pseudonym of 'Lionel Burrows', il, Mrs Pamela Haines of Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh. By sheer coincidence, it turned out that she was acquainted with the Chairman's secretary, and was staying over- night with another close friend, the cousin of Mr Amis's wife. It also emerged that her husband, Dr Tony Haines, a GP who has recently moved up to Edinburgh from a
practice in Cambridge, retained the medical card of one member of the judging panel. He had also been the Editor's contem- porary at Peterhouse—where he had been the subject of one of Mr Gale's slighting aphorisms in the college commonplace book.
Mrs Haines met her husband, at Cam- bridge, on a croquet lawn. She misheard one of his croquet instructions, interpreting it to mean something quite different, and
now has five children, three girls and two boys, aged from seven to fifteen.
We expect to publish 'Foxy's not at home' during the course of the summer, and to publish, also, the other winners: Lezaver (Short Story), Dr J. M. Mitchell of West Wickham, Kent. William Geminus (Descriptive Reporting), Mr Bill Nicholson of Argyll Road, London w8, Mundungus (Polemic/Political Essay), Mr F. R. Mac- Kenzie of Pelts Wood, Kent.
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