20 MAY 1955, Page 38

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 27 5

Set by Allan M. Laing

A rumour, much too good to be true, credits Sir Winston Churchill with the inten- tion of rounding off a versatile career by writing ballads in the Macaulay ,vein. For a prize of £5 competitors are asked to take any incident in Sir Winston's active life and relate it in the familiar Macaulay metre. Limit : twenty lines.

Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 275,' 99 Gower Street, London, WCI, must be received by May 31. Results in the Spectator of June 10.