15 FEBRUARY 1952, page 13

Spectator Competition No. 102 Report By Richard Usborne...

of Pont's drawings for Punch before the war there stood a statue of an Englishman holding a weird object. All you could read on the inscription on the plaque was:— " Hail to......

Spectator Competition No. 105 Set By Mervyn Horder A Special

form of official sentimentality manifests itself in the attempt to improve the status of certain downtrodden persons by a tactful change of name : e.g., dustmen are rechristened......