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Default Comp breaks

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Originally Posted by Max Goodman View Post
In Deep Drills, Sylvia, quoting the New Statesman posts this news about their weekly humor competition:



Has the comp taken breaks before? (Someone here must know. Bill?) How concerned should we be that this is the final end of more than 85 years or comps?
The NS (orig Week-end Review) has never had a break. One of its comps was cancelled because all the entries blew out of the bike-basket of the judge (war-time), and one was banned (sexist gags) in the 80s, but later printed in a Xmas edition, decades later.

The Spectator's current comp, however, is numbered from the first issue in 1950, and was cancelled in 1959 at no. 472, and revived, without warning really, in 1967, with the next number in sequence.

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