Yes, it was this one:
No 4218
Set by Leonora Casement
We’d like confidential testimonials from the servants or staff of well-known people. As an incentive, we reprint a winner of this competition from back in the 1950s for Henry James, although in this instance we would like the well-known figure to still be alive: “I’ve worked for Mr James for 20 years. They tell me you might find yourself in one of his books but there’s nothing to worry about. I tried to read one once; too artistic for anyone to know it was you, even if it was.”
Max 150 words
Have they forgotten they had already set it? If not, the only differences that I can see are a) the person this time can be dead or alive, b) the warning against libel, and c) the new even stingier limit of 140 words instead of 150. Plus ca change ...
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