Contest Announcement!

"Dry your tears, madam," read the contest announcement, which called on readers to write a less tearful, one-page finale by this Thursday.

The cartoon contest announcement came a day after hundreds of demonstrators hurled stones and gasoline bombs at the Danish Embassy here.

He crosses his fingers, hoping that enough talented, imaginative artists saw the contest announcement in major art publications and were willing to comply with the entry requirements.

The prize was a hundred dollars: "Very Liberal Offers and No Humbug" read one version of the contest announcement.

Each 32-page issue featured software/hardware reviews and previews, strategy guides and cheats, letters to the editor, one or two feature articles and contest announcements.

The contest announcement in The New Yorker magazine stated, "One very good page of very bad Hemingway will send you and a friend to Italy for dinner."

Plaques, photos of rodeos, the result sheet for a mechanical bull-riding contest, a Miss Sundance beauty contest announcement, rows of medals and ribbons won by customers or employees, a notice organizing a bowling team, and an entire bulletin board announcing horse shows.