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Legend has it that in the 1920s, the maverick journalist Claud Cockburn staged a private competition among his colleagues on The Times. The winner, he said, would be the person who managed to write the dullest headline. Cockburn himself is said to have carried the day with ‘Small Earthquake In Chile. Not Many Dead’. For years, my favourite magazine, The Oldie, has had a regular column, inspired by this competition, called Not Many Dead. Oldie readers send in items of exceptional dullness that they have spotted in newspapers. Craig Brown has long been a fan of The Oldie which has a regular column inspired by Claud Cockburn

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