MIGHTY   SPOILER REAL NAME: Theophilus Phillip DATE OF BIRTH: March 23, 1926 PLACE OF BIRTH: Princes Town, Trinidad EDUCATION: Craignes EC School Princes Town EC School CAREER:                              After briefly working as a railway porter, Spoiler began his singing career in 1946 at the House of Lords Tent and was a founding member of the Young Brigade Tent which opened in 1947. He won the first National Calypso Crown competition in 1953 with "Bed Bug." He won the title again in 1955 with "Picking Sense Out of Nonsense," and took second place in 1957 with "Magistrate Try Himself." His other calypsoes include: 1946 - What Happened on VJ Day 1951 - Women Police 1953 - Royal Wedding 1960 - Talking Backwards; Fountain of Youth Also - All Fool's Day; Believe It or Not; Father Christmas; Funeral Undertaker; Girls With Glasses; Lost Memories; Mad Scientist; Money in the Bank; My Shadow; No Nylons for Yvonne; Sleepwalking; Small Island Carnival; Tarzan; Twin Brother; Wars of Long Ago DIED: December 24, 1960, from an alcohol-related disease. Compiled by Ronald C. Emrit