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Children's Digest meets the blood & thunder of the comic books head-on by running full-color illustrated versions of stories and poems such as Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. Readers also get simple crossword puzzles with pictured hints, e.g., a drawing of a jam jar next to the definition. "It's good on bread." Parents' also puts out Piggety's ("The Children's Magazine of Animal Stories"), and for girls (ages eight to twelve) looking for a "service magazine," Polly Pigtails', which provides gentle tips for dieting under the title...
...mind seems almost as wiry as her body. "There isn't a crossword puzzle I can't finish in half an hour," Babe admits modestly. She likes to play gin rummy but is too good at it to get many opponents. The once lonely, homely tomboy is now a social success; she is an extremely graceful ballroom dancer and the life of almost any party, doing imitations of herself as a child singing I Get the Blues When It Rains, or hauling out a harmonica and rocking into a hillbilly air. Babe once banked $3,500 for taking...
...British newspaper reader, like his American cousin, is an avid crossword-puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
...reading habits: "While at one time the Bible was the book certain to be found in every house, today there are many homes without a Bible, and in some of those where it is found, it is not used except when it is opened for some help in a crossword puzzle...
...editions, was working on the 29th the night before he died. Last week, as Britain celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first publication date, the Thesaurus had passed the 80-edition mark-a standard piece of equipment for three generations of professors and poets, statesmen and scholars, and crossword puzzle fans...