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...children, having wrestled for one and a half hours with compound fractions or Latin verbs on top of a long day's schooling, are entitled to their 15 minutes' reward. Who grudges the bishop his detective novel or the businessman his nightly half-hour on the Times crossword? . . . Heaven postpone the day when our priggish offspring forsake such unsophisticated thrills for the sober contemplation of their own importance in the future of planned economy...
...artists' bullpen on Madison Avenue, where Alfred Gerald Caplin (now Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner) was also fenced in, Caniff launched a "kid strip" called Dickie Dare. A.P. artists got $60 to $85 a week and the greenest hand had to block out "the damn crossword puzzles." "They wouldn't even tell us how many papers were using our stuff," Caniff complains. "They were afraid we'd get big ideas...
Copy by the Clock. Every day Jones leaves his suburban home at precisely 8:15, reaches the News at 9:15, starts for the courts at 10. He does his crossword puzzle on the subway, finishes it during dull cases, if it's a tough one. His round is unfailing: Monday, Bow Street; Tuesday, Marlborough Street; Wednesday, Old Street; Thursday, Clerkenwell; Friday, Bow Street again. Jones leaves the court by 11:30, lunches at 12 exactly, begins to write at 12:30, is through at two. He is home again at 4:15 (having stopped for a drink...
...headlines dealt with sex, sports and prize contests (?1,000 a week to crossword puzzle fans), three enduring attractions that had built for the News of the World the biggest circulation (7,412,383) on earth...
...This crossword puzzle is all worked out very suavely by one of the most workmanlike of narrative puzzle-makers. Graves's account of Jesus' childhood in Egypt is written with simplicity and reverence; his accounts of ancient ritual surpass anything in The Golden Bough; his reporting of ancient theological discussions is sometimes dull but often absorbing, for Graves is a writer of practiced lucidity. If it could be read in the same spirit as the Claudius books, King Jesus would be fair enough reading...