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John Masefield, now 65, was moved to pen a letter to the London Times. Virtually the only solace he and his wife had got out of any newspapers in years, wrote the poet, was the Times's crossword puzzles...
World news takes the spotlight from college, affairs, with a brand-new teletype machine to bring it in, the editors point out. Comics included are Abbican' Slate and Han Hopper. Crossword puzzles are promised...
Most violinists were content to let him keep his unplayable piece to himself. Not so Louis Krasner. This bald, soft-spoken Boston fiddler had already won sympathetic cheers for fighting his way through a similarly cacophonous, crossword concerto by Schönberg's pupil, Alban Berg. Stung by this new challenge, Krasner sent for Schönberg's piece and started in on it. For thankless months he sawed, plucked and stabbed away at its impossible chords and tuneless, jittery rhythms. "It was six months." said he, "before I began to understand...
National Contesters includes housewives, doctors, lawyers, merchants and a great many printers. Printers have to watch their spelling, often consult dictionaries, which eventually leads them to try their hand at slogans. Peculiar is the caste system of the contest business. A crossword puzzler looks down on jinglers, but slogan-makers lord it over...
...reporters and 1,888 daily newspapers to gratify it. Altogether, 300,000 men and women are engaged in telling you what is happening in the world, with all the trimmings you're accustomed to-comic strips, women's pages, photographs, society notes, advice to the lovelorn, columnists, cartoons, editorials, crossword puzzles...