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Last month, the Messrs. Simon and Schuster presented their crossword* goose with a new nesting lure, the monthly Crossword Puzzle Magazine. They sat back awaiting more of the golden deposits that had established them in the publishing business. Crossword quips, crossword portraits, crossword biographies and several huge crossword puzzles filled the magazine's pages...
...moon of April was unable to say how this lure was going to succeed, but noted that the patient fowl, still laboring over the crossword puzzle books, was beginning to fly unmistakable signals of fatigue. Some bookstores reported their crossword sales to be one-fifth to one-tenth what they were last fall. Others reported the puzzle books to have continued their bestsellers for March, but expected them to fall to eighth or tenth this month...
...LONG GREEN GAZE -Vincent Fuller-Huebsch ($2.00). Reading a detective story, did you ever want to be the detective? Here is your chance-unless you gave up crossword puzzles for Lent. A rapid murder story unfolds -rich old lady, priceless emerald, circle of relatives, mystical Babu-soluble only through the answers to eight puzzles discovered near the crime-scene. For quitters and non-detectives, the answers are sealed in the back of the book...
...editors of the Bronx Home News, paper of Manhattan surburbanites, have, like Robert Browning, a public. This public they discreetly attempted to increase, some weeks ago, by publishing the "probable answers" to a crossword puzzle contest which was being conducted by the New York Evening Graphic (TIME, Feb. 2). The crossword answers were simple, legible. They required merely to be copied, forwarded to the editors of the Graphic'. they revealed not what sort of compliment, what sort of insult, was relished by the public of the Home News...
...Graphic closed its crossword contest, commenced awarding munificent prizes to smirking victors, began a new, a different sort of contest, which was immediately copied by the New this was to win rich rewards by writing the last lines of incomplete limericks (TIME, Feb. 23). Forthwith, letters, telegrams, telephone messages, began to rain upon the editors of the Bronx Home News. "Help us to write the last line and skin the Graphic." This is what the Public wanted the Bronx editors to do. The editors sat in consultation. One man's version of the last line of a limerick...