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...This faith of mine is no crossword puzzle. It is beyond words. For words at their best are but symbols of the truth...
Deliberately, with exactness, the editors of TIME make choice of their words, their phrases. Startled, therefore, was I to find in one and the same category these: 'Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers. ..." ("The Press," TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords-I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles...
Yale, victorious in almost every field of sport during 1924, opened the New Year with a triumph over the University in the first intercollegiate crossword puzzle contest ever held. Before a large and enthusiastic audience, teams from eight colleges and universities engaged in this bitter struggle for the cross-word championship of the world, which was staged in the ballroom of the Hotel Roosevelt of New York on Sunday evening...
Said one Alfred Coster Schermerhorn of Manhattan, protagonist: "The crossword puzzle is here to stay...
Examining the Nation's press, last week, readers found among the news- papers publishing crossword puzzles: The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Kansas City Star, The Detroit Free Press, The Omaha Bee, The Chicago Tribune, The Buffalo Evening News, The Cleveland Press, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Philadelphia Ledger, The Minneapolis Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Transcript and nine Manhattan dailies...