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...example, the New York Evening Graphic. Manhattan gum chewers' sheetlet, property ? of Bernarr Macfadden, planned a Crossword Puzzle Contest. Others copied it and one even went to the extent of printing the probable answers of the Graphic's puzzles (TIME, Feb. 2). But the crossword puzzle contest wore out; and the Graphic promptly announced a new contest, or series of contests?$150 a day in prizes for the last line of incomplete limericks to be published...
Affidavits were filed. A hearing was called. Justice James O'Malley of Manhattan listened to the eloquence of Lawyer Schultz. But no, said the Justice, there could be no injunction. The editors of the Graphic might well copyright their puzzles, but how could they copyright their answers, when the answers had never been published? Anyone, even the editors of the Bronx Home News, might guess at the answers...
Discomfited but unsubmitting, the Graphic publishd an editorial. In the first paragraph it declared the Graphic Cross Word Puzzle Contest was the greatest contest in the history of journalism; in the second it declared the Graphic Cross-Word Puzzle Contest was the greatest contest ever inaugurated by a newspaper; in the third, that the readers of the Graphic had a chance to win cash prizes for their answers; in the fourth, that the prizes were real cash; in the fifth, that the prizes were real cash. In the sixth paragraph it declared that it "wanted to be explicit about this...
...There is no Foxy Grandpa behind The GRAPHIC'S prizes. Every reader of this newspaper knows how many cash prizes there are in our contest. And, besides, The Graphic puzzles are the 'best in the country. They are prepared by an expert and not by a stunned...
...Graphic readers read this editorial, attacked the puzzles with renewed vigor, continued to copy their answers from the Bronx Home News, which continued to publish them...