Word: clue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked to untangle each puzzle, put it away in a safe place, and then send in the whole lot at the end of the contest. Each puzzle was a rectangular box in which letters of various sizes were arranged in an attractively confusing pattern. Underneath was printed a small clue: "This upstate village is a peaceful residential area. Its chief claim to fame is that than Allen and his troops slept here on the way to Ticonderoga." The solution was the name of a city, town or village in New York State...
Contestants' methods for solution varied according to their personalities. There was the impestuous, headstrong type: he would stare intently at the puzzle until divine inspiration arrived. Then he would blurt something out: "ILCHAPANA!" and would rush to the encyclopedia to check the clue--no such place. So he would go back and stare some more, and come up with another flash: "PHALACIAN!" Eventually he might get the right answer, but generally this type didn't stick to it. He would get hung up on a tough one like TWO-SCORN-POE ("In this village in western New York State, Abner...
...Switzerland and the courtly attentions of well-to-do German Industrialist Harold von Bohlen und Halbach, 43. In St. Moritz, skiing by day and dancing far into cozy candlelit nights, Soraya and her companion appeared to be verging on a beautiful friend ship. Was it romance? The only clue came from the tall, blondish bachelor, who turned to a lone newsman at a hotel bar, wagged a finger and cryptically volunteered: "I've been in Russian prison camps for eleven years and know what freedom is worth...