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...illegitimate son (whom she placed with a country cousin), Sayers married Atherton Fleming, a badly wounded war veteran. She wrote detective novels to supplement her income from an advertising job, but quickly determined to make the genre "become once more a novel of manners instead of a pure crossword puzzle...
...perverse delight in setting aside eight or nine hours for plowing through the 4-lb., 400-page Sunday Times to reassure themselves that nothing had really happened after all. "My Sundays are ruined!" cries Paula Gamache, a senior treasury analyst for Revlon, Inc. "There's no substitute for the crossword puzzle. I do it every week, I'm that compulsive." To fill the empty hours, Pronto, a trendy East Side Italian restaurant, is offering a Sunday brunch for the first time, and similar affairs at other nosheries are S.R.O. Central Park is jumping with even more joggers than usual...
Many employees openly admit to doing nothing to earn their pay. For a year and a half, a statistician at HUD earning $13,000 a year, and four equally idle coworkers, drank coffee, pondered crossword puzzles and listened to the radio. "Our supervisors were always telling us to look busy," she says. "But there's only so much you can pretend when you haven't got a damn thing...
...Israel comes a kind of gin rummy played with tiles, variously called Rummi-brick and Rummikub; one manufacturer in Korea has picked up the game and expects to ship 100,000 by the year's end to sell at up to $40 a set. And the Scrabble Crossword Game, thought to be a children's diversion only by those who have not been thrashed by a ZYGOTE-wielding expert, sells briskly in seven languages, at $19 for the plastic-coated board with turntable base, and supports a bimonthly newspaper and some 55 clubs across the nation. Fans...
...does the academic community a great disservice by leading it to believe that the vulgar antics of his modern "Atillas" bear any resemblance to the dignified pastimes of Neanderthal Man. Indeed, the Neanderthal Men used eating utensils, played musical instruments, took snuff in moderation, and worked crossword puzzles in their spare time. These noble primates were unfortunately driven into extinction by our own aggressive ancestors, who drank white wine with steak, picked their noses with their thumbs, and made off-color variations on epigrams like "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...