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...husband on his 65th birthday, gave him a plastic easel equipped with boxes for brushes and paints. Major John Eisenhower's choice was a set of Autobridge, enabling the President to play all four hands in turn. From the President's grandchildren came a book of crossword puzzles, another book called 150 Ways to Play Solitaire, and a phonograph record of a monologue, What It Was, Was Football. In the President's room bloomed red roses and autumn flowers, picked from his mother's garden at Abilene. Kans...
...Catholic views on U.S. foreign policy ("Catholic Women Attack Trade with Red Lands"). The paper is lightened with feature stories, e.g., the "filming of a 'miraculous' cure at Lourdes," comic strips and cartoons (Henry, Mister Breger), serials (Harold Lamb's Charlemagne, the Legend and the Man), crossword puzzles and fashions...
...crossword-puzzle editor of Britain's Country Life magazine casually opened the entries in weekly contest No. 1266. The name signed beneath the first correct solution he came across was H.R.H. Princess Margaret, Clarence House, St. James's, London. After a discreet telephone call proved that this was no hoax, Country Life prepared to send Crossworder Margaret the prize: her choice of $8.82 worth of sporting books...
Readers get their entertainment from the Journal in one neat, lively package: the daily, four-page "Green Sheet," the paper's most popular feature, filled with comics, pictures, a crossword puzzle, bridge column, advice to the lovelorn, crisply written local profiles, etc. Across the "Green Sheet's" front page runs a trademark nonsense banner. Sample: EVER STOP TO THINK THAT YOU COULDN'T GET VERY FAR WITHOUT HOLES IN YOUR HEAD? For late news that misses its last edition, the Journal puts out a two-page "Peach Sheet" every afternoon, gives it away free all over...
...find something interesting in an object," says Le Witt, "you can interest other people. People like the vague bit of a puzzle, and once they get into it. they feel they are taking part in the creation of it." "Just," concludes Him, "as they accept the challenge of a crossword...