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This cleared up the case, except for the whereabouts of some $300,000 of ransom money, for which police are still searching. After confessing. Hall sank into a sullen silence, and Mrs. Heady asked for a pencil so she could work a crossword puzzle. The request was refused because she was classed as a "maximum security prisoner." So she settled down with a comic book: Intimate Love. Hall was being kept in solitary confinement, so that other prisoners would not harm...
When the Meads established the Center, local qualms over the word International almost caused its failure. In fact, it is this that most disturbs the present directors. Hans jokingly tells of people telephoning to inquire peregrine words for crossword puzzles, but more seriously insists that "to be truly international, the Center must include Americans as well. For Americans are welcome, and it is only lack of information that keeps them away...
...Chicago newspaper ad, 'Bullet holes rewoven perfectly' . . . and the Japanese battle cry, 'Go to hell, Babe Ruth-American, you die.' " Simon & Schuster, old hands at publishing quiz books, have this to say: "Live Them Again is a parlor game matching the fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1932-described...
...recent conversation with Margaret Farrar, crossword-puzzle editor for the New York Times, I asked her if she would like to try her hand at a special kind of puzzle: a crossword with the definitions based on recent TIME cover stories. She was intrigued by the idea, soon produced a puzzle constructed mainly from information which she found in the cover stories on Democratic Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Planemaker James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, George Washington and East Germany's Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht. Here it is, and I hope you have as much fun solving...
...Hammond under-rates his own influence. With his hearty voice and his sincere manner, The Mace has brought a warmth to Kirkland and a determination to be of real help to the students. This determination, while sturdy, has its lighter side. His College roommate remembers that Hammond always did crossword puzzles with the vertical definitions covered. He resolved to work to work out puzzles horizontally and after extra time, thought, and erasures, he would at last complete them. "That," reminisces his roommate, "is Mason's determination...