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Other popular items include all science fiction magazines (Galaxy loads here) and racing publications (Armstrong's is the first choice of Harvard men). All the news weeklies sell very well, with "Time" overwhelmingly tops. Sales of sport magazines, crossword puzzle books, and "little magazines" are only fair...
...name of T. S. Eliot appeared on the London weekly Time & Tide's list of readers who had submitted correct solutions to its crossword puzzle No. 1113. He got no prize, but admitted, "I like to see my name in print...
...jail in Montreal last week. During his last hours, the wavy-haired little jeweler wrapped himself in the same callous arrogance with which he had plotted the time-bomb murder of his wifeand 22 othersaboard a Quebec Airways plane 16 months ago. He methodically worked crossword puzzles in his death cell, looked up once to say to his guards: "At least I die famous...
Acta's lead articles usually retell the stories of such noble correspondents as Caesar and Cicero. But like any enterprising newspaper, Acta prints a good deal more than spot news. There are such circulation boosters as Poppaedius the Sailorman, an Acrostichis Duplex (double acrostic), an Aenigma Verbale (crossword puzzle), and occasionally something that looks like an ad. ("Putabat to gam suam candidam esse!" snorts one Senator about another, in apparent anticipation of the 20th Century catch line of Britain's Persil soap powder, "I thought my shirt was white...
...Chelsea (Expatriate Henry James used to live in the flat just below), wearing an impeccable dark blue suit and carrying a tightly rolled umbrella, walked one block to the No, 49 bus stop. When the bus came, he mounted to the upper deck, unfolded his London Times to the crossword puzzle, and fell...