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...offices furnished principally with a good set of dictionaries. Genius of the place is lanky, sandy-haired Frederick Gregory Hartswick, a Yale high-jumper of the class of 1914 who made puzzles a profession, ran the puzzle page on the old New York World and has been getting out crossword puzzle books for Simon & Schuster since 1924. Mr. Hartswick, who joined Publishers Service a year ago, lives in Fanwood, N. J. with his wife and two boys, never misses a track meet if he can help it and likes to rest his brain with carpentry in the Hartswick basement...
...Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness. An excellent pedagog, he had his little weaknesses, such as the daily crossword puzzle in the Times, and his old-bachelor devotion to the faded girl's photograph on his mantelpiece. (She had married a dashing artist, mothered four children, died.) His boys were devoted to Mr. Donkin, but Marbledown's new Headmaster was not, considered him an old-fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware...
Then there are such diversions as the crossword puzzle in the Traveler. The better ones will keep you going for two hours after dinner and what more could you ask. Charles Lamb's pen name was "Elia". The synonym for "Unctuous" is "oily". The word (in cross-word puzzles) for "inflexibility" is "rigid". God help you if they want the name of a town on the Isle of Wight...
...Conference Hall of the Diocesan Clergy at Bradford in the North of England: The obese, cheery Bishop of Bradford who likes to eat with his servants, play golf and work crossword puzzles, castigates King Edward in words applicable either to His Majesty's keeping company with Mrs. Simpson or to the Sovereign's skimpy attendance at Church. "In his public capacity at his Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish...
...first base. From then through last week's games, Gehrig has not been out of the Yankee lineup for a single day. When he started a string of consecutive games played which is now almost 500 more than any other ever compiled by a major-league baseballer, crossword puzzles were beginning to catch on, Jack Dempsey was world's heavyweight champion, Calvin Coolidge was President and Manhattan's Jimmy Walker was still a State Senator. Last week, New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia presented Lou Gehrig with a scroll for having played in his 1,800th...