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...Parker Bros, turned to cheap, cardboard-backed jigsaw. Einson-Freeman's 3,000,000 puzzles account for more than half the total sales today, with the fad being pushed by newspaper colyumists, cartoonists and editorial writers, by radio gag men and smart cocktail party devotees. Simon & Schuster, crossword pioneers, issued $1 puzzles designed by Peter Arno, William Steig, Otto Soglow, Tony Sarg...
...like Bishop Freeman. He is an occasional golfer (with Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain to the Senate), an expert crossword puzzler, a pipe and cigaret smoker. He weighs 190 lb., is still husky but much older looking than when he became Bishop of Washington...
Simon & Schuster, spectacular young concern (Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster) who gave to the U. S. crossword puzzles, Trader Horn, Story of Philosophy, Joan Lowell. This firm is unique for its high average sale of its comparatively few books...
...These words have been chosen out of innumerable languages, living and dead, either because of some association of ideas or of sound." Unfortunately for readers accustomed to simpler fare, they quickly get mental indigestion from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even by crossword puzzle experts. Self-doomed to unpopularity, he is marked as the head of all experimentalist, "stream-of-consciousness" writers. Say his followers: by the influence of his writing on other authors Joyce has affected, will affect, the English language as no other man has done...
...Last week the London Times, patriarch of the world press, announced, after due study and consideration, that it had decided that the public had shown such real and lasting interest in the phenomenon, that henceforth the Times would publish one crossword puzzle each...