Word: crostics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HOWIE, by Phoebe Ephron, moved from Boston to Broadway riding an unplanned gale of publicity: the quiz show scandals. Howie (Albert Salmi) is a hulking ex-deck ape, the kind of guy who knows everything except when to shut up. He finishes his mother-in-law's Double-Crostic, his father-in-law's sentences and the neighbors' bridge bids-in short, the perfect quiz contestant. But when his sister-in-law (Patricia Bosworth) helps con him into going on a quiz show, he refuses $96,000 after he discovers that his opponent has got a fast...
...pastorate for almost 14 years, is known as the best man with a grease gun in the business. He has a phenomenal memory (which serves him well on a dais or a Double-Crostic), a lawyer's avidity for meticulous briefing, and relentless persistence. Elected president of Lutheran World Relief after World War II, he ranged Europe on a mammoth repair job that was just as much spiritual as material. "It wasn't just a question of relief," he explains. "Danish and Norwegian Lutherans hated German Lutherans; they felt contempt for Swedish Lutherans. No one would talk...
Anybody who passed long enough in his Collegeward journey to solve the Double Crostic in yesterday's New York Times would have found the name of the hidden author vaguely familiar...