Word: graf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulpit v. Pulps. Keith S. Sutton, a nationally known puzzle expert, set up the contest with the blessing of the Rev. Canon Albert J. duBois, general secretary of the A.C.U. The board's lone dissenter, the Rev. Charles H. Graf of Manhattan's St. John's Episcopal Church in the Village, objected to the puzzle initially because, he argued, contestants are encouraged by easy come-on puzzles until they reach "tiebreakers" that are "so prodigiously difficult that only experts can solve them...
...Father Graf soon found more compelling reasons for opposing the contest. He discovered that the full-page ads announcing the contest over the A.C.U.'s name were being placed in romance magazines (Life Romances, Romance Confessions), comic books (Lovers, My Own Romance, Diary Confessions), confidential magazines and other pulps with sexy or lurid themes and pictures. Shocked, he resigned from the A.C.U., took to his pulpit to condemn the contest as "barely legal, hardly legitimate and highly unethical...
Circulation v. Implication. Magazines that have accepted the ads, said Father Graf, "will corrupt the minds of our youth." He called the puzzles "gyp lotteries," reminded the A.C.U. that the House of Bishops opposes bingo and other gambling. Furthermore, he implied, the whole business was unsound: "If less than $315,000 is grossed," he said, "then the A.C.U. will receive not one cent. How in conscience can a church organization take such a gamble with its reputation and its contributors' money...
Pained, the A.C.U. retorted that it allowed ads to be placed in pulp magazines because their rates were cheaper, their circulations large and many of their readers puzzle fans. The contest, it insisted, was "moral, ethical, legal, legitimate and proper" and Father Graf had "by implication, smear and innuendo impugned the morals, ethics, motives and intelligence of the council [and] permitted numerous errors and distortions of fact . . . to cloud the issue...
...dollar volume in 1954 than in any year during Germany's pre-World War I heyday of Latin American trading. Items: Graf Spec was scuttled in 1939-West Germany has made itself Argentina's No. 1 supplier...