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...they never put it on the market. In 1948 a social worker named James Brunot took it over and invented the name "Scrabble" (dictionary meaning: "to scrape, paw or scratch with the hands or feet"). He and his wife started making the games themselves in a small workshop at Newtown, Conn. Six months ago, unable to keep up with the burgeoning demand, they licensed a game-manufacturing company, Selchow & Righter, to bring out Scrabble sets on a mass-production basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: Gnus Nix Zax--Tut | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

Johan H. Andreson, Jr., Sinedbraaten, Skoyen, Oslo, Norway; atrick T. Colt, Newtown, Conn.; Ernest B. Dane, 3rd, Middletown, Conn.; Duncan N. Dickson, Utica, N. Y.; Harrison Gardner, Jr., Wenham, Mass.; Christopher c. Ingraham, Providence, R. I.; Stephen L. Reynolds Weston, Mass.; Hans C. Vitzthum, San Diego, Cal.; Brayton F. Wilson, Cambridge, Mass.; Roger F. Langley, Jr., Baue, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 222 Letters Awarded for Winter Sports | 4/29/1953 | See Source »

Madeline Hewes paints pleasant, easy-to-understand pictures, which people enjoy looking at and museums, as well as private collectors, like to own. So far, she has painted 41 pictures, and sold 38 of them. The other three are fresh off the easel that stands in her Newtown, Conn, studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PLEASANT & POPULAR | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

EDITH OGELSBY PEALE Newtown Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

PETER WOLL Newtown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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