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...Diaries of Lewis Carroll [TIME, March 29]: please, either tell me where I can buy a frictionless pulley, or give me the answer to the Rev. Charles Dodgson's puzzle.* NELL COUFAL Omaha ¶As the Rev. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) supplied no answer to his own puzzle, see below for one reader's solution...
...darkening her reputation in Manhattan two years ago, and then went to Europe with "a wealthy tycoon, a married man." Later, on the Continent, she picked up yet another rich companion and helped him buy champagne all over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment to His Majesty King Farouk." Pulley took her home to Cairo as a tidbit for the king, but revolution prevented her meeting the girl-prone monarch...
...starts painting base of pole. Man on pole erects pulley arrangement to enable him to get can of paint to top of pole without carrying...
...remove pole, using pulley; put in new pole...
...usual procedure in Communist Czechoslovakia: a strong, thin, silken noose, tied around the victim's neck, is then passed over a pulley at the top of a heavy stake. The victim is dropped from such a low elevation that his neck is not immediately broken. The executioner, who is standing near by, accomplishes this with his hands...