Word: puzzler
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...Toronto last week one Fred Shipley did a jigsaw puzzle while his apartment burned. Forcibly ejected by firemen. Puzzler Shipley finished his puzzle under a blanket on the sidewalk...
Wall Streeters were telling each other the above story last week as a joke, a puzzler. But in several places throughout the land businessmen were seriously experimenting with new kinds of money to lubricate their local credit systems. In 140 communities in 29 states, 1.000,000 citizens were solving their problems notably through the use of scrip and the foundation of barter associations. Examples...
...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...
...Most famed puzzler of the 1930 Edison questionnaire: if you and an assorted party of seven were stranded in a desert with escape possible only for three, which three would you save? Last week came word of an actual party of seven, much like Mr. Edison's-including a 16-year-old mother and her baby-whose bus broke down crossing; the desert between Nogales and Mexicali, Mexico. After wandering five days, the mother, baby and two others died. The three survivors were discovered raving...
...Puzzler Stern and his wife (who advocates vocabulary jousts as an antidote to divorce) became national mixed doubles champions...