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...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 »

...states, the law is less specific and electors are bound mainly by tradition. As recently as 1948, the tradition was flouted in one instance. Tennessee Elector Preston Parks, though chosen as a Democrat, claimed his constitutional privilege to vote as he pleased. He cast his ballot for States Righter J. Strom Thurmond, and it was so counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Line of Succession | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...regular minister it had had in eight years, and to mark the occasion, Bishop Austin Pardue came down from Pittsburgh to install him. He could have filled the vacancy before, the bishop said, but he thought it better to wait for a "good" man, like 28-year-old Walter Righter, their new parson, who had set his heart on industrial missionary work while he was still training for the ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Workers' Bishop | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Edward F. Burke '50 and William H. Righter '49 argued for the Debate Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Defeat Socialists, Argue Brown Tomorrow | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...Haven, William H. Righter '49, Richard D. Rohr '48, and Sedgwick W. Green '50 represented the College. They pointed out that the country was in good shape and that many of Truman's errors may be laid to the Eightieth Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debate Council Falters as Yale Sweeps Election Talks | 10/30/1948 | See Source »

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