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...ailing New York Herald Trib une, its "Tangle Towns" contest has been as stimulating as a double shot of whisky...
...towns in New York state represented by scram bled anagrams (see cut) and described in such clues as: "People of one religious faith from all over the state gather here for an annual meeting. It is a small country village and was first settled about 1790.* As the Trib expected, so many contestants solved the first 54 Tangle Towns that the paper started a series of tough tie-breakers." But the double shot for the Trib's circulation turned out to be the world's worst hangover for the New York Public Library. Close to 500 telephone calls...
Even the rival New York Times and Daily News were having their troubles over the Trib's contest. Both papers' information services and morgues have been deluged with thinly veiled queries that would help solve Tangle Towns clues. The Public Library finally found a hangover cure. It put its own researchers to work figuring out the daily Tangle Towns answers, and gave them to anyone who asked for them...
...Trib was unconcerned over this answering service, and hinted that some of the library's solutions were wrong. In any case, it said that the contestants for the final tiebreakers would meet in the paper's offices, where no outside help will be allowed. As for the city's damaged libraries, the Trib was planning to help replace torn, mutilated and missing books...
...paper's profit reached a peak of $1,000,000 after taxes, on a total income of $20 million. Rising costs cut profits to $347,000 by 1949. In 1951 and 1952, said Mrs. Reid, the paper was "slightly on the edge of the red." Last year the Trib counted on a $200,000 profit, but the eleven-day newspaper strike cost it more than $500,000, tumbling the paper into its biggest postwar deficit. This year, on an estimated income of more than $26 million, the Trib will probably be only slightly...