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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Shortz is the author or editor of more than 100 books and owns over 20,000 puzzle books and magazines dating back to 1545, reportedly the world's largest private library on the subject. [12] He is a member and historian of the National Puzzlers' League .
The puzzle proved popular, and Sulzberger himself authored a Times puzzle before the year was out. [11] In 1950, the crossword became a daily feature. That first daily puzzle was published without an author line, and as of 2001 the identity of the author of the first weekday Times crossword remained unknown. [13]
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Mamas & the Papas; 20th Century Masters – The Christmas Collection: The Best of Reba; 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Reba McEntire; 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Maureen McGovern
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic stated that people likely didn't know why UMG found it necessary to release the album seeing as the A Decade of Hits 1969–1979 album already had been released, going on to state that "the new 11-track album shares nine selections with the earlier 16-track one."
[2] 20th Century Masters uses eight of the ten songs from Parliament's Greatest Hits (1984), and is essentially an update of that collection. Album versions of the songs "Up for the Down Stroke"; "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" and "Aqua Boogie" are also used in place of the edited versions used on Greatest Hits .
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tears for Fears is a compilation album by the English pop rock band Tears for Fears released by Mercury Records in the US and Canada only in 2000.
In a review of the album on AllMusic, William Ruhlmann stated that "there is a reasonable compilation to be constructed from this material, a collection that, for example, might include Cash's version of Elvis Costello's "The Big Light" (from 1987's Is Coming to Town) and the Paul McCartney collaboration "New Moon Over Jamaica" (from 1988's Water From the Wells of Home), but this isn't it ...