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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]
The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. [1] The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in ...
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [32] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
Paul Léautaud (1872–1956), French writer and author of Le Journal Littéraire; Jan LechoĊ (1899–1956), Polish critic and diplomat; James Lees-Milne (1908–1997), English biographer, historian and secretary of National Trust Country House Committee; Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007), American author; Élisabeth Leseur (1866–1914), French ...
At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell publications. [6] He eventually graduated from Indiana University in 1974, [7] and is the only person known to hold a college degree in enigmatology, [8] the study of puzzles. Shortz wrote his thesis about the history of American word puzzles. [9]
The ANSWER is listed first, followed by the numbered clue. “A” is for across and “D” is for down. The day follows, to show the difficulty level. The puzzles get harder from Monday to Saturday.
In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an anthropologist. [6] Early in their relationship, Carmichael became his business manager. [1]In The Complete Far Side, Larson says that his greatest disappointment in life occurred when he was at a luncheon and sat across from cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family.
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]