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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 ...
William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an American abolitionist, journalist, publisher, author, and civil servant of Boston, Massachusetts, who worked for the integration of schools and public facilities in the state. Writing for abolitionist newspapers The Liberator and The North Star, he helped publicize the anti-slavery ...
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]
Nigel Dempster (1941–2007), Daily Express, Daily Mail and Private Eye; Tom Driberg (1905–1976), Daily Express and Reynolds News; Tony Forrester (1953–), The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph; Jonathan Freedland (1967–), The Guardian, Jewish Chronicle, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard; A. A. Gill (1954–2016), The Sunday Times
The daily New York Times puzzle for November 5, 1996, by Jeremiah Farrell, had a clue for 39 across that read "Lead story in tomorrow's newspaper, with 43 Across (!)." [ 20 ] The answer for 43 across was ELECTED; depending on the outcome of that day's Presidential Election , the answer for 39 across would have been correct with either CLINTON ...
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 ...
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] There have been four editors of the puzzle. Farrar edited the puzzle from its inception in 1942 until 1969.
Harriet Jacobs [a] (1813 or 1815 [b] – March 7, 1897) was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".