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A slam book was briefly the focus of the murder investigation of Carole Lee Kensinger in 1948. [7] Slam books crossed racial barriers and were popular among African American high school communities in the 1950s. [8] and were not limited to the US. In 2005, friends created a slam book as a going-away present for 16-year-old Richa Thapa who ...
A slam book is a notebook (commonly the spiral-bound type) which is passed among children and teenagers. The keeper of the book starts by posing a question (which may be on any subject) and the book is then passed round for each contributor to fill in their own answer to the question. [citation needed]
Aric Egmont and Jennie Bass, a young couple in Boston, shared a love of crossword puzzles, and were accustomed to doing the Sunday crossword puzzle together. Intending to propose, and hoping for a great surprise, Aric approached Doug Most, the editor of the Globe Magazine, and through him, Cox and Rathvon, soliciting a special crossword. Cox ...
The book was promoted with an included pencil, and "This odd-looking book with a pencil attached to it" [44] was an instant hit, leading crossword puzzles to become a craze of 1924. To help promote its books, Simon & Schuster also founded the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, which began the process of developing standards for puzzle ...
French-, Spanish-, or Latin-language answers, and more rarely answers from other languages are indicated either by a tag in the clue giving the answer language (e.g., [Summer: Fr.] for ETE) or by the use in the clue of a word from that language, often a personal or place name (e.g. [Friends of Pierre] for AMIS or [The ocean, e.g., in Orleans ...
The post-2002 reprints of the book have some lines edited and a bit of new content added to update the technology use in it (for instance, record players are replaced with CD players, and the summer camp's copy machine keeps malfunctioning, which is why Sheila must use a mimeograph machine, whereas the original had them already still using ...
Read a book that keeps you turning the pages but doesn’t include any upsetting material (say, a charming romance or old-fashioned mystery rather than a history of World War II). Do a crossword ...
Parker has written or edited over 50 books, a series of puzzle books for the For Dummies brand, 25 digital games, the annual USA Today Crossword Calendar, and the syndicated Family Time Crossword. In 2014, Parker co-wrote The Book of Revelation Made Clear with the co-creator of the Left Behind series, Tim LaHaye.