![]() It was an instant hit, selling forty thousand copies in the first three months. Simon & Schuster had begun to doubt the drawing power of puzzles by the time the problems were finished, so to avoid the danger of starting their corporate existence with a flop, they released the book under an alias-the Plaza Publishing Company.Ī freshly sharpened pencil was attached to each copy of the book, which sold for the then significant sum of a dollar thirty-five as a selling gimmick. They agreed to pay Miss Petherbridge and two colleagues $75 for putting together fifty puzzles. That honour goes to Arthur Winn, an editor of the old New York Sunday World, in which the first crossword puzzle was published on December 21, 1913.Īfter deciding to launch a publishing firm in 1924, a couple of ambitious young men named Simon and Schuster came up with the concept of releasing a collection of unpublished Sunday World puzzles. We had a delightful, nostalgic chat with Mrs Farrar at the Times shrine the other day, and she made it clear right away that she was not the inventor of the crossword puzzle. Margaret Farrar, a small, charming sixty-one-year-old woman who helped create the craze in her youth and is now the acclaimed crossword-puzzle editor of the New York Times, is probably the most significant person in the world of the crossword puzzle. Crossword puzzles, like mah-jongg, which came up a little earlier, may have been anticipated to fade away when the enthusiasm had worn off nevertheless, they have lasted and prospered, and even though they are not widely discussed these days, they continue to have millions of dedicated addicts. ![]() First puzzle editor of the new york times: The huge crossword-puzzle mania began to sweep the country precisely thirty-five years ago. ![]()
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