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 FIND THE WORD

_ Each line of the following poem provides a clue to a single

letter of a certain 11-letter word. How quickly can you find
the letters and identify the word?

My first is in club, but not in mace;

My second in lineage, but not in race;
My third is in spruce, but not in larch;
My fourth is in journey, but not in march;
My fifth is in Odin, but not in Lok;
My sixth is in herd, but ot in flock;
My seventh in park, but not in lawn;
My eighth is in bishop, but not in pawn;
My ninth is in gnu, but not in yak;
My tenth is in russet, but not in black;
My eleventh in sack, but not in cape;
My whole was a firearm of ludicrous shape.
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- THESE HAVE TROUBLED MANY

Judging by the numerous and constant requests for
information on them, these two puzzles are the most en-
duringly popular and troublesome posers of our time.
“I’ve worn out dozens of pencils and erasers, and
reams of paper but to no avail, will you please give the
answer?’’ is the typical reader comment.
We’ll try. But don’t be disappointed at the answers.
‘No one, to our knowledge, has ever evolved a wholly
satisfactory answer to either problem.

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_ 1. The problem is to connect the three houses with
“electricity, gas and water (all three are to be connected
to each house) from the outlets, designated E, G and W,
without any of the connections crossing each other at
any point.
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that crosses each different line composing this rec-
tangular figure without crossing any of the lines twice. A
- solution for this bears the name of Leonard Euler, cele-
brated Swiss mathematician.

A MIXED UP CANDY COUNTER

3. A confectioner buys two grades of hard candy,
one at 32 cents a pound, and a better grade at 40 cents a
pound. He mixes together some of each, and sells the
mixture at 43 cents a pound as a “‘special,’’ and makes a
profit of 25%. That being the case, how much of each
kind must he put together to make a mixed lot of 100
pounds that’ll bring 25% profit? |

CASH AND CARRY

4. A well-known citizen walked into the hat store to
buy a new hat. The hat he selected cost $10, but he
hadn’t that much money in his pocket. So he made this
proposition to the store manager:
“If you will lend me as much money as I havesin my
pocket I will buy that $10 hat.’’
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* The 1manager agreed and the hat was bought and paid
for.
Then the highly-respected citizen went to afore
store and repeated his proposition. This time he bought
and paid for a $10 pair of shoes. And at a third store the
same proposition enabled him to buy a $10 umbrella.
After paying for the umbrella he hadn’t a cent left.
How much did the highly respected citizen possess
when he walked into the hat store?

ROLL OUT THE BARREL?

5. There is a barrel full of water. Your job is to take
out as much water as necessary in order to keep the bar-
a rel exactly half-full.
Can you think of a way to determine, without measur--
ing devices, whether and when the barrel is half full?

TOPNOTCH MEN ARE AT ODDS

6. Naturally, top scientists don’t always see eye to
eye, and it is understandable that as a matter of pride
each wishes to be proven correct. For instance:
Aye and Bee, electronics experts, had spent the
greater part of the morning adding finishing touches to a
tardy satellite project. It was necessary now only to per-
form one more phase of their operation and the task
would be complete. To wit: Thirty different electronic
tubes were to be placed in 30 different sockets. Since

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of consulting plans.
But here’s where the trouble began. Blueprints were
at headquarters under lock and key. Aye insisted they
refer to the charts, even though it would take an hour
and a half to get them. Bee maintained that it would be
quicker systematically to try each tube in a socket until
they hit the right one.
Finally, after much arguing, it was agreed the two
men would each take 15 tubes. Aye set out after the
plans, and Bee began immediately to employ his trial
and error system.
As it turned out, the breaks were against Bee, for he
placed a tube in the right socket only after trying all the
other possible sockets each time. It took a third of a
minute for each try.
Assuming that Aye lost no time in picking up the
plans, which man finished first?

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 BIRTHDAY CALENDAR
7. Allen, Ben, Carl and Dan are looking forward to
their birthdays. Allen’s birthday, which comes in the
month of October, is 15 days before Ben’s. Carl’s birth-
day is 23 days before Dan’s and 24 days after Ben’s.
Can you name the dates (day and month) of the
boys’ respective birthdays if one is in January?

TAKE A WALK
8. A group of hikers set out for a destination seven-
ty-two miles distant. Stops were decided on at certain
“distances along the way for refreshments and rest. Just
to make things interesting, the leader stated the distance
_of six of the stops from the starting point as follows:
1. The second third of the first third of the last half
of the hike.
2. The last third of the first half of the. last half of
the trip. ;
3. The first third of the second third of the first half
of the total distance.
4. The last third of the first half of the first half of
the trip.
5. The second third of the first half of the last quar-
ter of the hike.
6. The first quarter of the second half of the last
third of the trip.
What was the distance of each of these six stops from
_the starting point? ,
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CAN YOU SPOT THE NUMBERS?

9. Seven other numbers fall between 1 and 9, of
course. How quickly can you place one of the seven in a
circle on each of the seven horizontal rows between 1
and 9 in such a way that no two numbers, including 1
and 9 are in the same column or the same diagonal row?
There is but one contingent stipulation: Numbers
must be arranged in numerical order from top to bot-
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 CAPITAL LETTERS?
10. You needn’t be a veteran traveler to recognize
the following European capital cities from their begin-
nings or ends:
Se Se is has a crazy start.
Peg ey has a fighting start.
(eo Seanereres has a fatherly start.
|e spanise ends with a bovine.
eee ane ends with poultry.

ANSWER IN 1 MINUTE
11. A suit and a topcoat cost $150. The suit cost
$26 less than the coat. How much was the suit?

‘PLASTERED NUMBER TEST

12. Was Whitehead the plasterer angry when he

saw the figures above inscribed in the freshly finished
wall? On the contrary, being a puzzle fan he was
amused. Whitehead saw in the figures a curious problem
in addition.
‘‘Here are three sets of digits,’’ he declared, ‘‘three
_ sevens, three ones and three nines. I can see a way possi-
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ble to cross out six of these, leaving three, which when
added together will total 20.” How did he achieve this
total? :

MATH-SPELL TEST
13. Iama word of five letters. Multiply my fifth by
two and you have my first. Divide my first by twenty and
you have my third. Divide my third by five and have my
second or fourth.

SUBJECT TO THOUGHT
14. A story of numbers is involved below. Can you
substitute numerals for letters so that the ‘‘thought’’ adds
up?
WRITE
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STORY

SEE THROUGH BEANS?

15. Suppose you were asked to guess the number of - |
beans in a jar. You are given this clue: The number
therein, when divided by 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7,8, 9 and 10, will
always leave a remainder of one. How many beans are
in the jar?
 HOW DO YOU FIGURE?
16. Cross-digit problems are solved similarly to
crossword puzzles with this exception: numerals are

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1. On the golf course, the Grill and Bar is the —th

hole.
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7... Series: 2, 5; 10, —, 26, 37.
9. Each of Jim’s brothers has as many sisters as he
has brothers but each sister has twice as many brothers ©
as she has sisters. How many boys in the family? How
many girls?
10. One less than three dozen.
11. Two score and two.
12. Two less is 20 times 2 cubed.
14. The product of these two numbers is 97.
15. The proper fraction — —ths, if turned upside —
down, has the same value.

DOWN

1. A suit for every day of the week.

2. If 45 seconds elapse between a bolt of lightning
and the clap of thunder, how many miles away was the
flash?
3. Half a score.
4. America: In fourteen —, he set sail — it
And they put him in jail — it.
5. Usual number of prongs: farmer’s work fork; din-
ner fork; pitch fork; tuning fork.
7. Teen age: — to —.
8. Number of letters in name: - Windy City; City of —
Light; Bean Town; Motor City.
13. Gun salute for Queen Elizabeth’s new baby.
15. A coroner’s jury.
16. Forenoon time in Seattle at noon in New York.

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17. A match game played by women bowlers rolled
up a set of scores not only unusual but forming an in-
teresting puzzle. The good form in which the players
rolled you can judge from the fact each of the two
players scored eight consecutive strikes. Then each
player failed to mark in the ninth frame. Both redeemed
themselves, however, by striking out. So the game
resulted in a tie, each player scoring 263 pins, although
neither contestant scored the same number of pins in the
ninth frame.
_ How quickly can you figure out the scores of the two
and show what each one did in the ninth frame? (If you
do not know how to figure the score, ask one of your
bowling friends to help you.)

MONEY OF ACCOUNT
18. Lily, who has been saving up for several months
to buy her baby brother a birthday present, opened her
piggy bank to find out how much it contained. She
counted exactly one hundred coins having a total value
of five dollars. ;
How many different kinds of coins were there and
how many of each were in Lily’s piggy bank?

THE DUMB HOBO

19. A group of hobos was established in a ‘Jungle’’

near the railroad, and were all set to start cooking a

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 wonderful stew. Each of them had aparticular job to do ;
in connection with the preparation of the meal. The ~
hobo whose job it was to get the wood for the fire was
somewhat lazy both in mind and body. Nearby was a
line of stakes set at 10-foot intervals by surveyors. There
were 100 of them and the hobo decided to save himself —
the work of cutting wood by pulling up the stakes. He ;
didn’t think clearly and when he started at one end of the
line he brought each stake back to the fire as he pulled it
out of the ground.
How far would he have traveled if he had kept this up
till he had pulled up all of the surveyors’ stakes?

TRIANGULATION STUDY

20. Shown shaded, above, is a small triangular area,

AFE. This portion of the trapezoid ABCD lies within ~
. the confines of a number of other triangles contained in
the larger figure.
Of how many triangles do you say the shaded portion
is a part: Six, Eight, Ten, More? After you have con-

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sidered your answer, list triangles of which AFE is an in-
_tegral component on paper.
Remember, only triangular figures are to be con-
sidered in your answer.

IT’S BY YOUR LEAVE

21. Ina book containing 100 leaves, on what leaf is
page 49? Better think this puzzler over very carefully
before you begin to answer it.

OLD QUESTION RAISED AGAIN | —

22. A very old question is how to put 11 persons in-
to 10 single beds, in accordance with the ancient tale
told about an innkeeper who had a sudden influx of
travelers, 11 arriving in one party and demanding -
- separate beds. The host had only 10 beds at his disposal,
but he managed to accommodate them as follows:
He put two in the first bed, with the understanding
that the second would have a bed to himself later, after
the others were settled. He then put the third in the sec-
ond bed, the fourth in the third bed, fifth in the fourth
bed, sixth in the fifth bed, seventh in the sixth bed, eighth
in the seventh bed, ninth in the eighth bed and tenth in
the ninth bed. He thus, the tale concludes, had one bed
_left, which the eleventh man, who was temporarily
_ located in the first bed, was then given.
It naturally will be understood by our readers that this
problem is not supposed to be capable of rigid math-
ematical proof. It is based on a paradoxical proposi-

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 tion, but the error is so cleverly concealed that it often —
eludes detection. Do you see it?

SHADOW BOXING
-23. Soldiers A and B were standing at attention side
by side at noon on a perfectly level parade ground. A is
exactly six feet tall and at that particular hour of the day
his shadow measured four feet six inches.
It was noted that B’s shadow was somewhat shorter
than A’s. This was not surprising because B is eight
inches shorter than A.
How long was soldier B’s shadow?

CUT CAPERS WITH A PENCIL?

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24. In the figure at left, above, five straight lines
drawn inside the rectangle divide the figure into six
equal triangles.
_ How quickly can you produce six similarly equal
triangles in another way, starting from the corner
marked A in the other rectangle, and drawing only four
straight lines without once lifting the pencil from the :
paper?.

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Remember, this time you are to draw only four divid-

ing lines, but these must be drawn in a continuous mo-
tion.

CAN YOU COUNT?

25. If twenty times a certain number exceeds a third
of that number by two hundred and thirty-six, what is
the number?
Time limit: two minutes.

PIN THE TALE ON THE PREZ

_ 26. Who’ll be the next U. S. President? It’s
anybody’s guess. Anybody’s guess, too, are the answers
to the following questions, each of which concerns afor-
mer U. S. President. How many can you identify cor-
_ rectly?
1. He was once arrested for speeding while driving
a team of horses through the capital streets:
2. He saw himself burned in effigy in front of the
_ White House:
3. He was the recipient of a 1,500 pound cheese:

4. He wrote his own epitaph:

5. He lived to the ripe old age of 90:
6. He was so poor at his death that he was buried at
.the expense of friends:
7. He was the first to ride to his pe euralicn in an
automobile:
8. He was bined without funeral services:

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10. He was the first candidate to become President

who was born in the United States:

WHERE AT 40?
27. Tom has traveled a bit. He has spent (in this or-
der) a third of his life to date in the United States, a sixth
of it in India, twelve years in Egypt, half the remainder
of his time in Australia, and as long in —— as he
spent in India.
Where did he spend his fortieth birthday?

SHIP AND BOILERS SOON PARTED

28. A ship was as old as its boiler was when the ship
was as old as its boiler was when the ship was as old as
the boiler is now. When the boiler becomes twice as old
as the ship is now, the combined ages of ship and boiler
will be 51 years.
What are the present ages of ship and boiler?

THE CARNIVAL WHEEL

29. You can have some fun without risking loss of
any money on this carnival wheel.
To win, insert in the outer circles whatever numbers —

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are necessary to make the total of all the numbers in
each spoke the same. That is, in each row of seven num-
bers extending from rim to rim across the diagram.
Begin with the circle indicated and proceed to the
right. There’s a systematic solution that can be found
with a little study.

TO EACH HIS OWN INITIALS

30. Everyone knows his own name, of course, but

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there are circumstances in which you might wish it were —
changed. This letter maze is an example.
Place your pencil on the first letter of your name, then
trace through to the center of the maze and see if you
can find a path that will lead to the first letter of your —
last name. Each time a wrong path is taken, return to the —
center and start anew.
If you are feeling extra adventurous, see how quickly _
you can spell out your full name in the manner
described.

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 FIGURE IT OUT?
31. Fill in the missing figures in this division prob-
lem. Noting that 8 times the divisor gives only three
figures in the product, you will infer that the first figure
in the divisor must be 1, and that the second figure, too,
must be very small.

SRS) GO
 THIS IS SUM YEAR TO COUNT
32. See if you can identify this important year in
American history. Its first two digits form a number
whose square is 289. The square of the number com-
posed of the last two digits is a number that is 4,000
greater than the number that indicates the year in ques-
tion. The sum of the four digits that indicate the year is
21. What year is it?

COIN CATCHER
33. When tricks are being shown at a party, standa —
dime or a penny on end and invite onlookers to guess —
how many dimes or pennies would be needed to make a
pile as high as the top edge of the coin you are using.
You’ll probably get guesses all the way from six to fif-
teen.
Take a look at a dime or penny yourself and see if you
- can guess the correct number. Most guesses are low.

WHICH THREE FAIL TO JIBE?

34. Just use your eyes to find what’s required in this
test.
At a quick glance, all the acrobats appear to look —
alike. But that’s erroneous. Three of those pictured do
not conform in detail with the rest. Time yourself and
see how long it takes you to single this trio out.

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 FIND THE WORD
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35. Each line of the following poem provides a clue

to a single letter of a certain 11-letter word.
How quickly can you find the letters and identify the ‘
word?
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37... This windmill will not work unless the wings are
in balance. To make them balance, it is necessary to use
the digits in the center to form 16 two-digit numbers.
For instance: 11, 12, 34, etc.
When these 16 numbers are placed in the windmill’s
arms,
arms, the sum of the numbers in each of the four
excluding hub numbers, should be equal.
How quickly can you balance this mathematical
_ windmill?

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 A RIVER OF DOUBT
38. The man for whom it was named called it ‘“The
Great River.’’ It has also been known as the Mauritius,
the Nassau, the Manhattan and the Montaigne. A
stretch of it remains designated BY a point of the com-
pass. What river?:
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HOW OLD IS SHE?

39. Janice is twenty years old. She is twice as old as
Martha was when Janice was as old as Martha is now.
How old is Martha?

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40. Ifa knife weighs as much as a spoon and a fork,

and five spoons weigh as much as a knife and a fork, a
plate as much as a knife and a spoon, and a fork weighs
four ounces, how much do the other things weigh?

HURDLE THROUGH IN THREE?

41. In the design of this variation of the age-old but
very fascinating maze puzzle you will note that dots ap-
pear in groups of threes. Each dot represents a hurdle. A
runner contestant about to enter the maze must observe
this rule: If he passes any one hurdle of a group of three,
he must pass all three. Another rule is that channels
once traversed must not be used again. Object, of

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 course, is to ‘‘run’’ through the maze from entrance at
top left to exit at bottom right.
Passing through all four groups of hurdles is not
necessary. If you can complete the assignment without
_ passing any group of hurdles that’s permissible, too.
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~ GIVE YOUR TONGUE A TEST

42. Repeat the following aloud as rapidly as possi-
_ ble:

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 Slim Jim grinned a grim grin that gave Sally Swift’s :
sick sister Hester hysteria.
Six sick slaves slept sidewise in the sisi shed shade.
Sam Sherman sharpened seventy saws.
Seven shiny seaplanes soared southward Sunday.
Simpson Shipley saw Sue Shaw selling shingles.
If a shooter’s suit should suit as a shooting-suit should
suit then a shooter sure should be suited with such a
shooting suit. Say you not so?
And so I’ve gotta sleep “em cheap on sixty-seven
single sets of shop-soiled sheets.
Beth’s best beau bet Bess’ best beau Beth’s blue
blouse belongs to Bess.
Terrence Thyllis tallied Tillie’s tennis team’s tally.
Jaunty Jill jilted John, Jerry and Jarndyce.

ONE FOR BONE HEADS

43. How many of the following questions can you
answer correctly? You should be able, figuratively, to
feel the answers in your bones, for all of the questions in-
volve bones found in the human body. ie

1. Since Adam’s day, man has had how many —

ribs—15, 24 or 36?
2. You know you have lots of backbone, but hoy
much—28, 36 or 42 vertebrae?
3. The humerus is part of the arm. What bone is it?
4. When you’re in perfect shape you have a trape-
zium and a trapezoid in your figure. Where?
5. What is the hardest, least destructible substance. —
in the human body?
6. Is the sternum in the front of the body or rear?

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 BREAK UP THESE SQUARES?
44. This figure contains 28 squares of various sizes
and 13 numbered circles. Six of the circles, when filled
in solid with a pencil, will break the border line of every
one of the 28 squares.
See if you can find the six circles necessary to break
every square. It would be a very simple matter to solve
this problem by filling in ten of even nine of the circles
but try to do it by filling in only six of them.

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 DAD’S FLING AT DOUBLE-TALK? :
45. Dad told Johnny, ‘‘At a railroad crossing, I
noticed something. No matter how fast most of a train
went ahead to Chicago, there was always at least one
part heading back to New York.”’
As a matter of fact every train that is going ahead has
at least one part which is going backwards at any given
moment. What is it?

SIX LINES CAGE FOUR TRIOS

46. Twelve monkeys are contained within a large
enclosure at the zoo. There’s trouble between certain
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y groups of these monkeys and the zookeeper wants to
enclose three monkeys in each of four areas identical in
size.
Can you, by drawing six straight lines, show how this
can be done?

CUPS AND SAUSAGES -

47. While en route home from a cocktail party the
other evening, Tobasco Peek spotted a formation of
sausage-like flying saucers. There was a sausage before
two sausages, a sausage behind two sausages and a
" sausage between two sausages.
_ How many sausages did Peek claim to have seen in
all?

_ FUN WITH TOOTHPICK TRICKS

IDX
48. Arrange eighteen toothpicks, or matches, as
. shown. You are now ready to begin the first of two exer-
cises.
First test: remove seven toothpicks and leave one.
Second test, after restoring the original order: remove
nine and leave 100.
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 ~ LONG WAY AROUND
49. ‘‘I say,’’ said a bumptious individual toa man
standing at a street corner, “‘just tell me how I can get to
Blank Street.”’
‘‘Well,’’ was the reply, ‘‘take the third turn on the left,
first to the right, second to the right again, fourth to the
left, first to right, fifth to the left, cut across square, pass
through the crescent, take the second to the left, and
you’ll get it. If those directions are wrong I'll give you a
dollar provided you’ll give me a dollar if they are right.”’
The stranger agreed, jotted down the directions and
followed them. After an hour he was startled to arrive at
the place where he had asked the question, and to see the
same man still standing at the corner.
‘‘Why did you direct me wrongly?’’ he demanded
angrily.
The man insisted that he had given him the right
directions, demanded his dollar and received it. Why?

TRICKY PATH THROUGH THE

FIREWORKS PLANT
50. A fireworks factory stores the product that’s in
stock in 12 small buildings. There are roadways con-
necting them, as indicated in the illustration. The fac-
tory’s chief guard had to plan a route by which he and
the other guards could walk along all of the 17 roads, to
keep an eye on each of the 12 buildings, with the least
amount of retracing of steps that is possible. The route
had to start at Building B and end at Building K.

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 See if you can figure out the route involving the least
amount of walking.

THIS IS A SNAP?
51. ‘‘Your picture,’’ said the photographer, “‘in this
~ handsome frame will be just twelve dollars. But if you
prefer to take it in a frame costing only one-half as much
as this one, the price will be just ten dollars.’’ What was
the price of a photo without a frame?

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 COUNT BALLOTS
52. It’s election year, and it’ll be interesting to com-
pare the vote this year in Demosville with the returns in
the last election. In that balloting, 883 votes were cast for
the five candidates for the office of mayor. The three in- ~
dependent candidates made poor showings. If the num-
ber of votes received by Abel were multiplied twice by it-
self, it would only equal the number cast for the Reform
candidate.. Bable received one more vote than Abel, yet
if his (Bable’s) votes were multiplied by themselves and
again by themselves, they would equal the number cast
for the incumbent mayor. The number of votes received
by Cable would, if multiplied by itself, amount to the
plurality of the incumbent over the Reform candidate.
How many votes did each candidate receive?

UP AGAINST A STONE WALL

53. ‘‘Aha, here’s a clue,’’ shouted Pedro Slye.

“*Some lettering on a brick wall. I'll bet it is a message
from Deadeye Slick. Let’s see.”’
A section of the brick wall was lettered as shown.
“‘Sure enough,”’ said Pedro, after examining the wall
more closely. ‘“Deadeye was here. He’ll be back soon.
Shall we wait?’’
‘‘No,”’ said his pal, ‘‘let’s go get something to eat and
come back at the time he suggests.”’
Can you figure out the message? You’ve got to start at
the right letter and move one brick at a time to read it.

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 CHECKING ON SCHOOL BOARD
54. After the school board meeting, a number of
those present stopped in at a cafe for a snack. Normally
they would all have split the check which came to $6.00,
tip included. However, two men had to dash away
before the check arrived, so each of the other members
of the party increased his contribution by 25c to cover
the whole amount. How many men were in the party?

IS IT INTELLIGIBLE?
55. It may look like Esperanto, Ro, or another syn-
thetic language, but is it? If you will study it for a minute
or two, perhaps you can read it:
Itne verra insbu titpo urs.

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 ’ ADD PLUS AND MINUS
56. Place two plus and two minus signs in the row
of figures below so that the total given is correct:
98765432 1=621

HALF AT A SINGLE CLIP?

57. Old MacDonald had a farm. It consisted of five

square plots arranged as indicated above.
Old MacDonald’s two sons, to whom he left it, had a
quarrel. It had to be divided exactly in half. How could
this equal division be effected by drawing just one line?

SOLVE IT IN ONE MOVE

58. Here are four men from a set of dominoes. See
if in just one move you can rearrange them inastraight

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 row with the double-four right of the double-three; the
blank-five left of the double-six; the double-six right of
- the double-four.

PROBLEM IN DEDUCTION
59. A teacher was testing four of her pupils’
~ knowledge of trees. ‘‘These pictures,’’ she said, ‘‘num-
bered 1, 2, 3 and 4, show four common kinds oft trees.
What do you say they are?’’
These were the students’ replies:

l 2 3 4
Andrew Pine Oak Ash Elm
Beth Pine =~: Elm Oak Ash
Cora Elm Pine Ash Oak
David Ash Oak Pine Elm

‘‘Not so good,”’ said the teacher. ‘‘Three of you each

has two right but, one of you got them all wrong.”
Which were the correct answers?

A NUTTY THOUGHT

60. A nut is commonly thought of as a kind of fruit

growing on a tree in the same way oranges, apples,

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pears, etc., do. However, there are at least two kinds of 3
nuts that do not grow on trees, and por ve probably
eaten both of them.
Can you think of their names within 30 seconds?

THIS PUTS TWENTY MEN ON

THE CARPET
61. ‘‘In one of my campaigns through hill country,”’
said Sheik Ali Kazam, ‘‘I led a party of 20 scouts. We
were captured by Pascha Ova and taken to his castle. On _
the floor was a rug with this design.
- ** ‘Captain,’ he said to me, ‘let me see you arrange
your men at the intersections of this rug in such an or-
der, that with six or less men to a row, no row shall con-
tain a man who is not part of an even group. If you suc-
cessfully form your 20 men, I will set you free. But I
swear by the beard of the prophet I will put to the sword
every man who does not conform.’
‘*Needless to say, I was worried. But after some
painstaking thought, came up with an answer,’’ said
Sheik Ali Kazam.
How did Ali Kazam arrange his men?
Remember, each man is to be placed at an intersec-
tion of lines.

GRAVE PLIGHT
62. The following inscription actually appears on a
gravestone in the churchyard of Denham, Buckingham-
shire, England. It contains an error. See how long it
takes you to detect it.

Sacred to the memory of

Mr. EDWARD FOUNTAIN
Of this Parish, Who Died
On the 28th Oct. 1823;
AGED 66 YEARS
Also of 5
Mrs. SARAH FOUNTAIN
HIS WIDOW, WHO DIED
ON THE
23rd SEPTEMBER 1812
AGED 82 YEARS

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 OLD SOL TESTS ONE’S METTLE
63. Warm weather in northern climes:is a reminder
of this oft-repeated wits tester:
Imagine two steel rails, each exactly a half mile long,
joined together in a straight line. Length together is ex-
actly one mile, or 5,280 feet. ae
Both rails are securely fastened to the roadbed at their
distant ends.
One day, exposed to an unmercifully hot sun, the rails
expanded a total of 12 inches. Ends fastened, they
buckled at the point where they joined.

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 Assuming that the buckling effected a triangular pat-
tern (see inset, right), see if you can determine how far
from the ground the break took place.

SALT DOWN THIS ANSWER? —

64. Should you accidentally spill a small amount of
salt on the table, how could you remove it without touch-
ing it, blowing it, or touching the table?

WORD GETS ABOUT

65. It doesn’t take long for news to get around. Mrs.
Woof, for instance, received a mink coat from her hus-
band. Bubbling over with joy, she immediately told two
friends, who each repeated the tale to two friends within
15 minutes from the time they heard it; these four in
turn each repeated it to two others within 15 minutes
and so on.
At the end of 90 minutes’ time, how many friend
knew of Mrs. Woof’s new fur coat?

PASS MUSTER ON THE MOON?

66. A-surveying party of 500 men on the moon had
provisions for 60 days. Twelve days later, they were
joined by another group of astronauts who were landed
* without provisions, so both were supplied from the
original stores. The provisions lasted only 40 days
longer.
How many men were in the second group of travelers
- to land on the moon?
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 SIX-FOLD MAGIC SQUARE
67. Four of the squares in this nest of sixteen
squares already are occupied. Place the remaining
twelve numbers between | and 16 in the twelve vacant
squares in such a way that each row, column and
diagonal has 34 as the sum of its numbers.
But, that isn’t all. The nest of sixteen squares is sub-
divided by the dotted lines into five smaller overlapping
nests, each containing four squares. The sum of the
numbers in each of these five smaller nests also must be
34, making a total of six magic squares all in one.

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X’S MARK THE SPOTS
xX
X X
X X X
XX XX
XX XX X
X XXX XX
XXKXXXX

68. Starting with a single letter to replace the X at

top, add a letter each step, shuffling the letters as
necessary, to make words to which the following are
clues:
1. Beverage. 2. Short foot. 3. Behind. 4. Destiny.
5. Later. 6. In the roof. 7. More distant.

THREE WITS TESTERS

69. Allow yourself one minute for each of these

wits testers:
1. How may one person sit in a place where it is im-
possible for a second person to sit?
2. Two fathers and their two sons went fishing.
Their luck was bad and their total catch was three. But
the fishermen divided the fish equally among them
without cutting or splitting any of the catch. How was
that possible?
* 3. When the mathematics prof was asked how many
students he had, he replied, “‘IfI had as many more, one
half as many and one fourth as many, I would have 99.”’
How many had he?

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 THREE-IN-ONE MAGIC MAP
70. A magic square, anagrams and a geographical
quiz are all part of the following problem. It’s solved
thusly:
Rearrange the letters in the anagrams below to form
the names of 25 cities. When you think you have the cor-
rect names, write the accompanying numbers in the map
squares in which you think the cities are located. Then
add up the numbers in the squares. If you have situated
the cities correctly, the numbers will total the same ver-
tically, horizontally and diagonally—65.
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~ 1. Mindroch. 2. Madisno. 3. Lehena. 4. Mapat. 5.
Allsad. 6. Clabot. 7. Saveglont. 8. Growgeteon. 9..
Arico. 10. Hennecey. 11. Scajkon. 12. Revend. 13.
Totired. 14. Gwinpine. 15. Aimmi. 16. Eriper. 17.
Lemontar. 18. Wennorseal. 19. Polase. 20. Dantoy. 21.
Iospider. 22. Tatalan. 23. Potake. 24. Banaly. 25.
Temucal.

DOLLARS AND SENSE DIVISION

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4 ER 67° s
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34222123), 4.

71. Puzzlists are asked to undertake an account-

ant’s chore—that is, to see that dollars and cents make
sense in this diagram.
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The challenge is this: To draw three straight lines —
across the face of the sketch so that divisions will be ef- -
fected. Each of these divisions is to contain: (1)a dollar—
sign; (2) a number of figures whose sum is 20.
Any number of numerals may- be included in each
segment, but the total of each must come to 20. A single
dollar sign must appear in separate enclosures,
How quickly can you effect this dollars and sense divi-
sion? Lines are to extend to opposite borders. ~

BUNKHOUSE BILL’S ROUNDUP

~ 72. ‘‘Those airline fellows flying over the Four
Circle spread sure can’t mistake it for any other ranch,”’
Bunkhouse Bill exclaimed when his friend Shorty
Bullock showed him this diagram. ‘‘Now you say those
exercising paths surrounding the house are each exactly
1,320 feet long—’’
**E-x-a-c-t-l-y,’’ Shorty broke in. “‘And as Iwas also
saying, all of the members of the Richman family take a
constitutional walk around these paths every morning
before breakfast, each on his own path. Lizbeth, the
smallest, walks one mile an hour; Billy, the boy, one and
one-half miles an hour; Mrs. Richman, two and one-half
miles an heur, and Mr. Richman. four miles an hour.
~ ‘*As soon as each walks around his path four times he
or she goes into the house. Breakfast is served when all
have entered.’’
**... An’ you’re asking me at what time they sit down
to breakfast if they all start their walking at 7:45?”’
‘*That’s right,’’ said Shorty with a smile.
Can you help Bunkhouse Bill find the answer?

- IT’S JUST ABOUT TIME

73. It is interesting to note the changing demands in
man’s measurements of time. Possibly one of the first
few steps in the development of his intelligence was to
discern the orderly passage of days. Then, gradually, he
‘became concerned with hours; soon minutes; and even-
tually, seconds.
Today we have atomic timepieces that tick away ac-
curately to within five ten-billionths of one second.
Science-fiction writers, of course, long have specu-
jated on the effects of time in reverse. Just for fun,
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 let’s suppose that the hands of a clock or watch were set
at exactly twelve and moved to the left instead of the
right. What would be the correct time when the hands of
the ‘“backward’’ running clock were in the positions in-
dicated in the box below? Write each correct time in the
proper dotted line—if you can. .

Reversed Correct
Clock Time
8:20
9:00
10:10
10:45
11:30
Wwmm
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74. Answer in one minute, if you think you’re

smart:
You are visiting Aunt Matilda who has purchased one —
of those modernistic clocks without figures—there are
big dots in place of the usual hour symbols and check
lines to indicate quarter and half hours.
Time has slipped by fast. Suddenly, you realize with a
start that it seems to be ten to one. Then you become
aware that you’re looking into a big mirror at the reflec-
tion of the clock. What time is it?

TIME RUNNING OUT

75. A full hour glass runs for half an hour and one
minute and then is turned. It then runs for two minutes
and is turned, then for three minutes and is turned, and
so on, each period of running being increased by one
minute. After what length of time from commencement
of running will it run out?

HITTING THE DIRT

76. On a Pacific island threatened by invasion
forces, three soldiers started at 6 p. m. to dig two fox-
holes. One of them, working alone, completed his fox-
shole, three feet by three feet, by three feet deep, in one
‘hour. The other two, working at the same speed, made ~
their foxhole two yards by two yards and two yards
deep. At what hour did they complete their job?

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 WATCH OUT FOR ERRORS
77. You’re on your honor not to look at a watch in
taking this observation test, but don’t allow yourself
more than an estimated two minutes to find at least six
errors in this drawing of a pocket timepiece.
Study the details of the watch face carefully, then see
if you can list the errors one by one.
Remember, there are six errors altogether.

TRY COUNTING SHEEP

78. If the sheep you’re counting jump over the

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fence at the rate of 10 in 10 minutes, how many will
jump over in an hour? You have to count ’em one by
one.

HAS TIME FLIPPED?

79. See if you can answer without consulting your
watch: The time indicated by hands of a clock is 1:20. If
‘the hour hand were where the minute hand is and vice
versa, what time would it be?

HOUR-GLASS FIGURES
80. It’s between 11 and 12 a. m. In 13 minutes it
will be as many minutes short of | p. m. as it was past 11
a.m. just seven minutes ago. What time is it now?

BERLIN REPORT
81. It was noon on the dot, when Mr. Schwartz in
Berlin left his home to dispatch a telegram to his
business acquaintance, Mr. White, in New York. It took
him five minutes to get to the telegraph office, and the
formalities there used up twice that time. The transmis-
sion of the telegram from Berlin to New York consumed
twice the total time that elapsed since Mr. Schwartz left
his residence, and twice the new total was required to
deliver the telegram to Mr. White.
When Mr. White received the message, he looked at
his watch. What time was it then?

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82. The clock on the city hall requires five seconds

to strike 5 p. m. How long does it require to strike 10
p. m.? Chances are you’ll give the wrong answer.

TIME FOR FUN

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83. Are you a clock watcher? If so, there are some

puzzles which, on the face of your experience, you ought
to be able to work out pronto.
Not all clocks have the same faces, of course. Some
show Arabic numerals; othets Roman. A few omit 3, 6,
9. There are many variations.
The object in the first puzzle we offer you is to divide
the face of the clock up in such fashion that the numbers
in each section add up to the same amount.
To cue you, we give you the division into three and
six equal parts (small faces above). Note that each divi-
sion of the dial at the left totals 26. The division of the
dial on the right totals 13.

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~ In the large clock we’ve provided you are to divide ©
time into FOUR, FIVE AND EIGHT equal sections.
Here are the divisions you are to make:
1. Four equal parts totaling 20 each.
2. Five equal parts totaling 16 each.
3. Eight equal parts totaling 10 each.

TAKE 5 MINUTES FOR THIS ONE

84. If a person’s watch is stopped for five minutes
every 15 minutes, how long will it take the minute hand
to go from 12 to 12?

RIDER TAKES TIME IN STRIDE

85. Not every commuter smiles when confronted by

the sight above. That is to say, the sight of three clocks,
.each showing a different time. But one commuter knows
that one of these time-pieces is five minutes off, another
seven minutes off and a third is nine minutes off.
If the clock faces now show 10 minutes to 5, 8

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 minutes to 5 and 6 minutes past 5, as depicted, at what
precise time is the commuter looking at the clocks?

APPOINTED HOUR?
86. Emil’s appointment was really for some time be-
tween 4 and 5 o’clock. Had he arrived 35 minutes before -
he actually did, he would have been 20 minutes early;
-had he turned up 35 minutes later, however, he would
have been 50 minutes late. And had he arrived three-
quarters of an hour later, he would have been ‘‘on time’”’
had the appointment been for the next hour instead. As
it was, he arrived twice as many minutes after four as he
should have done. What time was the appointment?

RIDDLE-DEE-DEE

87. What has one leg, no head or body, and yet

wears a hat?

88. Why is a locksmith proud of his job?

‘89. What is often brought to the table and cut, but

never eaten? :

90. Who is your father’s sister’s son’s only uncle’s

- only child?

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- 91. Why is an income-tax blank like a girdle?

92. In what way are an moore ble child and a

dirty rug alike?

93. Why does the word kiss have two S’s?

94. What is the difference between the moon and a

drunkard?

95. What is the difference between a bottle of

medicine and a boy that will not behave?

96. Why should shoemakers make the best fighters?

97. What kind of a theft may be said to be the least

dangerous?

98. Who always wants what he is doing to go off

with a hitch?
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99. What happens when you throw a clock out the

window?

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100. What is the difference between a man taking

an oath of office and a suit of cast-off clothes?

101. What kind of.a girl do you naturally expect to

_ get a ring?

102. In what way are a neatly kept house and the

letter O alike?

103. Why is a rocking horse so emotional?

~104. Why is fiddle-de-dee easier to spell than fiddle-

de-dum?

105. Why do misers never quarrel?

106. What can be caught and heard but never seen?

107. What has nothing outside and nothing inside,

yet has a cover?

108. What is it that every person has seen but will

never see again?

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109. From what can you take the whole and have
some left?

110. Where’s the best place for an Eskimo to secure

cold cash?

111. Why are chickens the most profitable of

livestock?

112. Where is the best place to look for con-

tentment?

113. What can be empty and still have something in

it?
114. What is always on its way but Ne arrives?

115. Where are kings penalty crowned?

116. What has a head and atail but no body?

Mica Why is the letter A like honeysuckle?

118. Why is O the noisiest vowel?

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119. “What can be lost yet at the same time known —

to be some place?

120. What makes ariver rich?

121. Why is the letter D like a bad boy?

122. Why is the letter E so grouchy?

123. What would a lot of women like to do with

their last year’s dress?

124. Why is pouting like a ragged coat?

125. To what number can you add a letter and

make it three less?

126. What goes under the water, over the water, yet
never touches the water? ;

127. What do women consider better than giving

away a secret?

128. If it takes 1,500 nuts to hold an auto together,

how many will scatter it?
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 _ 129. What can a man always say safely to his wife
at Christmas?

130. Which is the largest room in the world?

131. When does a chair hate Santa Claus?

132. What goes farther the slower it goes?

133. What is something we all say we will do but

which no one ever does?

134. Why was the giant Goliath very much aston-

ished when David hit him in the head with a stone?

135. When can a man honestly say he runs things in

his own home?

136. What on earth can be lengthened by being cut

at the end?

137. How many wives are allowed a man by the

prayer book?

138. What can you name that continually devours

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itself in order to keep going? Answer in one minute, if
you can.

139. What. is it that the man with good eyes

generally sees less often than the man with bad eyes?

140. What makes the ‘coolest bed cover? —

141. How are a grasshopper and a grass-widow

alike?

142. How does the ocean show its affection for

land?

_ 143. What should always be looked into if you want

the truth?

144. Why should a man with a big appetite wear a

plaid vest or coat?

LET’S CLUE YOU IN

145. One of the following persons being questioned
by police after a robbery is lying or mistaken. Which
one? You are asked to play detective.

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 ‘*T have a room over the garage,’’ said the chauffeur.
‘Last night I went to a drive-in movie alone about 8 p.m.
Then I had a few drinks at a bar. I went to bed at 1 a.m.’
’

‘‘Last night I read a mystery story,’’ said the butler. “‘I

went as far as page 100, put a bookmark between pages
100 to 101, and got ready for bed at 11 p. m.”’
‘‘I worked very hard yesterday,’’ said the maid. “*I was
so weary I went to bed at ten o’clock and fell asleep im-
“mediately. I didn’t wake up until 11 this morning, when
my alarm clock went off. When I came downstairs, I
found there had been a burglary during the night.’’ Who
is guilty?

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KIDNAPER CAME FROM WHERE? —

146. When wealthy Tom Thomas was kidnaped,
police were inclined at first to believe that someone had
entered the house from outside. They based this belief
on the fact that a ladder had been put up to a window
from the flowet garden below. It was raining at the time
of the kidnaping and a witness had testified that a
suspicious person was seen hurrying toward a car
parked in a nearby driveway.
The ladder was four feet from the house at the
ground, and before a policeman had climbed it, it reached
12 feet up the side of the house. After the
policeman had climbed it, the ladder reached exactly to”
the window ledge, 11 feet 8 inches.
Why, considering these facts, did police later con-
clude that the kidnaping must have been committed
within the house?

- IT’S A TIMELY MYSTERY

147. ‘*You look tired, Inspector. Were you out late
last night?’’ asked Detective Blanding.
‘‘As late as two in the morning. But, I left the party
which I was attending at one thirty according to my —
watch. I arrived home at exactly two, though the watch
stopped at a quarter to.”’
‘Just a moment, Inspector,’’ Blanding interrupted.
‘‘How did you know it was two o’clock if your watch had
stopped?’’
‘That is the problem you can try to figure out. I used
my own watch for telling the time. In other words, I did

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not check with the position of the stars or the moon in

the sky, with the estimated time required to cover the
distance I travelled, and so on.’’ Inspector Sharpe wound
up his watch as he spoke.
‘‘Was your watch accurate until the time it stopped?”’
‘“<Quite so. I had synchronized the watch against the
watches of some of the other guests at the party. After I
left saw no other watch. Yet, there is a simple means
that I used to know that it was exactly 2:00 A. M. when
I got home. The watch stopped, incidentally, before I
"got there. I was still quite a distance from home when
the watch stopped andI insist it was exactly 2:00 A. M.
at the time I reached my house.”’
How did the Inspector know the correct time?
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 - WHAT IS THE POINT?
148. A man walked into a cafe, strode to the bar,
and asked for a glass of water. But the bartender, on
seeing the newcomer’s expression, pulled a gun from un-
der the counter and pointed it at him. Startled, the man
paused breathlessly. Then he placed money on the bar,
smiled, and left the cafe without creating astir.
Now, what circumstance or set of circumstances
might logically cause such a sequence of action?
Here are a few clues: The men were unknown to each
other; there was nothing unusual in dress or physical ©
make-up about either of them; the incident occurred
during the regular hours the bar was open. The bar-
tender had alegal right to possess the gun for his protec-
tion from holdups.

CRYPTOGRAM WAS A TRAP

149. When the U. S. government picked up the
suspect in a Texas border town and took him to head-
quarters for questioning and search, they found in his
pockets a small notebook with mysterious notations.
The suspect said he found the notebook lying on a
sidewalk just before the intelligence operatives got him.
‘He claimed he didn’t know what the notations in the
notebook meant.
There are code experts in Washington who can
recognize cryptograms at a glance and this notebook
“page, transmitted to the capital-by radio facsimile, in-
terested them immediately. They quickly decoded it.
The government agents kept the appointment the

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 SIMPLY MURDER?
.150. Johnson went to a policeman and said he had
just killed a man named Brown in a nearby street. This
was true. Detectives, investigating, also found that John-
son and the murdered man had known each other for 30
years before the crime, but had not seen each other ex-
cept on one occasion during that period. The detectives
were unable to discover anything about Brown’s life
during that period, but they established that the motive
for the crime was revenge. ee
However, the prosecuting authorities were unable to
press any charge against the self-confessed murderer
(except carrying a deadly weapon), and Johnson gained
his freedom. Study this and see if you can guess why?

WHO KILLED PATRICK O’REILLY?

151. Patrick O’Reilly, clad in green, lay dead on the
floor of his, luxurious mansion, his head crushed in by a
shillelagh.
A bureau drawer in O’Reilly’s room had not been
closed; a closet door was ajar. Detectives gathered some
blackened pearl buttons, cuff links and some green
threads from the fireplace.
Three guests, preparing for a St. Patrick’s Day
parade, were questioned:
Patricia Hennessy, a niece, who discovered the body,
was clad in a green-trimmed drum majorette costume.
Michael O’Flannigan, a cousin, small and slender,
about the same. in appearance as Patrick O’Reilly, was
clad in green, except for a red tie. He explained this

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 anomaly by saying, ‘‘A mistake of course. You see, I’m
colorblind to red and green.”’
Timothy Kelly, a tall, broad, powerful Hibernian, was
togged completely in green. ‘‘Sure and we’ll be late for
the parade,’’ he protested.
Kim O’Shaughnessy, heavy-set, broad-shouldered
_ butler, who had called the police, stood passively aside
during the questioning.
~ ‘Well,’’ said Professor Greengold to Detective Shea,
-*T think it should be clear which one of those present is
suspect.”’
You be the detective—to whom does suspicion point?

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 * MURDER VS. SUICIDE
152. ‘‘Can a person who commits suicide shoot
himself twice through the heart?’’ That was the question
Elmer asked me and I had to think twice about it before
I replied, ‘‘Impossible!”’
‘“*That’s just what the police said in an actual case
sometime ago in Cleveland,’’ Elmer explained. ‘‘A
woman was found with two bullets in her heart. The hus-
band was accused of murder. But, the investigation of a
clever detective exonerated him.’’ How?

HIS STORY DIDN’T HOLD WATER

153. When Amos Abbott, an Englishman, decided
to rid himself of his frail wife, Angela, he waited until
she was taking a bath one night, then knocked her un-
conscious with one vicious blow, and held her head un-
der the water until she drowned.
Abbott felt that the elements were with him, for the
night was dark, dreary and rainy. With some effort, he
clothed the body, placed it in his car, unseen by anyone,
and drove to the harbor. Using a boat, he rowed out on
the ocean, and disposed of the Conse: The next day, he
reported his wife as ‘‘Missing.”’
‘She was ailing,’’ he lamented, ‘‘and frequently had
dark moods of despondency, when she_ threatened
suicide. She must have gone out during the night, and
I’m afraid something has happened to her.’’
When Angela’s body was washed up on the shore,
police were ready at first to accept her husband’s state-

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ments, The bruises found on her corpse looked like they
‘might have been caused by the action of currents and
‘rocks. :
Then, Inspector Shea studied the autopsy re-
/ports—studies which established drowning as_ the
cause of death. After perusing the reports carefully, the
| Inspector called on Abbott. ‘‘Your wife was drowned all
iright,’’ he told the widower, “‘but it was not suicide. It
' was murder!”’
Abbott paled, for he knew he would be a prime
‘suspect. You be the detective: Can you espy what clue
| made it appear to Shea to be murder?

YOU BE THE DETECTIVE

154. It takes just 60 seconds to read the clues in this
short mystery drama. It should take only 60 seconds
more for you to demonstrate your ‘‘detect-ability.”’
1. Don Shame, a bootlegger, was killed by a man who
wore thick, horn-rimmed glasses.
2. Gangly and Short, cigarette salesmen, are at-
tending a convention five hundred miles away. Short has
20-20 vision.
3. Ben Dover, an ex-pug now selling books, has a pen-
chant for Shame’s daughter.
4. Art Proof, an editor, generally sports a pencil
behind his ear. Art and Don were schoolmates.

Quickly now, which man is the killer?

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 SNAP JUDGMENT?
155. Those who have served on juries and those
familiar with the due processes of law can readily appre-
ciate the weighty responsibility of evaluating incriminat-
ing evidence.
Let’s consider Exhibit A—the photograph shown.
Buster Locke, a veteran, who came back from over-
seas minus his left arm, is accused of bank robber
y.
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 At the trial, witnesses tell how a lone, one-armed ban-
dit committed the crime. A local camera-bug, able to
duck beneath a table near the bank’s entrance, took this
‘snapshot of the wall opposite. A mirror upon that wall
revealed the hold-up man in action.
The photo was shown to the jury. The sranec ie
made a point of the fact it showed the bandit had but one
arm. Patently satisfied, he rested his case, calling upon
the jury for'a verdict of ‘‘Guilty.”’
Suppose you had been a member of the jury. In the in~
terests of justice, what should your verdict have been?

TONGUE TIE-UPS

156. Robbery of the Eleventh National Bank of

Polkatoo was followed by prompt police action. Three
suspicious characters were brought in immediately:
Chester, Gerald and Frank.
Only one of these hoodlums could be blamed for the
robbery.
Brought before the District Attorney and questioned
with a lie detector, it was found that each told two lies
out of four statements. These were the statements:
Frank: Chester did it. I’m as innocent as a newborn
babe. Nor had Gerald anything to do with it. Chester
was once guilty of burglary.
Gerald: Frank is your man, I’ m not involved at all.
As for Chester, he was seen leaving the bank yesterday.
~He served time for burglary, you know.
Chester: I was never near the place. Gerald is the
man you want. I did not rob the bank. I was never ar-
rested by the police before.
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 We now leave it to you to decide after checking the
above statements carefully — Who robbed the National
Bank? Remember, two of the four statements of each
are lies. :

HOW WAS THIS DONE?

157. A Budapest salesman of materials for tailors
was determined to get out with some of the gold coins he
had managed to save from the fortune Communists had.
exacted and stolen from him. He obtained a permit to
get across the frontier by train for a sales trip. He knew
that his luggage, his pockets, the linings of his garments,
even the heels of his- shoes would be searched. He
thought of a new means for carrying out the gold coins
boldly. Can you imagine what it was?

CRYPTOQUOTES
HERE’S HOW THEY WORK. One letter simply
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and formation of the words are all hints. Code letters are
different in each Cryptoquote. Numbers are for identity
purposes only.

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 -* WERE YOU STUMPED?
Following are solutions or answers to puzzles and
posers appearing on pages | to 00.

1. As may be seen, one of the waterlines passes be-

neath one house (dotted line). The conditions of the
puzzle do not prohibit this.

2. As may be seen, the line follows one line of the

rectangle but does not cross it. In defense of this device,
it is explained that scientifically a line has only one
dimension—length.
3. Seventy pounds of the 32c candy; thirty pounds
of the 40c candy.
4. He had eight dollars and seventy-five cents.
5. Tilt the barrel steadily until so much water has
run out that the bottom edge comes into sight. The bar-
rel will then be exactly half full.
6. Aye did. It took him one and one-half hours for
the trip to the shop and five minutes to insert 15 tubes. It
took Bee one hour and thirty-eight minutes to install his

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15-tube allotment—three minutes longer than his

cohort.
7. Allen, Oct. 31; Ben, Nov. 15; Carl, Dec. 9; Dan,
Jan 1.
8. The distance of the various stops from the start-
ing point are 44 miles, 54 miles, 16 miles, 18 miles, 60
miles and 63 miles, respectively.
%. Place numeral two in second circle of second
row; three in second circle of third row; four second,
fourth; five fifth in fifth; six first in sixth; seven third in
seventh; eight first in eighth row.
10. 1. Mad-rid. 2. War-saw. 3. Pa-ris. 4. Mos-cow.
5. At-hens.
11. The suit cost sixty-two dollars.
12. Cross out all of the digits except the first two
ones and one of the nines. The two ones together make
11 plus 9 equals 20.
13. The word is civil, spelled in Roman numerals.
14. One, eight, zero, three, seven are added to five,
six, four, eight to make two, three, six, eight, five.
15. There are two thousand five hundred and twen-_
ty-one.
16. Across—1-19, 3-195, 6-024, 7-17, 9-43, 10-
35, 11-42, 12-162, 14-971, 15-69. Down—1-1, 2-9, 3-
10, 4-9244, 5-5432, 7-1319, 8-7567, 13-21, 15-6, 16-9.
17. The scores of the bowlers in the eighth frame
were 225 and 224 respectively. In the ninth frame the
first bowler made seven on the first ball and one on the
second, making eight in all. The second bowler made
five on the first ball and four on the second, a total of
nine. Both bowlers had a score of 233 in the ninth and a-
tie game of 263.

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 18. The bank contained one fifty-cent piece, thirty-
nine dimes, and sixty pennies.
' 19. The hobo would have traveled a little more than
19 miles (101,000 feet to be exact). The simplest way to
get the answer is to take the average distance, 1,010 feet,
and multiply it by 100.
20. Eight triangles contain the shaded area—AGE,
AHE, AHD, AIE, AJD, AKE, ABE, ABD.
21. On the twenty-fifth leaf.
22. The tale infers that the 11th man was the extra
man in the first bed. Actually, of course, there were ten
men in the first nine beds, with an 11th man still to be
_ bedded.
23. B’s shadow is four feet long.

25. The number is twelve.

26. 1. U. S. Grant. 2. John Tyler. 3. Andrew
Jackson. 4. Thomas Jefferson. 5. John Adams. 6. James
Monroe. 7. Warren G. Harding. 8. Zachary Taylor.
9. James Monroe (Monrovia). 10. Martin Van Buren.

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e 27. He spent his fortieth birthday in Egypt.
_ 28. The ship is 12 years old, the boiler is nine. The
introductory statement is deceptive. Naturally, an older
ship once could have been the age of a newer boiler—no ~
matter how stated. Ages indicated are based on assump-
tion that in 15 years the boiler now nine will be double
ship’s present age of 12. Sum total of 15 and 12, and 15
and 9 is 51. ;
29. One common total that can be attained is 180.
Beginning with circle indicated, fill other circles as
follows: five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty,
pry: five and forty.
~ 30. Solution is self-evident.
31. Divisor is 118; dividend is 98766, quotient is
837.
32. The year is 1776.
33. It takes fourteen dimes, twelve pennies.
34. Man wearing belt in top row; man wearing sox
in middle row and man without wristbands in bottom
row.
35. The word is Blunderbuss.
36. A. Fifteen. (Analysis shows the series to be
minus 2, plus 6, minus 2, plus 6. Therefore, the next
number is 15.) B. Thirty-one. C. Seven. D. Fifteen.
af,
 38. The Hudson river. The name North river is still —
attached to the stretch west of Manhattan Island.
39. Martha is fifteen years old. |
40. A spoon weighs two ounces; a knife, six ounces;
a plate, eight ounces; a fork, four ounces.
41. Solution is self-evident.
42. Solution is self-evident. |
43. 1—twenty-four; 2—thirty-six; 3—large bone
‘of the upper extremity, adjoining the collar bone;
4—they are bones in the wrist; 5—dental enamel; 6—in
the front; it’s the breastbone.
44. Fill in circles numbered 1, 2, 7, 10, 12 and 13.
45. That part of the flange of each wheel when it
makes contact with the surface of the rail, is actually
going backwards.
46.

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.- 47. "Three sausages in all.
- 48. Remove the superfluous toothpicks, in each
instance, leaving only those forming the letters or figures ‘
ONE and 100.
49. They were on Blank Street.
50. It is necessary for each guard to retrace his steps
over at least two of the roads or walk over nineteen
roads in order to cover his route in the last possible
distance. Here is one solution: Start at B and walk roads
i-t ee. 5, 0;.1, 10,10, 5,2, 4, 9.14, 17, 15, 12,-17,43,
16. The roads retraced are 8 and 10. The route may be
changed but it is not possible to shorten it. :
51. It figures to be eight dollars.
52. Able, seven; Bable, eight; Cable 13; the Reform
candidate, 343; the incumbent, who was reelected, 512.
53. Beginning at bottom right, as suggested, it says:
*‘T expect to be back at seven o’clock sharp.”’
54. There were eight men in the party before the
two departed.
55. With the division between words _ properly
placed it reads, ‘‘It never rains but it pours.”’
56. Ninety-eight + seven — six + five forty-three —
twenty-one.
57. A to B (middle point of CD); Thus triangle
AEB is half of the rectangle formed by AE and EB
which equals the area of the five squares.
A

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 58. Move the double-four and double-six to-
gether in one move to right of blank-five so that the
new order will be double-three, blank-five, double-four
and double-six.
59. 1. Pine. 2. Elm. 3. Ash. 4. Oak.
60. Doughnuts and peanuts are two. Peanuts grow
underground like potatoes, of course.
‘61. Number vertical lines, starting at left with 1; let-
ter horizontal rows beginning at top with A. Then place
men as follows—A-4, A-10, C-7, C-9, E-4, E-6, E-8, E-
10, G-1, G-5, G-9, G-13, I-4, I-6, I-8, I-10, K-5, K-7,
M-4, M-10.
62. If Mrs. Sarah Fountain died before her husband
how could she be his widow?
63. The break took place approximately fifty feet
from the ground.
64. Rub acomb briskly on your sleeve; then bring it
near the salt. ;
65. Two hundred and fifty-four persons:
66. The original total was 30,000 astronaut-days of
provisions (500x60). After 12 days theré would have
been 24,000 astronaut-days of provisions remaining. If
this lasted 40 days there were 600 men in all; the second
group numbering 100.
67. Top row—l, 15, 14, 4; second row—12, 6, 7,
9; third—8, 10, 11, 5; bottom—13, 3, 2, 16.
68. 1. T; 2. Ft. 3. Aft. 4. Fate. 5. After. 6. Rafter.
7. Farther.
69. 1. The first person sits in the second person’s
lap. 2. The fishermen were grandfather, father and son.
3. Thirty-six.
70. In sequence the cities are: Richmond, Madison,

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Helena, Tampa, Dallas, Cobalt, Galveston, George-
town, Cairo, Cheyenne, Jackson, Denver, Detroit, Win-
nipeg, Miami, Pierre, Montreal, New Orleans, El Paso,
Dayton, Presidio, Atlanta, Topeka, Albany, Calumet.
The numbers in the magic square are: Top 3, 14, 25, 6,
17. Second row—10, 16, 2, 13, 24. Third row—12, 23,
9, 20, 1. Fourth row—19, 5, 11, 22, 8. Fifth row—21,
18, 4, 15.
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72. Breakfast must be timed according to the pace
set by the slowest walker. It takes Lizbeth an hour to do
her four rounds—one mile in all—and therefore, they
eat at 8:45 a. m.
_ 73. The correct times would be as follows: A.
Three-forty. B. Three o’clock. C. One-fifty. D. One-
fifteen. E. Twelve-thirty. F. Twelve-ten.
74. It is actually ten minutes after eleven.
75. After the 58th turn, when the 59th is due, that is
after 30 hours from commencement of running.
76. Four hours later, at ten p. m.
77. Hour hand in wrong place for 4 o’clock; only
four minutes indicated between 2 and 3; second-hand

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- pivot not central; ‘‘6’’ should read ‘‘5,”’ ‘‘8”’ at wrong an-
gle; ‘‘X’’ wrong style.
78. At this rate the first sheep jumps on the stroke —
of the hour and the other nine of the first ten at intervals
of 10/9ths of a minute each. There are 54 such intervals
in an hour, so that 54 plus one leap the fence in 60
minutes. The answer then is 55.
79. Approximately five past four.
80. It is eleven fifty-seven.
81. Mr. White received the telegram exactly 2-1/4
hours after Mr. Schwarz had left his home. But it would
of course ‘be a big mistake to conclude that Mr. White’s
watch indicated 2:15 p. m. The Berlin time is six hours
ahead of the New York time. When Mr. Schwarz left his
home in Berlin, it was 6 a. m. in New York; and Mr.
White received therefore the telegram at 8:15 a. m.
82. Eleven and one-fourth seconds. In striking five
p. m. there,would be four intervals, so each interval must
be one and one-fourth seconds. In striking ten there’d be
nine such intervals.

84. It will take seventy-five minutes.

85. He’s studying the clocks at three minutes to five.
86. Four fifteen o’clock.
87. A mushroom.
88. He’s a key man about town.

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 89. A deck of cards.
90. It’s you, naturally.
91. If you fill either with the wrong figure you get
pinched.
92. Both can stand a good beating.
93. It takes two to complete the spell.
94. The moon is full only once a month.
95. One should be well shaken before taken and the
other taken and well shaken.
96. Because they stick to the last.
97. A safe robbery.
98. A hitchhiker.
99. Time flies.
100. One is sworn in and the other is worn out.
101. A belle.
102. Both are always in order.
103. Because it’s so easily moved.
104. Because it is spelled with more ease (’s).
105. Because they have always a-greed.
106. A remark.
107. A bubble.
108. Yesterday.
. 109. From the word wholesome.
110. In a snow bank.
111. Because for every grain they eat they give a
peck.
112. Under the letter ‘‘C’’ in the dictionary.
113. A pocket with a hole.
114. Tomorrow.
. 115. On the head.
116. Acoin.
117. AB always follows it.
118. All the other vowels are inaudible.

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 119. A needle in a haystack.
120. It has two banks.
fis Because it makes ma mad.
122. It’s never in good spirits.
123. Get into it. |
124. It’s a bad habit.
125. Six, which is spelled by prefixing the letter S to
IX (9).
126. A person crossing a bridge over a stream car-
rying a pail of water upon his or her head.
Pe Exchanging it for another.
128. Just one ‘‘nut.”’
[29. The word ‘‘yes.’’
130. The room for improvement. _
3. When it can’t bear him.
132. Money.
133. Stop a minute.
134. Such a thing had never entered his head.
135. When he runs the washing-maching, vacuum-
cleaner, etc.
136. A trench for one thing.
137. Sixteen—4 better, 4 worse, 4 poorer, 4 richer.
138. A candle is one possible answer.
139: The eye-doctor, of course!
140. A sheet of ice.
141. They both jump at the first chance.
142. By hugging the shore.
143. A mirror.
144. To keep a check on his stomach.
145. The maid said she went to bed at ten o’clock
and slept until 11 a. m. when her alarm went off. If her.
alarm had been set for 11, it would have gone off an
hour after she had gone to bed. .

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 _ 146. The fact that the ladder sank four inches in the
ground under the policeman’s weight indicated no one
had climbed it. If someone had climbed it, the ladder
already would have been sunk into the ground..
147. As soon as he got home, he wound up his
watch. It began to go again and before he arrived at his
office he compared it with another timepiece. His own
watch was 15 minutes slow, the difference that had
elapsed between the time his watch stopped and the time
he had set it going. Since it was 1:45 when it stopped,
then the elapsed 15 minutes would make the time of his
arrival home exactly 2:00 A. M.
148. The man had hiccoughs and the scare cured
him. He tipped the bartender and left:
149. The names mean nothing; the page numbers
and other figures indicate letters of the alphabet. Z, for
instance, would be 1; A is 2; B 3 and so on. The message
reads: “‘Meet me Main and Fourth nine pe enG Have
all the dope.’’
150. Brown had disappeared 30 years before, leav-
‘ing clues indicating murder. Johnson was convicted of
‘Brown’s murder on circumstantial evidence, and given
life imprisonment. He regained his freedom in 15 years.
Then one day he saw Brown in the street. Furious be-
cause of his false imprisonment, he killed Brown. Hay-
ing been previously convicted of murdering Brown, he
could not be convicted again.
151. All deductions point to Michael O’Flannigan.
1. The pearl buttons and the cuff links in the fireplace
‘point to a shirt having been burned there. The killer
would have burned his shirt if blood had gotten on it, but
then he could have had to replace it. Michael O’Flan-
nigan is the only male there who could have worn the

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dead man’s shirt, the others being broad-shouldered.
The partially opened bureau and closet show his haste in ~
selecting apparel. 2. The green threads are probably—
from a green tie. Professor Greengold deduced that —
Michael burned his tie, but in taking a tie from the clos- —
et he selected a red tie in error, being color-blind.
(It is unlikely that Michael would make this mistake in —
choosing from his own apparel. Color-blind persons are
usually careful in knowing their own clothing.
152. The detective observed that there was only a
single wound. Examination of the gun and the bullets
showed that the first one had been fired and was stuck in
the barrel. Then the second bullet when fired struck the
first and both left the gun as one.
153. Water in the ocean is salt. Water in a bathtub
is fresh water. An autopsy would show the water in Mrs. ~
Abbott’s lung cavities to be fresh water, thereby showing
she had not drowned in the ocean, and indicating foul
play. She could not have drowned in fresh water, and
then have thrown herself into the ocean! 7
154. Ben Dover, Gangly and Short are out of town;
if Art Proof wears a pencil behind his ear, it’s unlikely
that he wears glasses. Therefore, the murderer must be
Ben Dover.
155.,. Since a mirror reverses the image it reflects,
the bandit in the picture actually had lost his right, not
his left arm. On the basis of this evidence Locke must
have been innocent.
156. Gerald. It can be deduced that Chester was
near the place of the robbery and that he served time for
burglary, but a careful checkup will show that only in
the event of Gerald’s guilt will each suspect have made
two true statements and two lies.
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 157. He had some of the gold coins covered with
‘cloth, some with plastic. The latter had little eyelets inset
in the plastic. These were sewed to the garments which
he wore, carried in his bags, and had attached to cards
similar to those carried by button salesmen.
158. The successful people are the ones who can
think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy. at.
— Don Marquis
159. Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, Riches:
take wings. Only one thing endures and that is charac-
ter.—Horace Greeley
160. For after all, the best thing one can do when
it’s raining is to let it rain.—H. W. Longfellow
161. Old minds are like old horses, you must exer-
cise them if you wish to keep them in working order. —
John Quincy Adams
162. Men are born with two eyes, but with one
tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as
they say.—C. C. Colton
163. Those who in quarrels interpose, must often
wipe a bloody nose.—John Gay
164. The happiest people seem to be those who
have no particular reason for being happy except that
they are.—W. R. Inge
165. One of the rewards of a good friendship is an
almost total ignorance of your friend’s secrets.—Ben
Hecht
166. The universe is full of magical things waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.—Eden Phillpotts
. 167. The least movement is of importance to all
nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.—Blaise
Pascal ;

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 168. ‘Blessed is the influence of one true, loving
human soul on another.—George Eliot
169. The unity of freedom has never relied on the
uniformity of opinion.—John F. Kennedy
170. Bachelors should be heavily taxed: it is not
fair that some men _ should be happier than
others.—Oscar Wilde
171. I wish to preach not the doctrine of the ignoble
ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.—Theodore
Roosevelt
172. Patriotism is not enough. I must have no ha-
tred or bitterness towards anyone.—Edith Cavell
173. How many angels can dance on the point of a
‘very fine needle without jostling each other?—Isaac
D’ Israeli
174. Better build schoolrooms for “‘the boy” than
cells and gibbets for “‘the man.’’—Eliza Cook.
175. A penny will hide the biggest star in the
universe if you hold it close enough to your eye: —Sam-
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ACROSS 44 Accepted
45 Siclian volcano
1 Superman’s garb
5 Blanched
- 10 Gather DOWN
12 Castle or Dunne
13 Savor Provide party foods
14 Terra Absalom’s cousin
15 Feminine suffix WN
— Shifted a responsibility
16 Inquire (3wds.)
18 Sheep disease oo Si Bon”’
19 Scottish explorer Finicky
20 Be allowed Nigerian tribesman
21 ““Summer’’ in Toulon Shirker’s pet phrase
22 Darn it! Designate
24 Godly MNFA
OMIT Dick . OF
Pi Go aboard (2 wds.) **H.M.S. Pinafore’’
27 Soup 9 Down, for example
28 Tennis star 17 Perched
29 Iron a3 Fish eggs
30 Route (abbr.) 24 Vandal
31 Pulpit exhortation 25 Raiment
(abbr.) 26 Lithuania’s neighbor
Companion of the id 27 Perfectionist in
Gangster group language
“*Bali = 29 Grassland
Brief swim ot Brightness
Accustom 33 Contributed
Kitchen fixture 34 La Scala offering
Wall recess 39 Fluidity unit
Tester 41 Three, in Italy
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ACROSS 43 Van Gogh’s support
DOWN
Impudent
Lesser Antilles Indian Tiff
il Excite Ventilated
12 Expiate Man
WN of honor,
13 Netherlands Antilles informally (2 wds.)
island U-boat
14 Farrell’s trilogy, Longed
66
- Lonigan’”’ Placed in a container
Afternoon reception Lawyer (abbr.) :
Anonymous Richard Home runs, in baseball
CONN

Insect parlance
~ Hummed Where to find Gary
Sire’s mate Wedding attendant
Czech river (2 wds.)
Spirit lamp 17 Poetic contraction
Established 20 S-shaped molding
Scottish island 23 Soprano,
Name in tennis Berger
Maxi’s antithesis 24 Equalize
Branch of the Tai race 25*Usually (3 wds.)
Angel — Transportation system
Nigerian tribesman culpa
Indian cymbals Songwriter, Jule
Soft drink
Kooky From the
French river mouth
Unsoiled Skin
Angel of mercy Siamese
42 Spooky His; hers (It.)

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ACROSS 44 Challenged
45 More rational
Hindu title
Swiss city
Evade : DOWN
**Goodnight’’ girl
““Dead duck’’ mos Kinglike
Tibetan animal Unassisted
Black cuckoo Volunteer service girl
Spelling (2 wds.)
Subatomic particle Suffix with block or —
Durocher stock
Finale George Wells
Fort Two-footed animal
California South American parrot
avis ON**Golden ager’’
con

Gaelic (2 wds.)
Cleave Approve
Speed enthusiast 10 Hero’s beloved
Numerical suffix 17 Last Spanish queen
Czech scientist 23 French river
30 Memorable period 24 Attention
Center of activity 25 Guided
32 Dinner check 26 Covered walk
35 Embryonic fowl 27 Mary Rinehart
36 Mine product 29 Mongrel
af Famous mountain 31 Sharpened
38 French city 33 Revere
40 One of Figaro’s tools 34 More exposed
42 French pupil 39 Night before
43 At that point 4] Villain’s cry

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ACROSS 39 Wobble
40 Examination
1 Lawsuit
5 Blotch DOWN
11 Russian lake
12 Quickly, informally cm Social order
13 Svelte French city
14 Hall carpet Oo Seaway of note
15 Countdown number (2 wds.)
16 Concealed Shade tree
17 Sea bird Pixie
18 Art lover Squemish one
20 ‘‘The iscast. =~ Chaney
21 Enticement Saint whose
OonNNMNs shrine is in—
22 Fuse together Quebec (3 wds.)
23 King or queen Barren
24 Infant 10 in (intruded)
25 Cry 16 Group on the range
26 Volcano’s apex 19 Throw
27 Fall into sin ea Lack
28 Get in touch with 23 Deep red
31 Wooden core 24 of contention
32 Before 25 Get lost! (2. wds.)
33 English river 26 Meeting place of a sort
34 Destroyer (2 wds.) 28 Stop
(slang). 29 Vulgar
36 Reach across 30 Doctrine
37 If (2 wds.) 35 Persian, for example
38 Gaelic 36 Pre-arranged, as a date

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ACROSS 44 Sufficient
45 Eye inflamation
au lait 46 Franco-Belgian river
Necktie fabric
Girl’s name DOWN
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On
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12 Bombard NO
=Cling |
13 *“An for the 3 Stimulated, hippie style
Teacher’’ (2 wds.)
14 Wireless (abbr.) Building extension
15 Football pass “Nn Lasso
17 Boundary (comb. form) The old college spirit
18 Islet (3 wds.)
19 Inhabitant (suffix) id Roman procurator of
20 Landlord’s due Judea
22 Me X OL K. P. worker
24 Leg ‘0 Songstress Fitzgerald
26 Blushing 11 A cat, for instance
a} Had words Trouble
30 Ancient Greek 21 Greek T
commune 23 Little Theodore
33 Knightly title Pe Corporation deal
34 Turmeric ad Estimate
36 St. , West 28 Tiny brook
Point’’ of France 29 **Agnus°
37 Reddish liquer 31 Shrub
(2 wds.) 32 Crossword puzzle aid
29 e pro nobis”’ 35 Architectural pier
40 Run away with Fencing foil
41 Pastry goodies 42 “Once in Love With
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ACROSS 40 Contrived
41 Cleaner’s partner
Ness
Assam hill tribe DOWN
Seaweed extract
Meal Prance
Tempo Wide open
Squirrel monkey em
WN California resort
(var.) (2 wds.)
Spire ornament Before
Half a sawbuck More the dilettante
New Guinea port City in New Hampshire
Ring arbiter A Desmond’s
ANAM ‘‘The
Formic acid source Naked oS
Frosting device New Jersey resort
Formerly (2 wds.)
Hidden supply 11 Mediumistic session
Bishop’s headdress 12 Wobble
Jason’s ship 16 On the house
‘‘In Spain They Say 19 Resound
oe French river
Exclude 23 Bathhouse
Spots 24 Region of Spain
In the years gone by 25 Wee bit
Pothouse thirst a Choose
quencher 29 Former Roman
Crow’s cry province
Neophyte 30 Sample
Sapient 31 Bear witness
Sickly 36 Mischievous tyke
boy! 37 Thick roll

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ACROSS 45 Latvian

1 Mar on a car DOWN

5 Wearing a cloak
10 Greek love deity Moll Flanders’ creator
11 branch Gnawed
12 Barracks gear Head, informally
14 Peculiar Silence!
15 Highest note Wait (3 wds.)
- 16 Pinch Highway to the 49th
18 Moray Turkish measure
19 Cargo weight Balanced
20 Nigerian city KE Mock
OMAANADMNAPWN
21. Actor, Alain Pretend (2 wds.)
_ 23 Yemen’s neighbor Write
24 Awkward Recline
26 Pain Devoured
29 Snoozed Machinations
32 Peking VIP Wooden core
33 What’s this! Burnett and namesakes
34 Biblical lion Wasp
36 Make a boo-boo Convict’s hope
37 Moisten Most steadfast
38 Stocking mishap Boss
39 Alert (3 wds.) Embed
42 Raze Eggs (Lat.)
43 Other 41 Distant (prefix)

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ACROSS DOWN

Lily Soak
Mound Australian bird
10 Muscat is its capital Juvenile rumble
11 Ancient region of Asia (2 wds.)
Minor Formerly
12 Groggy (compound Tykes
wd.) And not
Turned to the right Burden
Understand Row
Bovine Body of water
River (Sp.) Cowboy’s charges
Others (Lat.) Compute astrologically
City in Texas South African plant
Carols Suit “‘pollution’’
Filched Exactly on time
Tie up, as a horse (3 wds.)
Wahine’s dance 23 Race track figure
Bangkok native 24 Earthenware jar
Coup d’ 25 Elegant
French island af Beach area
Ere long 30 Brawl :
Popular phrase from 34 European river
““Laugh-In”’ 35 Lomond
43 Suffered 36 Reverberate
as Really! (2 wds.) 38 Elevator inventor
45 Swiss river 40 Range of perception
46 Withered 41 Spoil
42 Orb

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39 Hoodwinked
Nursery word 40 Soccer great —
ON
— Cover girl
‘“*The Good Earth’’ DOWN
heroine
11 *““Sweet Molly = Sheriff's men |
Cut Refer
13 Sagacious Pest (4 wds.)
14 Kind of lamp Industrious insect
15 Took the bait Ship’s pole
16 ““My, it’s chilly!” Danube tributary
17 Noted inventor Ke Extreme difficulty
NAYADMBPWN
19 Merriment (compound wd.)
20 nous 8 Dinner course
21 Marsh grass 9 Give a nasty look
Foursome’s gadget 11 Quebec’s neighbor
23 Gone to 15 See 3 Down
24 ‘“*The Cowardly Lion’’ 18 Austere
26 Light cigar 19 Lamentation
28 Final word of the 2 Fall heavily
**Pater Noster’’ 24 Potentially active
ne Do the mat Earhart
(entertain) 26 Backbone
31 Square root of 100 27 Trying time
32 Dilly 30 Find the solution
33 Japanese vegetable 32 Film director, Arthur
34 Football team
36 Child of Adam 35 Neckline
37 Creed 36 Snake

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ACROSS 48 Adoree of the silents
49 Faithful

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province
Henry Aaron, for one ] Pitcher’s statistic
Carty, N.L. 2 Diamond
batting champion 3 Top-notch pitcher
(1970) 4 Courage; nerve _
11 “A in the Sun’’ 5 Scrooge’s exclamation
12 A.L. batting champion 6 Sen’s tenth part
(1970) (2 wads.) 7 Hartebeest
14 Fleming 8 Stringed instrument
15 Guidonian note 9 Sicilian city
16 ““Sparky’”’ ‘ ]| Fairly, Hunt, Herbel,
Cincinnati Reds mgr. éic.
21 Dubber’s word 13 Jolt
22 Tony a 16 Horned vipers
teammate of 40 Across 17 Aswan’s river
Home 18 Kind of bunt
Mouthlike orifice 19 Harvest goddess
Actor, George 20 Final
French river 23 Sound from the
Minnesota Twins bleachers
mound star (2 wds.) 24 Arab VIP
Ninny 25 Kook
Swiss river ae Mahal
A Most Valuable 28 Wallach
Player (1970) 33 San Francisco Giants
(2 wds.) star
46 Foreigners 34 Flax refuse (Scot.)
47 Nucleus 35 Raise
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‘44 Vineyard (Fr.)
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ACROSS 2 Mohammed’s son-in-
law ;
— Something for Perry Little girl
Mason Towards sunrise
Speech defect Chemist’s milieu
omWord on a wanted False god
poster KWDo in
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11 Serve the soup For ’s sake!

12 Lose an opportunity String of pearls
(3 wds.) 11 Latvian
14 Hurry along 13 Those remaining in
15 Caustic substatuce office
16 Drop bait 16 Part of a telephone
19 Choir member 17 Tennis star
21 Prince Edward 18 Entreaty
23 Defrost 20 Conductor,
24 Early (3 wds.) Klemperer
29 Shakespearean king oe Swiss river
30 Elman’s instrument 24 Hawaiian city
31 Balanced 2 Surrounded by
33 Singular 26 Direct one’s way
34 Nog of Old England 28 Limited
37 Jejeune 32 Diversify
39 Holmes’ address 34 Actor, Walter
(2 wds.) 35 Volcanic spew
44 Complete 36 out
45 Rarin’ to go (supplemented)
46 Take on cargo 38 Cheerless
47 Lean-looking 40 Before
41 Conceit
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ACROSS 41 Brief argument |
42 Halloween choice
— Wilder’s ‘‘The
of Andros”’ DOWN
Thespian
11 Maltreat Require
12 Picnic setting NO Mitch Miller’s
13 Eric the Red’s instrument
nationality 1o%) Memorable line from
14 Attired *“Don Quixote’’
15 Spread for drying (3 wds.)
16 Bunny’s mom Sancho Panza’s beast,
18 Be wrong e.g.
19 Slur over More impoverished
21 Sourdough’s find See eye to eye
Gave it a go -Magnon
23 Lingerie items Memorable phrase
24 Ed Norton’s bailiwick from Hamlet
25 Rages Consider too highly
26 Yale men Reparation
27 Hiawatha’s Peculiar
transportation Falsifies
Every bit Fit to be spoken
Halley’s Curse
Bookkeeper’s entry Marine fish (2 wds.)
(abbr.) Bulwark
Necktie fabric College in Iowa
_Appendage Statement of belief
Overhead Region
Venerate Encircle
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Haven) ; Sprite
Breastwork . Civil War name
11 Grassland Town near 41 Across
12 Raise Comice or seckel
13 Marsh Change
14 City of Civil War Uncle or aunt (abbr.)
renown Second Mrs. Sinatra
Land measure Torment
School of whales OMIUDNWAWHYNH
Kett of old comics
Wallop Athletic group
Confederate soldier “Goce”’
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Yule visitor 21 Lohengrin’s wife —
Dali’s support De Vanquished
Rose essence 24 Harvard’s football rival
Astronaut’s vehicle 26 Civil War battlesite
Republic of Ireland 27 Sheriff’s badge
Mine shipment 28 Hound’s prey
First-rate 34 Purplish color
Site of two Civil War 36 Ancient Greek coin
battles. (2 wds.) 37 Finnish poem
44 Make lace 38 Miss Fitzgerald
47 Away from military 40 Unique thing (slang)
duty (2 wds.) 42 Permit
48 Moslem VIP Stadium cheer
49 Morocco or mocha 45 In the past
50 Gangster group 46 Designate
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14 Hitch Runyon
15 Swab Roster of outcasts,
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16 Electrical unit figuratively (3 wds.)

17 Girl’s name Swiss river
18 Giraudoux play Out of favor (3 wds.)
20 Functions Consider
21 Oklahoma city Lawyer (abbr.)
ae **Boop-boop-a-doop”’ SA Place of
ONDN punishment,
girl figuratively (3 wds.)
23 Musical composition 11 Actor, Sam
25 Old-time radio’s ‘‘Vic 12 Expunge
and i 16 Step !(2 wds.)
26 Gale 19 Implant
at Part of a rapier 20 Edict
28 Wintry 23 Rosselini film
31 66
was saying”’ 24 Destroy
32 Oxford fellow Alan Ladd movie
33 Altar words Worship
34 Capital of the Bahamas 30 Fellow without friends
36 Presently Challenge
37 Steps in Immovable
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Name in tennis 43 Alias Superman ’
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10 Minstrel of India DOWN

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‘*Celeste ze ] Diminish
14 Navy man 2 English county
15 Sulky puller 3 Became tipsy (4 wds.)
i Uncle (Scot.) 4 State (Fr.)
18 Bard’s adverb 5 Feel indignant about
19 Ending for consist or 6 Bring to bear
exist 7 Greek letter —
20 Slower (mus.) 8 Abstemious; sedate
21 **Quod (4 wds.)
demonstrandum’’ 9 Hermit
23 Glut 12 Wobble
24 Performer 16 Sunder
26 Less gullible 22 Nonsense!
Binge 23 Knightly title
28 Jupiter’s wife 24 Expiated
29 Prefix for mouth 25 Minor crown
30 Passing grade 26 Cry
31 Punch 28 Faith
34 de plume 30 Greek island
35 Delight 32 “As You Like It’’ forest
37 Paint ff Beauty’s companion
39 Icelandic classic 36 Wood for shipbuilding
40 Signify 38 Flat (mus.)

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