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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1949
Page
5
A grab bag of questions and future forecasts. Sports terms appear, plus hints about famous births including a British minister and a Kansas City actress born Harlean Carpentier, with compact clues on their early lives and careers.
Central Press notes Lilian Campbell recalls an era of Hollywood glamour. The star of The Blond Bombshell and The Red-Headed Woman died suddenly on June 7, 1937, while working on Saratoga, which was never finished. the column mixes trivia and quotes with a dated “It Happened Today” segment and a stray miscellaneous list.
Includes a list of crossword clues with numbered entries across and down plus a cryptogram AX YDPesaen. The puzzle appears as a single page item, with stray spelling errors and partial phrases typical of a word game feature in a newspaper.
Ilison Fellow describes a letter substitution puzzle where A stands for L L L and X for O O, with daily changing code. It notes a sample cryptogram and cites yesterday's quote LIFE IS BUT A DAY AT MOST, SPRUNG FROM NIGHT, IN DARKNESS LOST BURNS as distributed by King Features Syndicate.
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