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He later moved to New York City and worked on the New York World newspaper. He is best known for the invention of the crossword puzzle in 1913, when he was a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey. [5] Wynne created the page of puzzles for the "Fun" section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. For the December 21, 1913, edition, he ...
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Advertising poster for the July 28, 1895, New York Sunday World. In 1896, the World began using a four-color printing press; it was the first newspaper to launch a color supplement, which featured The Yellow Kid cartoon Hogan's Alley. It joined a circulation battle with William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
The lowest word count in a published weekday-size 15x15 puzzle is the June 29, 2013 The New York Times crossword by Joe Krozel, with just 50 words. [ 57 ] The fewest shaded squares in a 15x15 American crossword is 17 (leaving 208 white spaces), set by the July 27, 2012 Times crossword by Joe Krozel.
Bernice Gordon (January 11, 1914 – January 29, 2015 [1]) was an American constructor of crosswords. [2] She created puzzles for many publications after beginning her career in the early 1950s, and holds the record as the oldest contributor to The New York Times crossword puzzle.
First Serbian newspaper. Published from 1791 to 1792. 1791 The Observer: English London Kingdom of Great Britain The world's first Sunday newspaper. Still published. 1794 Århus Stiftstidende: Danish Århus: Denmark-Norway Still published. Originally titled Aarhus Stifts-Tidende. 1798 Journal de Malte: French, Italian Valletta: Malta under ...
From sugar-plums dancing in children’s heads to the jolly old elf exclaiming, “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”, the poem first published in a Troy, New York, newspaper in ...
The title New York Star has been used multiple times for unrelated newspapers, including the New York Morning Star (1810–13), [8] a newspaper in the 1820s, the New York Evening Star founded by Major Noah in 1833 or 34, [9] [10] a theatrical weekly founded in 1908, [11] and the 1948-49 successor to PM.