A friendship that began two and half years ago, a month after I resigned from my twenty years of teaching art and art history, has grown and sustained. When I met her, I had been walking to shul for Rosh Hashanah and stopped to rest on a bench in the park. As she passed I called...
Butts created a game during the Depression where lettered tiles were assigned points on a crossword puzzle-style grid. Butts came up with names for the game like CrissCross Words and Lexiko before licensing the idea to James Brunot, who called it Scrabble. Sales were fairly abysmal at first...