Dateline: Saturday morning, circa 8 am, sitting at the breakfast table with MH. MH picks up his copy of yesterday’s (Saturday) NYT crossword puzzle, which he hasn’t yet finished; he works on it a bit, then tells me he’s stuck with the 49 across clue and the down clues which c...
from the template set by the glory years of the ’60s and ’70s that adult listeners who wanted to keep listening to new music had to create their own space. The result has been a kind of hipster adult contemporary genre that retains a focus on melodies and guitars. As Miller says, “...
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 ...