CROSSWORDS: 1950s

Highlights | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1954 | References


Highlights

  • 1950: Daily NYT
  • 1954: Princess Margaret

nyt monday1950

  • NYT begins publishing daily crosswords (9/11/1950) [.puz], [.pdf]
  • "The capitulation of the N.Y. Times to the daily crossword puzzle is...

1951

  • The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey book;
    "Well, I suppose it is no use suggesting jig-saws to someone in your position.
    How about cross-words. I could get you a book of them, if you like."
    "God forbid."
    "You could invent them, of course. I have heard that is more fun than solving them."
    "Perhaps. But a dictionary weighs several pounds.
    Besides, I always did hate looking up something in a reference book."
Adventures Into Darkness
Comic book: Adventures Into Darkness #10 Page 25
Public domain from Wikimedia Commons

1952

  • Crossword Quiz (Canadian TV game show)
  • Scrabble History; In the early 1950s, as legend has it,...

1954

  • "Princess Margaret of England...
  • "A minister in the India Parliament introduced a bill to...

References