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3 unusual facts about Bernice Gordon


Bernice Gordon

Gordon once created an X-rated puzzle for the Happy Hooker, aka Xaviera Hollander, a writer and former call girl with a bestselling memoir in the 1970s.

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Margaret Farrar initially rejected the puzzle with 10 ampersands in it calling it "trickery", but six months later decided to print it.

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According to current puzzle editor Will Shortz, this was the first of over 150 puzzles from her the NYTimes would subsequently print.



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