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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.

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

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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