Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1942 — Page 8
$10,000.00 $2,000.00 $1,000.00 . $500.00 . $250.00 . « $250.00 $250.00 $100.00 NINTH PRIZE . $100.00 TENTH PRIZE . . ' $100.00 Next 90 PRIZES, Each ss, $450.00
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take your mind off of solving the * puzzles, but, J just for a moment, may I extend the ip antl suggest that we take just a acquainted. Péople enter contests to win money. They enter se-
the I he ro Die Our he our puzzle experts, our skilled employees are supervising every detail of this contest. You can r with confidence, with safety, with complete assurarice that your interests, as a contestant, will be safe in every possible way. . The largest puzzle contests ever offered in all the history of ts have been conducted by our organization. In a EE Qrganization conducted contests in which more than a half million dollars ir) prizes went to the rightful winners. Year after , we have conducted the puzzle cons tests for most of the large rs in our country. Name any big| puzzle contest, conducted by a news. paper in the past ten years—nine chances out of ten the contest was conducted by Publishers Service. I mention this|in a spirit of getting acquainted with you, as a contestant. You are seriously trying to win $10,000.00 as First Prize in this contest. We, in charge of the contest, want you to know that if you are ENTITLED to win this $10,000,00 Prize, you SHALL win|it, and that the honor and good name stand squarely behind this consmallest detail,
Why Is This Contest Being Conducted ? There is a a reason for every contest. ' Newspapers want more readers. Commercial companies want customers. Banks want more depositors. Chriss Someries want more policy holders. THIS particular contest is being conducted for Music Appreciation Prpjects, 8 national organization which
has branches inimany cities throughout the country, =
Why is Music{Appreciation Projects conducting this contest? Here is the’ In order to its records with a vast number of people who will ultimately become fond of good i iy y Suichaers of phonograph records i¢. Let me express it even more clearly. may not have the slightest interest erhaps you are convinced that good ‘musié¢ is “too highbrow” or “too long-haired” or. § oo high class” for Music A means of this interest in good music and a greater familiarity with the names of th great composers and the great artists. - As you solve the various puzzles, all of which ‘have something to do with music, we believe you will be bound to feel c to music in general and a little bit i about the possibilities of music to
and Rp 1,000 dealers handling its product.
tion Projects doesn’t think so. By
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u solve the puzzles and submit them the rules, you will automatically be up of beautiful phonograph records
this contest is being conducted. It is a contest of kill, and you don’t rieed to know anything about music in order to enter and win. If you ‘enjoy a puzzle test, efficiently managéd in every detail, you'll like this one. We hope you enter and we wish you every st ccess consistent with fairness to every entrant. | . ru see you ood in enother chat. -C. E.
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test we hope to induce a friendlier.
the letters total and you are left with P-AD-ERE-W,. The Add the letters S-K-I\ and you have the PADEREWSKL
Tovar we fascinating contest of skill. You can enter at once. Notice the Entry Form in the lower
right corner of this page. On this page find complete details, the Official Rules, the list of 1 p Prizes, and the First Week's Series of Puzzles.
As you will note, Prize is $10,000. There are 99 other prizes. You win in solving puzzles and submitting your solutions in a ance with the rules. We invite you to enter with full confidence that this contest will be conducted (under the most efficient methods known to contest ment. The direction of this contest is in the hands of America’s foremost contest organi- _ zation, the Publishers Service Company, the same company that for’ many years has conducted the larger puzzle contests for the nation’s leading newspapers.
Send in Your Solutions Weekly in Series of Six
In this contest, you solve a series of six puzzles each week for a period of 15 weeks, and you submit your answers weekly. The six puzzles released each week wilt be known as a SERIES. The first week’s series is printed on this page, together with an ENTRY FORM. After you solve the puzzles, fill in your solutions on the ENTRY FORM vrinted. in the lower right corner of this page.
Do You Understand Howtto Solve the Puzzles?
In case you do not have a clear as to how to solve the puzzles, notice the Sample Puzzle, and the explanation, printed on the upper left side of this page. Be sure that you understand the explanation of the Sample Puzzle before you try to solve the first 6 Official, Puzzles on this page.
Individual Files
Once you enter this contest, we will mail you the various weekly series of puzzles as they are currently issued. When we receive your entry, vour own private file will be established, and each week your solutions will be carefully filed and safeguarded. At the conclusion of: the contest, you can check your file against that of any winner. Furthermore, with the awarding of prizes, full information will be published in the newspapers and mailed to all contestants setting forth the names and addresses of all winners, together with the correct solutions to the puzzles and the number of puzzles correctly solved by each winner.
Enclose 15¢ in Coin with Bach Weekly Series of Answers
When sending in each weekly series of answers, enclose 15¢ in coin, in accordance with Rule No.\7. At the conclusion of the contest, all contestants who have submitted a complete set of answers in the contest will receive a special group of recordings entitled “The World's Greatest Music,” consisting of ‘symphonic selections’ by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Tschaikowsky.
Why this Contest is Being Conduched This contest gives YOU an opportunity to win as much as $10,000+n cash. It gives Music Appreciation Projects a chance to win thousands of new friends and customers for MUSIC APPRECIATION RECORDS, the new, beautiful line of phonograph records of the World's Greatest Music, distributed nationally by the Continental Music Company and 'pld by more than one thousand music dealers in the United States. But, remember, it isn’t necessary‘that you know anything about music in order to enter and win. Perhaps you don’t know one note from another; perhaps you can’t even distinguish Turkey in the Straw from Schubert’s Serenade. Nevertheless, if you solve the puzzles, and submit them in accordance with the rules you have every opportunity to WIN! As the contest proceeds we hope and believe you will become more interested in music and things musical; we trust that the contest will stimulate your curiosity about good music and the immortal composers who gave it to
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the world. At the conclusion of the. contest, every person who has submitted a complete set of answers will receive : of recordings of the World's Greatest
zles and fill in your solutions on lished in the lower right corner
Box 17, Trinky Station, New York, N. Y.
Kushly PRINT santa; addioss and yoliaclutions Entry Form by Midnight of Saturday night, March 14th, but \ not later than Thursday night, March 19th. Do not es; send ONLY the Entry Form. In enclosing 15 cents
CONTEST EDITOR, Music Appreciation Content, P.O
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“1. This contest is open to everybody except employees and relatives -of employees oi the varioas organizations pesified in Rule 11 of these ing, anywh
Official Rules. :
2. A group of 90 puzzles will be offered for solution. The solutions to puzzles " be names and terms identified with the world of
sic.
|] 3. A First Priz | of $1400.00 ; in Cash or in Defense Bonds snd 99 other prizes will be paid to the 100 persons who, by their submissions, t scores i in the contest in accordance with these
achieve the hi Official Rules.
- 4, The puzzles ill be issued for solution in weekly series of six; and solve and submit solutions EACH WEEK. zles bears the release date of Thursday,
contestants are gsked to The Ist Week's of 6 Wteeh 12th. Thursday, for fourteen additional be another weekly series to solve. Contestants sh
rzles and it solutions to. same during the week owing
THE RULES ---Please Read Them Carefully
clipped from the newspaper or can be obtained, merely for the askere Music Appreciation Records are sold. In addition, all puzzles, as issued, will be mailed to all persons who enter the contest.
6. Neatness will not count. Do not decorate your answers, Just submit your solutions in accordance with the rules. In case of ties, if two or more persons tie in submitting the corfect solutions to all of the
contestants and thie prizes will be awarded in the order of the accu-racy-of the submissions of those contestants to a first; and if neces. sary, a second tie ing group of puzzles. In case tie-breaking puzzles are required in order to determine the winners, at the discre- . tion of Music Appreciation Projects, in order to insure fairness and individual effort, contestants may be ired to work tie-breaking puzzles, without assistance, at a duly location. In such weeks, the event, carfare or the expense of transportation both w d ive the vided for the contestant. In case a second tie- ed
hae So date of series, In submitting the solutions for any cur-
estant is privileged o to submit s ing series. Th *, statestint enterin Week, should mit both series, and so Rule No.7.
requested te , mail their solutions,
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puzzles, then the first two or more prizes’ will be reserved for those
series of solutions with fifteen cents in coin. An individual file will be set up for each contestant. At the conclusion of the contest, éach contestant who has submitted a complete set of solutions for this contest will receive a special group of rgpords entitled “The World's Greatest Music,” containing symphonic thoven, Brahms and Lim
OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM Music Socuest Manager Date. + P. 0. Box 17, Trinity Station, New York, N.Y. 1 submit the following as my solutions to Pussies 146 in your Pussle
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