Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1942 — Page 7
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TODAY WE PUBLISH THE F Your Wonderful Opportunity. to Win
in a Fascinating Contest of skill! Enter Today! Solve the Puzzles and Mail Your Entry NOW!
START TODAY on‘theiway:to: a\winningrof | $10,000 00'Cash.. Ten Thousand Dollars!—to,be, paidatostheswinner, of First
Prize in this new, Contest, of {skill} .
On this page, {youiwill findfeverythiingryou'neediin. onderit get started. Remember ithere;are}100icashiprizes.
ENTER NOW! ALL PUZZLES TO DATE ON THIS PAGE
In this contest, you solve six puzzles each week for a period of 15 weeks. The six puzzles released each week will be known as a SERIES. The Series of the First Week and the Series of, the Second Week are printed on this page, together with an Official Answer Form for each Series. Start by solving Puzzles 1-6, and fill in your answers on the Answer Form provided at the bottom of the page, below this First Week's Series. Next, proceed to solve Puzzles 7-12, the Second Week’s Series, which are printed alongside the First Series. You can mail both series at one time, or you can simply send the First Series of answers now, and send the Second Series in later in the week, whenever you are ready. The First Series will officially enter you in the contest; the Second Series brings you gight up to date. However, before you attempt to solve any of the puzzles, be sure to note carefully the SAMPLE PUZZLE and the explanation appearing to the right of the top of this column, under the heading, “How to Solve the Puzzles.”
Each Puzzle Represents a Great Musical Name
Each of the official puzzles in this contest repgesents a musical name or a musical term. Among the names to be puzzle-ized you will find such illustrious ones as Beethoven, Brahms, T'schaikowsky, Grieg, Drigo, Caruso, Rachmaninoff, Heifetz, Toscanini, Stokowski and others. And among the musical terms that may come to light as you solve these puzzles are bass, tre” le, clef, piano, ensemble, concerto, waltz an’ many more.
4s you go along from puzzle to puzzle, you
wi. find yourself thoroughly absorbed by the
puzzles themselves, and we hope you will become more and more interested in music— which is the purpose of this contest.
ut remember, it isn’t necessary that you
know anything about music in order to enter, and win. Perhaps you don’t know one tune from another. Nevertheless, if you solve the puzzles, and submit your answers in accordance with the rules, you have every opportunity to WIN!
Enclose 15 Cents in Coin With Each 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 con-,
testants 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 T'schaikowsky.
Mail Your Entry by Midnight, Monday Night (Mail your First Week's Series of solutions by
.midnight, Monday, March 16th, if possible; but’ in_any event not later. than midnight. of ; this
coming Thursday, March® 19th. Your Second Series solutions can be sent along with the First Series, or you can send them in within the week following. Each series must be accompanied by
‘ 15¢ in coin, which should be wrapped i ina small.
piece of paper before inserting in the envelope. j Your envelope should be addressed to: Puzzle Contest Editor, Music Appreciation Contest, P. O. Box 17, Trinity Station, New York, N.Y.
How You Will Get Future Puzzles
As soon as we receive your First Week's Series, we will set up an individual file in your name. At the same time, we will arrange to MAIL TO YOU all of the various weekly series of puzzles as they are issued during the course of the contest. Each week, upon receipt of your solutions to each series, they will be carefully placed into your file and properly safeguarded. o
Why this Contest Is Being Conducted
This contest gives. YOU an opportunity to win as much as $10,000 in cash. It gives Music Appreciation’ Projects a chance to win thousands of new friends and cus tomers 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 sold by more than one thousand music dealers in the United States. 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 the world, At the conclusion of the contest, every person who has submitted a complete set of answers will receive a special group of recordings of the World's Greatest Music, irrespective of any prize won. : :
America’s Foremost Contest Organization Is Managing This Contest
The management of this contest is under the “direction of the most prominent contest organization in the United States —the Publishers Service Company, the same company that has’ conducted the large puzzle contests for out-! standing newspapers in practically all of the
. larger cities of the United States during the
past fifteen years. Hundreds of thousands of ' dollars in prizes have been paid in contests managed by Publishers Service; in one instance, more than $500,000.00 in a single year. Accuracy and efficiency are the watchwords of this organization and contestants may submit their solutions with complete confidence that their solutions will be carefully filed and safeguarded “throughout the contest. At the conclusion of the contest, any contestant i is invited to check his or, her submissions against those of any, winner.
Here's How You Solve the Puzzles
READITHIS EXPLANATION CAREFULLY
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Note- this sample puzzle, purposely made easy to show you how to solve the puzzles. Notice that there - are several objects illustrated and also that there are several plus and minus signs, which means that you add or subtract. Let’s solve the puzzle together. The first object is a P A D. Therefore, write down the letters P-A-D. Next you are told to add. the letter E, and so doing, you have P-A-D-E. Next you are told to add a SCRE W. Therefore, adding S-C-R-E-W, you have P-A-D-E.S-C-R-E-W. Now you see a minus sign, which means that you deduct the letters S and C. Deduct the fetters S and C from your previous total and you are left with P-A-D. E-R-E-W. The final object is a S KI. Add the letters S-K-I and you have the name of the immortal PADEREWSKL
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WHEN YOU SEND IN YOUR SOLUTIONS
1ST SERIES: Your solutions to the 1st , 2ND SERIES: Your solutions to the 2nd Week's Series (Puzzles 1-6) should be sent Week's Series can be sent along with the 1st in by Mond idni March 1 ie i i in as possible when ' filling in your Answer Forms.. If you y . By midnight, Oth, if possi» Series; or if you prefer, you San Seng them in don't like to print, then please write just as legibly as s you ble; or in any event, not later than midnight, # later. In any event, please mail your 2nd sah ; of ‘this coming Thursday, March 19th. Series before midnight, Thursday, March 26th.
NEATNESS DOESN'T COUNT
Neatness will not count in this contest. Therefore, do not bother to decorate your answers. All you have to do is to solve the puzzles and submit your answers in accordance with the rules. We will appreciate it, of course, if you will PRINT your solutions and your name and address as plainly
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contestant who has submitted a complete set of solu tions for this contest will receive a special group of
TH E RULES- - = Please Read Them Carefully
1. This contest is open to everybody except em. ployees and relatives of employees of the various organizations specified in Rule 11 of these Official Rules.
2. A group of 90 puzzles will be offered for solution. The solutions to these puzzles will be names and terms identified with the world of music.
3. A First Prize of $10,000.00 in Cash or in Defense Bonds and 99 other prizes will be paid to the 100
persons who, by their submissions, acliieve the
highest scores in the contest in accordance with these Official Rules.
4. The puzzles will be issued for solution in weekly series of six; and contestants are asked to solve and submit solutions EACH WEEK. The 1st Week's Series of 6 puzzles bears the release date of Thurs. day, March 12th. Bach Thursday, for fourteen addi- - tional weeks, there will be another weekly series to solve. Contestants should solve the puzzles and sub‘mit solutions to same during the week following issuance date of each series. In submitting the solutions for any current series, a. contestant is privileged to submit solutions for preceding series. Thus, a contestant .entering the contest during the 2nd . Week, should submit both the 1st Week's as well as ' the 2nd Week's series, and so on. All series should be qualified in accordance with Rulé No. 7.
§. Contestants are requested to. mail their solutions,
EACH WEEK, in series of six. The varions current Weekly Series of puzzles can be clipped from the newspaper or can be obtained, merely for the asking, - anywhere Music Appreciation Records are sold. In
addition, all puzzles, as issued, will be mailed tp 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 correct solutions to all of the
puzzles, then the first two or more prizes will be
reserved for those contestants and the prizes will be awarded in the order of the accuracy of the submis.
* sions of those contestants to a first, and if necessary,
a second tie-breaking group of puzzles. In case tiebreaking puzzles are required in order to determine
_ the winners, at the discretion of Music Appreciation . Projects, in order to insure fairness and individual
effort, contestants may be required to work tie-break:
ing puzzles, without assistance, at a duly designated
location. In such event, carfare or the expense of transportation both ways will be provided for the con. testant. In case a second tie-breaking group of puz-
" zles is necessary, contestants eligible to solve same .. will be required to accompany their solutions to this second tie-breaking group of puzzles with a: letter
of not wore than 200 weeds on th subject: Fin This Contest Affected My Interest Only. in case ties exist after all i brosking
haye been checked will the letters gel br i
originality i in description and general of final ties, duplicate prizes will be arated
7 To qualify for a orice, the somitent is feqwited
© to accompany each series of solutions with fifteen
cents in coin. An individual file will be set up for
each contestant. At the conclusion of the contest, each
records entitled “The World's Greatest Music,” containing symphonic selections by Bach, Beethoven,
Brahms and Tschaikowsky. Those who enter, but who
for any reason fail to complete the contest, will receive a copy of the specially prepared booklet, “The Immortals of Music,” containing biographic stories of the World's Greatest Composers and Conductors.
8. This is a contest of skill, Upon entering the contest, the contestant agrees that prior to being awarded a prize he or she will sign and execute under oath an affidavit attesting that he or she has not bought
nor exchanged answers: in this contest, nor used an- - - swers bought, exchanged or supplied, The contestant
further agrees that the decision of Music Appreciation Projects in all matters affecting the conduct of ‘the contest, the acceptance of submissions, the mak-
' ing of awards and the measures invoked to insure individual effort in fairness to all contestants shall *
be final and conclusive. >
9. Entries that are unsigoed or iliegible will not be considered, nor will Music Appreciation Projects be responsible for entries or communications unduly delayed or lost in the mails. EE
- 10. All weekly series of solutions, oldie with. the coins for each series es required in Rule No. 7, should
he. 2d . addressed to JPUZZLE CONTEST EDITOR, pidlichy Contest, P. 0. Box 17, Teinigy “Station, New York, N. Yo ;
‘11. ‘All employees and relatives: of employees of C G. Conn, Ltd., Continental Music Company, Music
: Appreciation’ Projects and Publishers Service Com-
puny Tae are uor eligihle So witer this custan,
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E OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM (5% = Puzzle Contest Manager, ¥ Date E Z Music APprociation Contest.
OFFICIAL ANSWER FORM (2" e)
Pusle Contest Manager, , Music Appreciation Contest, em meen TORY P. 0. Box 17, Trinity Station, New York, N. Y.
1 submit the follow ng @s my solutions to Puzzles 7-12 in your Puzzle Contest.