For the ailing New York Herald Trib une, its "Tangle Towns" contest has been as stimulating as a double shot of whisky.
After the contest started four months ago, the paper picked up about 70.000 new readers. To win the $25,000 in prizes, contestants have to guess the names of towns in New York state represented by scram bled anagrams (see cut) and described in such clues as: "People of one religious faith from all over the state gather here for an annual meeting. It is a small country village and was first settled about...
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