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Tiddlywinks Bibliography

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The Tiddlywinks Bibliography is a compendium of all substantive and obscure citations to the game of tiddlywinks in all available resources:  newspapers, magazines, books, government records, images, audio, video, web sites, etc.  In other words, if the game of tiddlywinks was mentioned either briefly or in detail, it should be in the Tiddlywinks Bibliography.

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Newspapers—United States

(Alaska paper)

__ ___ 1972 AP photo after 1972 Junior Continentals

Associated Press wire

1 Nov 1977

Re ERA <x>

31 May 1979

Re taxes <x>

27 Jan 1981

"TODAY'S FOCUS: Junior Capitalists Learn the Ropes in Miniature City" <x>

5 Feb 1981

Re tiddlywinks up the nose <x>

16 Feb 1981

Re Haverford Continentals <x>

20 May 1981

"Kirkland Calls For One-Year Tax Cut" <x>

10 Jan 1983

"TODAY'S TOPIC: In Search of the ''Tiddlywinks Scholarship''" <x>

3 Mar 1983

"Study: Haitians Are ''Incredibly Industrious'' Workers" <x>

6 Apr 1983

"U.S. Woman Envoy to East Berlin Reflects on 'The Personal Price Tag' <x>

25 Apr 1984

Re Olympic athletes <x>

1 Dec 1984

about Doug Flutie <x>

13 May 1985

"Vice President Writes Newspaper Story Honoring His Mother" <x>

Atlantic City Press

14 Dec 1986

A1 "Gromped!"/"The Nation's Top `Winkers' Wield `Squidgers' in O.C.". Photo of Kahn <o>
A14 "Winks". Photo of Marlin; photo of kids; photo of winks <o>

12 Jul 1987

B1 "Squopped!"/"Ocean City Hosts Tiddlywinks exhibition". Photo of Kahn <o>
B4 "Squopped". Overhead photo of players around mat. <o>

Baltimore Sun

28 Dec 1973

C1 "The Morning After". Discussion of groupies in sports—mention <t>

28 Jan 1975

C1 AP "Tiddledies without a wink". Photo of Steidle and Sachs <tn>

3 Jul 1988

Mag 4 [Sun Magazine] In table of contents <o>
Mag 8 Color photo of Tucker, Kahn
Mag 9 "squop, boom, gromp, lunch, blitz, piddle, and of course, your basic nurdle" by Patrick A. McGuire
Mag 18 Photo of Lockwood; article continued
Mag 19 article concluded

Bergen (NJ) Record

22 Jun 1978

A2? UPI? "Not Essential" column re Lockwood

6 Dec 1979

D11 Sony Betamax ad: If a football game happens to have the world tiddlywinks finals on at half-time, fly by it with Beta Scan.

Bergen (NJ) News

17 May 1978

18 UPI re Lockwood

Berkeley (CA) Gazette

__ ?May 1976

Excerpt from California Monthly (UC Berkeley) Mar 1976

The Herald-Telephone (Bloomington IN)

26 Jul 1979

36 "Tiddlywinks"/"Game no child's play" by Dave Piccioli. Photo <o>

Bloomington (IN) Sunday Herald-Times

14 May 1978

UPI "Squidging, squopping, piddling: champion winks way to victory". Photo of Lockwood <c>

Boston After Dark (merged into Boston Phoenix)

28 Mar 1972

5 "MITy FINE"

Boston Globe

14 Oct 1962

81 "Harvard Humbles Holy Cross In 1st U.S. Tiddly Winks Match" by Charles E. Claffey. Photo <t>

Fall 1962

Possibly other articles in Boston newspaper

~1967

About MIT team in sports section?

21 Feb 1969

24 "`In' Cheer at M.I.T.: Squop That Wink" <h>

24 Mar 1972

3 "New England Newsmakers". Photo of Tim Schiller <h>

4 Apr 1972

3 "A world's champion and only few care". Photo

7 Jan 1979

41 [New England Magazine] "Ask the Globe". Letter from Fred Shapiro

6 Nov 1992

Living:33 "’SECRET GARDEN' UNLOCKS GATE TO GIRLHOOD FEELINGS" by Patti Hartigan (theater)
19 Nov 2000   "To What End?".  "That would be true even if he Clinton administration hadn't, for the last few years, been mostly about trifles and tiddlywinks"  
24 Nov 2003   "From coastal to kitschy to cosmic".  "The aisles overflow with everything from whistling yo-yos to such classics as Mr. Potato Head, tiddlywinks sets, finger paint, ball and jacks, Pick Up Sticks, face painting sets, Silly Putty, and Paint-By-Number kits."  
4 Dec 2003   "Unions accuse Gephardt of retaliatory threat".  '"This isn't tiddlywinks ; it's politics , and everybody's committed to doing what they need to do, " said Bob Kelley'  
11 Feb 2004   "Revving up the NASCAR simulations".  "But the will to win is the will to win , no matter if it's playing the Super Bowl or playing Tiddlywinks."  
8 May 2004   "He's in Class by Himself".  Brief mention of Larry Kahn: "Prior to Szuminski, the top Engineer competitor of them all might have been Larry Kahn, class of 1975, the world singles titleholder in tiddlywinks."  
23 Feb 2006   "Considering the Source"'''Individually, it's tiddlywinks," Hall said. ''But if a thousand people did this in Newburyport, that would be serious."'  
28 Jun 2006   "At Strawberry Banke, toys from times past".  Mention of tiddlywinks:  "Leave the Game Boys behind and get ready for building with Lincoln Logs and playing tiddlywinks."  
30 Jul 2006   "Dishing".  "OK, so I know that every sporting event from major league baseball to competitive tiddlywinks has to run on ESPN."  

NOTE (no date)

[claimed, but not found: 4 Mar 1972 page 3; 31 Mar 1972 page 3]

Sunday Herald Advertiser (Boston)

5 Aug 1973

3, 18 [Pictorial Living Coloroto Magazine] "The Champion Winker". 3 photos <x>

Boston Herald American

25 Apr 1978

1 "The thrill of winking, the agony of squopped" <on>
6 "When the going gets tough, the winkers get gromping". 2 photos <on>

26 Nov 1978

Mag 26 "PLAYING GAMES" re Milton Bradley—mention <t>

Boston Herald Traveler

16 Feb 1970

1 "Somerville Six Top Squoppers"
15 "Their Victory is Something to Flip About"

Boston Phoenix/BAD (see Cambridge Phoenix, Boston After Dark)

29 Nov 1977

Lifestyle 3 "The Bristol Gromp". Photo <o>

29 May 1984

By Alan Lupo. Re D-Day—mention. <r>

Boston Record American

1967?

Centerfold Photo

(Boston paper)

Fall 1962

By Bud Collins. Inspired Holy Cross challenge?

Bristol (CT) Press

early 1977

Re Continentals

Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee

4 Feb 1995

1> Vol. 12. "Pumped by the passion for pogs" by Larry Boynton.

"the World Pog Federation touts its authorized game pieces as the real deal – ‘the tiddlywinks of the 1990s, heir to marbles, comic books, baseball cards and jacks,’"

<e>

Cambridge (MA) Chronicle

2 Mar 1972

13 "Tiddlywinks Team Champs Hail from M.I.T." <h>

16 Mar 1972

8 "Odds Even on MIT's Tiddlywinkers" (in Mar 1972 MIT Observer) <n>

13 Apr 1972

13 "Tiddlywinkers Flip Lids"

Cambridge Phoenix (became Boston Phoenix)

?

Ad by Sunshine (could be in Boston After Dark)

4 Mar 1970

2 in "Sports Dept." <zh>

Cape May County (NJ) Herald

10 Dec 1986

45 "Tiddly Winks Invasion" <o>

Charleston (SC) newspaper

21 May 1978

Knight/UPI re Lockwood

Chicago Sun-Times

<4 Dec 1971

Bill Mauldin cartoon. Reprinted in Business Week

Chicago Tribune

14 May 1978

1:44:1 UPI rewrite? "A child's game nothing to wink at for champ" by Dave Axelrod. Photo. Re Lockwood

Christian Science Monitor

(4 regional editions: East, West, Midwest, London/Overseas)

29 Mar 1959

(Sunday) AP/Reuter "Duke Humiliated: Team Outwinked". Drawing <tg>

3 Aug 1962

3 AP "Tiddledywinks!". Drawing <t>

1 Oct 1962

13 "Will Tiddlywinks Replace Basecall?". Drawing. Philadelphia dateline

5 Feb 1969

11[E,L] AP "Tiddlywinks title seekers" <tg>

9 Mar 1970

13[E,L] "Yeah, tiddlywinks!" <tg>
7[W,M] (same)

2 Mar 1972

4 AP "Just for fun..." (in Mar 1972 MIT Observer)

15 Dec 1980

17[M] "Choosing electronic games to challenge kids" <x>

30 Jun 1983

10 "Thousands of athletes showcase talents at sports festival" <x>

18 May 1984

21 "Antique games" <x>

27 Nov 1985

47 "Learning to like the nutty, buttery lima bean" <x>

9 Sep 1988

"LIGHTLY"/"Squop a wink" <c>

3 Feb 1989

17:1 "Tiddlywinks, Anyone?" re Oxford

Cincinnati Enquirer

~2 Apr 1972

"Tough Tiddling Triumphs"

16 Dec 1986

D7 AP "He squops, piddles and winks"/"Tiddlywinks involves serious strategy for adult devotee" <o>

25 Dec 1987

D4 Gannett "How to put spark into your courtship"/"Pair offers ideas for `creative dating'" <o>

Cleveland Plain Dealer

27 Feb 1980

6E "Today's selections" (Real People TV)

14 Aug 1994

14, 15, 17 [Sunday magazine] "Like Chess, But Not" by David Budin. About Marg Henninge Calhoun. B&W photo of Marg on page 14, B&W photo of winks on page 17. <o>

Cleveland Press

1 Apr 1972

1 UPI "Americans win title - tops in tiddlywinks"

Colorado Springs Sun

20 Feb 1981

column "Et cetera"/"Flicking your wink" (via Philadelphia Bulletin)

Columbus (OH) Citizen-Journal

30 Mar 1979

1 "Titillating tiddlywinks tourney to bring gromps & squops here". Photo of Mary Kirman

Cortland (NY) Herald American

__ ___ ____

E1 "Students flipping over game" <z>
E2 "Tiddlywinks live at Cornell University" <z>

Durand (IL) Gazette

13 Apr 1972

"David Lockwood member of world championship Tiddlywinks team"

Elmira (NY) Star-Gazette

17 Feb 1981

3A AP "Tiddlywinks is nothing to wink at". Photo <z>

Family Weekly (Sunday newspaper supplement)

10 Jan 1982

26 "Tiddly Tally" with photo under "What in the World" by Eliot Kaplan <z>

Freeport (IL) Journal-Standard

11 Apr 1972

"College Student from Durand On Champion Tiddlywinks Team" by Mrs. Earl Johnson

Fresno Bee (CA)

1 Apr 1972

1 "Great Day! Fresnan Tiddles into History"

? Feb 1981

AP "Breathing difficulty caused by a tiddlywink up the nose" <c>

8 Feb 1981

"Welcome to hard dimes". Column by Eli Setenich, 3rd topic <c>

1 Mar 1981

"Bloody good show, men". Column by Eli Setenich, 3rd entry <c>

Fresno Guide (CA)

Spring 1972

"Ping pong & Tiddledywinks" by Morrie Ryskind. Editorial on detente alluding to world teams

Gaithersburg (MD) Gazette

16 Mar 1983

B16 "Villager is world champion in tiddlywinks play". Photo. Re Kahn <o>

Gannett News Service

4 Apr 1995

"COIN COMPANY HAS BEEN STAMPING THEM FOR 160 YEARS" by Cliff Radel ("A '90s hybrid of tiddlywinks meets dodge ball, the Pogs and Slammers games involve small discs, which can be made of metal.") <e>

26 Sep 1995

"GNS SPORTS", Rick Bozich. ("You remember baseball. It's the game that a year ago surrendered August, September and October to football, golf and tiddlywinks") <e>

Good Times Gazette (Ithaca NY)

24 Feb 1977<z>

Grand Rapids (MI) Press

12 May 1978

UPI re Lockwood

(Greenfield MA) The Recorder

27 May 1991

1, 10 "Don't go squopping without a squidger". Photo of Ferd Wulkan <c>

24 Jun 1991

[Expected with photos]

(Greenfield MA) Town Crier

19 Jun 1991

1, 2 "Gill To Host Weekend Tiddlywinks Tournament" <o>

Hartford (CT) Courant

16 Dec 1978

51, 55 "MIT Grad Finds Fulfillment in Tiddlywinks"/"... Then There Was Sunshine, Ferdinand the Bull and Winky". Same as Newsday 14 Dec 1978 <t>

Ithaca (NY) Journal

[Leis: Leisure section; Sun-Mag: Sunday Magazine]

25 Feb 1967

20 "Mighty Big Red Tiddlywinkers Dash Opponents ... Good Show, Hey What?". 6 photos <z, o: ETwA>

16 Feb 1970

13 "Somerville Pots Out on Cornell Felts". 6 photos <z>

18 Feb 1974

"Wide World of... Tiddlywinks!". Photo only (reprinted in Newswink Feb 1975) <z>

16 Nov 1974

Leis-1 Directs reader to page 4 <z>
Leis-4 "In the winks, it's far from kid's stuff"/"Why are these people brooding?". 4 photos <z>

25 Nov 1974

3 "A `Wink' For Ithaca". Photo of Sunshine, Bill Gammerdinger, Jake Solomon, Dean Solomon <z>

14 Nov 1977

1 Photo <z>
3 "The Tiddly Bowl". 2 photos <z>

29 Apr 1978

TV listings

16 Jun 1979

1 "Why is this man `winking'?" directs to Sunday Magazine. <z>
Sun-Mag-1 "Why is this man `winking'?" directs to page 4 <z>
Sun-Mag-4 "Drix flicks tiddlywinks with world-class style" <z>
Sun-Mag-4 "How to Play Tiddlywinks"—inset box <z>

14 Apr 1980

1 "Dragon burns Ithaca's paper tiger out of tiddly title" (possibly others) <nz>

8 Aug 1989

1C "Tiddlywinks aren't child's play, 3C". Photo of Christine Strong <o:Marlin>
3C "Tiddlywink players are popping up in Newfield". Photo of Christine Strong <o:Marlin>

Ithaca (NY) New Times

15 Nov 1977

3 photo of Severin Drix in "News Notes" <z>

Ithaca (NY) Times

14-20 Jun 1979

1 Photo <onz>
13 "He Wears the Tiddlywinks Crown". 2 photos <onz>

10-16 Apr 1980

1 Photo <z>
13 "World Match This Winkend". Photo <z>

17-23 Apr 1980

5 "Drix Defeated". Photo <nz>

(and a previous issue)

Journal newspapers (Montgomery (MD), Fairfax (VA), Arlington (VA))

29 Jun 1984

B1 UPI "Winks"/"Winkers `tiddle-late` in tomorrow's tourney" by Robert Doherty. Color photo of Kahn. B&W photo of strobe wink pot by Tucker <o>
B2 "Winkers turn out for Saturday tourney". Photo of Kahn <o>

LaSalle-Peru (IL) Daily News-Tribune

1 Mar 1979

2 "There's more to a wink than a flip; Squidger can nurdle, piddle, squop"

Los Angeles Times

31 Mar 1972

4 Reuter "TIDDLYWINKS"/"U.S. Flips to World Title" (in Sep 1972 MIT Observer) <t>

2 Apr 1972

"A STAR IS BORN" re Logan UT version of game (see NW6)

10 Jan 1992

pp D-1 [Home Edition] "Too Many Lists of Unsafe Toys?": CONSUMER AFFAIRS / S. J. DIAMOND ("Toddlers find play value in everything--Barbies, tiddlywinks, Erector sets, Monopoly pieces, pennies, peanuts and paper clips.") <e>

14 Jun 1992

pp 5 [Home Edition] "John Doe, Meet Ross Perot; Five decades later, Frank Capra's 'Meet John Doe' eerily resembles today's political scene--although Gary Cooper was taller": MATHEWS, JACK, MOVIES; COMMENTARY ("Throughout the movie, John Doe's main theme is that free people can ‘beat the world at anything, from war to tiddlywinks, if we all pull in the same direction.’") <e>

25 Jul 1992

pp C-12 [Valley Edition] "Olympic-Caliber Craziness; Volleyball Standout Samuelson Brings the Offbeat to Barcelona" by Michael Grunwald (‘"We could be playing tiddlywinks, and we'd start whaling on each other," says Rusen, who has broken several knuckles punching walls after losses…’) <e>

6 Jan 1993

pp E-1 [Orange County Edition] "FIXATIONS" "Putting All His Cards on the Table; Edward Labate would love to sell you baseball memorabilia, but he's the first one to tell you to collect for fun, not profit" by Jim Washburn (‘"being a national chess master in the United States is like being a baseball card dealer in the Soviet Union. Who cares? It's like being a tiddlywinks champion."’) <e>

25 Jan 1993

pp F-7 [Home Edition] "The Strange Case of 'Knight Moves'", movie review by Michael Wilmington (""Knight Moves" (MPAA rated R, for language, sensuality, violence) is a game--but it's closer to three-card monte or tiddlywinks than chess.") <e>

14 May 1993

pp D-2 [Home Edition] "Edited-Just-for-You News Is Now Available in Your Desktop Computer Every Day": COMPUTER FILE / LAWRENCE J. MAGID. ("Your sports page could be limited to baseball or could include football, hockey and tiddlywinks.") <e>

23 Jul 1993

pp C-8 [Orange County Edition] "It's Not Just a Simple Game for Old Folks; Lawn bowling: County residents who will play at Pacific championships say the sport is challenging and highly competitive" by Barbie Ludovise ("But lawn bowling? Sounded about as thrilling as a game of tiddlywinks.") <e>

10 Nov 1993

pp C-1 [Orange County Edition] "Coaches' Tidbits Easier to Swallow at Lunchtime" by Mike Penner ("If you've never been to Titan Gym, we can play everything on that floor, including tiddlywinks, because it's marked for it.") <e>

6 Jan 1994

pp J-1 [Ventura West Edition] "FASHION" "Attire for Bicyclists Slowly Going From Nerdy to Pleasing; Retailers say better designs are coming out. And teen-agers are adding visors to improve the look of helmets" by Kathleen Williams ("Do you find the term nerd irresistible? Not that cycling is a wimpy, undeserving pastime, a tiddlywinks kind of sport.") <e>

27 Jan 1994

pp E-3 [Orange County Edition] "inside line; Brain Teasers" ("1. What game involves potting and squopping?"; "1. Tiddlywinks") <e>

30 Jul 1994

pp F-1 [Orange County Editino] "O.C. POP MUSIC REVIEW A Different Brand of Fabulous" by Jim Washburn ("As throughout most of the evening, he didn't use a pick, instead coaxing meaty tones from his strings with an odd approach to finger-picking, his digits flicking at the strings as if they were tiddlywinks.") <e>

16 Sep 1994

pp D-3 [Home Edition] "A Hot Tip for Coffee Lovers: Most Retailers Prefer to Make It Scalding": CONSUMER AFFAIRS / DENISE GELLENE ("Kids stack POGs and knock them over in a game that is a cross between tiddlywinks and baseball card flipping.") <e>

19 Jul 1994

pp 12 [Valley Edition] "Shaken and Stirred; The Quake Jolted Business for Some Shops Near Epicenter, While Giving Others a Boost" by Patrice Apodaca ("She sells the POGS for 15 cents to $2 apiece—along with thicker discs called "slammers" that are used to play a tiddlywinks-type game with the POGs.") <e>

Marketing News

15 Aug 1994

Vol. 28 pp 1 "Consumers go POG wild; marketers milk latest craze" by Tim Triplett (POGs? Flat marbles. Round trading cards. New Age tiddlywinks.") <e>

Mattoon (IL) Journal-Gazette

10 May 1978

12 UPI re Lockwood

Miami Herald

2 Mar 1978

<x>

late 1978

[possible]

~ Mar/Apr 1984

UPI (similar to Montgomery County Journal)

Middletown (NY) Times Herald Record

>= Feb 1979

possible

Milwaukee Journal

[Gr-Sh: Green Sheet]

25 May 1975

IV:2 "Tiddlywink Fever Soars in England" <tg>

15 May 1978

Gr-Sh:1 UPI "He's No. 1 - in tiddlywinks" re Lockwood

Milwaukee Sentinel

11 Feb 1980

"Fame opens the eyes of those who tiddlywink" re VFW version of the game <c>

Montgomery (County MD) Sentinel

3 Feb 1984

25 "Watch out Squidgers, here come the Squoppers" <o>
26 "It does take practice". Photo <o>

~ Jun 1984

(expected) Tempo section, re Singles

National Observer

10 Jun 1972

1 "Winking to Win" <ng>
14 "But Even the Champions Wince at Childish Image". 4 photos <ng>

New York Daily News

10 Dec 1968

28

31 Jul 1980

93 "Sports et cetera" column. "Tiddlywinks". Announcement of World Singles

New York Extra (appeared during newspaper strike)

__ Sep 1978

UPI re Lockwood

(New York) Herald Tribune (perhaps International Herald Tribune?)

18 May 1958

By Joe Suir (WW7 p4 - excerpt)

16 Jul 1958?

AP "Old Child's Game Rage in England" <tg>

New York Mirror

__ ___ 1958

Large column by Dan Parker about University of Pennsylvania team

New York Post

28 Mar 1972

5

21 Jul 1983

70 Dick Young column. Letter by Walter H. Jacobs

New York Times

(key: e.g., 17:2 is page 17, column 2; S is sports which normally is section 5 (V) on Sundays; 7:30:3 is section 7, page 30, column 3)

6 Dec 1891

17:2 Ad by Macy's (TIDDLE DE WINKS) <t>
19:5 Review of Bangs' book Tiddledywink Tales

2 Oct 1892

19:5 Review of Bangs' book The Tiddledywink's Poetry Book

2 Mar 1958

6:2 "Duke Cheers His Team But It Plays 2d Tiddle" <t>

9 May 1958

28:6 AP "Oxford - Cambridge Game is a Snap". Drawing with wrong depiction of spin <cg>

10 May 1958

25:7 AP "Oxford, Outsnapping Cambridge, Claims World Tiddlywinks Title" <cg>

11 May 1958

V:5:8 UPI "House of Commons Gets into Tiddlywinks Act" <t>

15 Jun 1958

V:4:6 UPI "Tiddlywinks Title Claimed" <tg>

? 1958

Possibly one on University of Pennsylvania team (may be Herald Tribune)

27 Feb 1959

31:6 UPI "Virile Oxford Wins Healthful Tiddlywinks" <tg>

4 Mar 1960

30:4 UPI "Woman Joins Oxford Team" <t>

17 Jun 1962

S3:8 "Tiddlywinks, Anyone?" (letter from Philip Moore of Oxford announcing tour) <t>

5 Aug 1962

23:1 "Britain Tops US in Tiddlywinks" <cg>

8 Aug 1962

38:6 "Tiddlywink Drive" part of "Advertising: Goodyear Drive Turns on Jazz" re Gossage for Rainier Ale <tg>

21 Oct 1962

83:3 "Harvard Squops, beats Columbia" <cg>

10 Jul 1966

21:2 UPI "Russians to Be Taught Fine Art of Tiddlywinks" <zt>

13 Jul 1966

UPI "Tiddlywink Team Off to Soviet" [not on microfilm] <g>

1 Feb 1969

34:2 "NASA Takes Cooper Out of Daytona Orbit" <x>

17 Apr 1970

UPI "Tiddlywinks Mark Claimed" [not on microfilm] <tg>

8 Apr 1973

S2 UPI "Low-Key MIT Makes Variety Spice of Sports" (in Feb 1973 MIT Observer) [not on microfilm] <c>

13 Dec 1978

B11:5 "Challenge Him to a Game!". Morsan's ad with photo of Lockwood

11 Feb 1979

S7:2 "What They Are Saying" crack by John Walker—mention <t>

25 Feb 1979

S2:1 "This Game Isn't Child's Play" letter by Dave Lockwood in reply to Walker. Old UPI photo from MIT marathon (1975) of Joe Sachs <zg>

7 Dec 1980

6:202:5 "Health; The Battle of Wounded Knees" <x>

18 Jan 1981

7:30:3 "Children's Books" <x>

1 Nov 1981

11:3:1 (Westchester section) "Westchester Journal" <x>

7 Feb 1982

1:22:3 "The Quiet, Powerless Twilight of 'The Largo Eight'" <x>

19 Mar 1984

C6:4 "Jim Brown's Best Sport" <x>

24 Jul 1984

A2:3 "Arab Isle: Window to a War, Toast of Saudis" <x>

22 Feb 1985

C26:1 TV Weekend. "Finnegan Begin Again" <x>

21 Mar 1985

C3:1 "How Games Grew in U.S. History" <x>

18 Feb 1986

D19:1 "Sports of the Times/Put a '?' on His Chest" <x>

(some New York paper)

__ ___ 1897

F.A.O. Schwarz ad ("Most popular game ever produced") on Schwarz office wall in New York City

Newsday

[S-Mag: Sunday Magazine]

11 Dec 1968

3A UPI "MIT to LI Girl? Pure Tiddlywinks"

? 1973 or 1974

Quote by USC or UCLA athletic director (wire service?)

14 Dec 1978

191 "Winking away a challenge by Bill Nack". Illustration. (see Hartford Courant)

27 Feb 1980

II:60 "tv tonight" (Real People TV)

8 Sep 1985

S-Mag article and insets by Leo Seligsohn. Coverage of June 1985 Singles. <o>
S-Mag-20 "The `Jabberwocky' of Sports". Photo <o>
S-Mag-21 "The Wink Language" (inset) <o>
S-Mag-22 (continued), "A Find Not to Be Winked At" (inset). Photo by Tucker <o>
S-Mag-60-61 (continued) <o>

17 Apr 1995

pp A08 "516" "It's Mortal Kombat Over Pogs" by Marilyn Goldstein ("It was devised by an Oahu elementary school teacher for her class, based on the Depression game tiddledywinks.") <e>

 

Imagine tiddledywinks as the eye of a storm.

 

The Record (Ocean City-Somers Point, NJ)

11 Dec 1986

1 "This Week..." mention <o>
5 "Tiddly Winks Champ In Town" <o>

9 Jul 1987

1 "Tiddlywinks by the sea in O.C." <o>

The Sandpaper (Ocean City NJ)

11 Dec 1986

6 in "Ocean City Celebrates the Season With Christmas Festivities" <o>

9 Jul 1987

10 in "Calendar"/"Events": "Tiddlywinks Contest" <o>

The Sentinel-Ledger (Ocean City NJ)

11 Dec 1986

1:13 mention in "Ruggieri to conduct Pops in annual children's concert Saturday" <o>
1:13 mention in "coming events" <o>

11 Dec 1986

2:12 "World champion tiddly winks player will be on hand Saturday" <o>

18 Dec 1986

1:8 mention in "Carolfest caps a full program of yuletide events in Ocean City". Photo of Tucker. <o>

10 Jul 1987

1:7 "Strategy for tiddlywinks" <o>
1:10 "Al Alberts, string band, tiddly winkers all here this weekend" <o>

Oklahoma Toastmaster (magazine?)

Apr-May 1972

4

Ottawa (IL) Daily-Times

10 May 1978

22 UPI re Lockwood

Parade

(Sunday supplement to Washington Post and other newspapers)

14 Apr 1996

12 "Ask Marilyn" question by "G. Vitale, Mobile, Ala." ("We plan to hold an elimination tournament with tiddlywinks, two people playing at a time.") <o>

Parkersburg (WV) News

7 or 14 May 1978

UPI "Skydiver Makes Jump To Tiddlywinks". Photo. Re Lockwood <c>

Daily Peabody (MA) Times

?May 1978

UPI re Lockwood

Philadelphia Bulletin

13 Feb 1971

8 "Top Tiddly Teams Tussle For Total Title at Toronto" <z>

15 or 16 Feb 1971

"Tiddlywinkers Win 4th Place at Toronto Tourney" <z>

16 Feb 1981

A1 Photo of winks
B1 "Squop that wink, or pot a disc". Photo of Lockwood, Ed Morse <c>
B2 "In the jargon of tiddlywink experts, it's as easy as flicking with a squidger"

Philadelphia Inquirer

28 Jan 1975

3A UPI photo of Sachs and Steidle, re marathon

(Phoenixville PA paper)

__ ___ ____

About the Solomons

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

27 Feb 1980

24 "Tonight in Preview" (Real People TV)

PR Newswire

6 Oct 1983

"Scholarship Research Helps Students Get Financial" <x>

19 Oct 1983

"National Scholarship Hotline Set to Begin" <x>

Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin

27 Feb 1980

D6 "Tonight on TV" (Real People TV)

Rockford (IL) Register Star

27 Dec 1980

1 "Serious winker is a champion, Page B1". Photo
B1 "Man takes tiddlywinks seriously". 2 photos

San Francisco Examiner

?May 1976

"Sports for Weekend" - "Football & Tiddlywinks". Re the First Far Eastern Tournament (FFET)

(Scranton PA paper)

Feb 1981

(expected article)

Springfield (MA) Union

5 Mar 1953

21:1 "Industry's Elder Statesman" (extended analogy) <t>

12 May 1958

2:8 AP "Parliament Has Tiddlers" <t>

27 Feb 1980

30 "Wednesday's TV Highlights" (Real People TV)

23 Jun 1991

[Sunday-Republican; Franklin Co. edition] Photo of Don Fox.

Syracuse (NY) Herald-American

__ Feb 1970

? "Cornell host to tiddlers" <z>
53 "Tiddledywinks crown at stake" <z>

This Week Magazine

(Sunday supplement to Washington Star, New York Herald Tribune, etc.)

4 Nov 1962

20-21 "Tiddlywinks across the sea!": Charlie Rice's Punchbowl column. 3 photos, drawing <tg>

United Press International wire

26 Oct 1981

Re tax-cut proposal <x>

30 Dec 1981

Re Cotton Bowl, Bear Bryant <x>

19 Feb 1982

"What Newspapers Are Saying" <x>

3 Mar 1982

"Senate defeats parimutuel wagering measure, 18-21". Re tiddlywinks as a sin <x>

17 Feb 1983

Similar to 18 Feb 1983 <x>

18 Feb 1983

"Boat where 31 men perished had hole in hull" <x>

26 Mar 1983

"USFL-Stars" <x>

5 Aug 1983

"Olympics? Senior year can wait" <x>

17 Nov 1983

"Sports bar provides scores, bleachers" <x>

11 Apr 1984

"Cager Makes Olympics; As Team Handballer" <x>

9 May 1984

"'Muscle Motion' moves teacher from job" <x>

13 May 1984

"Tiddlywinks: The Rodney Dangerfield of games" by Robert Doherty <x>

27 Jan 1985

"House of Lords newest British television star" <x>

USA Today

30 Dec 1988

A1 Re President Bush playing tiddlywinks.

Vermont Standard

4 Mar 1982

11 Mar 1982

1

18 Mar 1982

Photo of Lockwood and 2 kids at Bridgewater Mill Mall demonstration

Wall Street Journal

<12 Mar 1984

1, 23:1 "In U.K. Panel Shows Players Don't Squeal And Don't Win Cars" by Barry Newman" <x>

Waltham (MA) News-Tribune

__ Apr 1972

AP

Washington Daily News

18 Mar 1959

UPI "Aim at Tiddly-Winks Title" <tg>

Washington Post

12 May 1958

A1 "Tiddly-Winks Sweeping Britain; Commons, Oxford Busy Snapping" <cg>

11 Oct 1959

A11 UPI "Chicago, Cambridge in Tiddlywink Rift" <tg>

11 Sep 1977

F1 "Tender Is the Token, the Stamp and the Slug" <x>

15 Nov 1977

D4 "After a Long Wait on Telephone, `You're Next on Sportscall'" <x>

4 Jan 1979

D1 "Staubach's Image Only Half Accurate" <x>

4 Feb 1979

E6 [Book World] "Query on Tiddlywinks" by Rick Tucker and Fred Shapiro <o>

11 Aug 1979

B4 "'Sunburn': Not Too Hot" <x>

9 Jan 1980

B5 "FINDS". Photo of mushroom winks <o>

27 Feb 1980

B8 "The TV Column" (Real People TV) <o>

10 Mar 1980

C12 "Performing Arts"/"N.C. Dance Theatre" <x>

13 Mar 1980

D10 "McGovern's Primary Interest" <x>

12 Dec 1980

Weekend-33 "`Tiddlywinks,' the Game". Record review <x>

27 Mar 1981

C3 "Any Day"/"The Smitten Scientist and Lucy's Sensational Knee" (from C1) <x>

27 Aug 1981

B5 "PARENT'S ALMANAC: Let Crying Babies Lie"—mention <o>

26 Oct 1981

B5 "Quenching Burnout"—mention <o>

10 Feb 1982

D1 "Billy Olson; The Perfect Vault? Look Out for a 19 in the Big Apple; Olson Shattered a Wrist, Now Shatters Records" <x>

21 Feb 1982

M4 "Recruiting"/"How Colleges Play the Game Determines Whether They Win or Lose" <x>

19 Mar 1982

D2 "ESPN: The Channel That's Always There" <x>

29 May 1982

C1 "Polo! New Grounds for Women; There's No Absence of Mallets Here" <x>

24 Jul 1982

D1 "National Sports Fest Scores Indianapolis More Than a 500" <x>

7 Mar 1983

D1 "Federals Blitzed in Debut, 28-7, as 38,010 Look On" <x>

8 May 1983

H1 "From Africa to Disco; Black Dance Evolves and Explodes" <x>

7 Oct 1983

D1 "Special Teams Make a Splash for Redskins" <x>

11 Oct 1983

A1 "Half a Day Nets $1.50 And 'Supper'" <x>

18 Dec 1983

Mag-13 "Left's Passion" <x>

28 Jun 1984

Home-29 "ANTIQUES"/"Interior Decorating With Games and Puzzles" <o>

2 Jul 1984

C1 "A Game Not to Be Winked At"/"Keeping an Eye on The Tiddlywinks Tourney" by Michael Oricchio. Photo of Kahn and Sachs. <o>
C3 "Tiddly Tourney". Photo of Kahn <o>

16 Mar 1985

D1 "Wojcik's World of Wonder Leaves LSU Baffled" <x>

15 Dec 1986

B5 AP "Champs Flip Their Winks for Sport"/"Local Players Take In Tiddlywinks Tournament in New Jersey" <o>

13 Mar 1989

Weekend-49 "Carousel"/"LADDIO TIDDLIWINK" <o>

15 May 1989

A5 "North Prosecutor's Secretary Related to Jury Foreman". ("diddleywink") <o>

~14 Jun 1989

[Sports] mention

Washington Star

25 Mar 1959

A1 AP "Cantab Winkers Again Squidge World Title" <tg>

3 Jan 1979

A11 "The `voice' of H. L. Mencken", syndicated column by James J. Kilpatrick. Refers to previous column re "The contributions of Tiddly-Winks to American Speech" <o>

27 Feb 1980

C1 [TV Column] (Real People TV) <o>

Washington Star-News

28 Jan 1975

A3 AP "A Tiddledywinks Record". Photo of Sachs and Steidle <o>

Washington Times

1 Nov 1985

1C "Tiddlywinks, you say?" / "Silver Spring man is the best in U.S.". Color photo of Kahn <o>
6C "KNOTT" (continued) <o>

Wayne (NJ) Today

22 Aug 1979

16 NEA "Tiddlywinks not just kid stuff"/"Tougher than chess"

Whoot! (Atlantic and Cape May Counties NJ)

9 Jul 1987

27 "Ocean City Calendar" <o>

[various Cornell or Ithaca newspapers]

__ ___ ____

"Groups Exhibit at Straight" <z>

<= 2 Nov 1966

"Tiddlywinks"/"New Sport Being Formed at Cornell" <z>

~28 Feb 1966

UPI photo only. Caption "Oh, how collegiate ...". Re Princeton vs. Rutgers. (Maybe New York Times) <z>

Mar 1966

"Harvard Squidgers Outscore Red Team" <z>

16 May 1966?

"Tiddlywinks Squad Defeats MIT Team" <z>

~Feb 1967

"Winksmen Top Two" <z>

~28 Nov 1974

"Tiddlywinks Champion Is An IHS Math Teacher" <z>

9 Dec 1980

"Squop!"/"Tiddlywinkers Meet". Photos <z>

[Gannet Westchester newspapers]

~26 Dec 1980

Picked up story that appeared in Rockford Register Star

[some Long Island newspaper]

__ ___ ____

article about Mitch Wand in the late 1960s (may be Newsday 1968)

[some newspaper]

__ ___ 1972

AP wirephoto. "Tabletop Trauma at Tiddlywinks Tourney" after the 1972 Junior Continentals

 

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