When Margaret Petherbridge Farrar died in 1984 she was working on her 134th crossword puzzle book. It launched the duo on their careers as book publishers and, overnight, it turned the crossword puzzle into a coast-to-coast sensation. The Cross Word Puzzle Book was a massive best seller. They asked Margaret Petherbridge to edit it for them. Looking for their first book, they gambled on a collection of puzzles that had appeared in the New York World. In 1924 two recent graduates of New York's Columbia School of Journalism decided that they would rather go for publishing than for journalism. Then she started setting the odd puzzle herself and seems quickly to have become better at it than he was and to have taken over. Born in 1897, she was secretary to the editor of the New York World when she was asked to help Arthur Wynne with his proofreading. She was just, accidentally, the right person in the right place.
Margaret Petherbridge originally had no particular interest in puzzles, crossword or other.
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