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I Gannett Westchester NewspapersSunday, July 28. 1985 Section i Exhibit features PepsiCo Sculpture Gardens INVENTOR, From page El sales continued to be sluggish and Brunot lost money on the project- during the first two yean. Suddenly, in 1948, Brunot found that he had a bonanza on his hands and couldnt produce enough Scrabble games to keep up with the demand. In 1953, Brunot and Butts sold all rights to the game to Selchow Righter Co. of Bay Shore, the toy manufacturer that today still produces Scrabble in the United States.

Butts wife Nina died six yean ago. They had been married for 54 years, and had no children. His partner, Brunot, died two yean to fill time since. Butts has invented a new game. Alfreds Other Game" is arriving in department and toy stores this summer.

Like its predecessor, it is a word game, with. 144 two-toned letter tiles and four boards. Unlike most board games, it can be played by one person, or by groups of people. Butts is optimistic about the new games chances for sue- I felt sure I had a good game when I invented Scrabble," he said. But I never realized it would be as successful as it is today.

I think the new one is also going to be a good one. How much did Scrabble earn for Butts? He isnt saying. Im not doing badly," he said. But Ill tell you this. The government took about a third, I invested a third and I gave away or spent a third." Butts also has donated money to build a library and a health center in Dutchess.

Even though Butts has a new game on the market, he has not forgotten the old one. He will be on hand for the next four days in Boston, where the $50,000 North American Scrabble Open is being held. He will mingle with the 304 contestants, offer encouragement and submit to interviews with newspaper and television reporters. But will he play? Oh no, said Butts, like an uneasy spectator asked to play third base. Im not good enough.

Art in A Garden, an admission-free exhibit of photographs of the PepsiCo Sculpture Gardens in Purchase, will be on display-from Tuesday, Aug. 6, through Saturday, Aug. 17, at Nikon House, 620 Fifth Rockefellerr Center, New York City. Staff photographer for the New York Botanical Garden and director of the Center for Nature Photography, Allen Rokach of Yonkers was assigned to document the Sculpture Gardens by Donald Kendall, chief executive office of PepsiCo. The exhibit comprises 70 35 mm dye-transfer and Cibachrome prints in the course of a year.

Rokach viewed the sculptures by artists such as Alexander Cald-er, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Claes Oldenburg and Louise Nevelson not as fixed forms, but rather as living things, with distinct temperaments and moods. He photographed the works in different seasons and from various directions, taking advantage of the Photograph by Allen Rokach of Yonkers of a sculpture titled Henry Moore: Double Oval. qualities of light and color which Modern Photography and Natural to Elie Wiesel and I. B. Singer, accompany variations in weather.

History and are in private and aj House are Rokachs photographs have ap- corporate collections ranging from from 10 am to 5:45 p.m., Tuesday peared in publications such as Geo, the Jewish and Brooklyn museums through Saturday. QUEENf TV UPDATE page El the first lady looks to the future MONDAY 410 ScMby Dm Monday through Friday. 7:15 SC DC Tomb Classic Finals Ploaso note: SportsChannal will not bo airing the Mots game. (D Baseball Montreal vs. Mots.

SATURDAY IfcJtO Barney Miller Gannett Westchester Rockland Newspapers. tions firm representing the North American Scrabble Association, fewer than 20 people are ranked higher than 2,000. About 1 percent of the players are ranked higher than 1,952, she said, and the average player is ranked at about 1,500. Ids. Buccino is a frequent participant in tournaments sponsored by the Westchester Scrabble Club, which meets in Mamaroneck, and plays in club tournaments in Yorkers and the Bronx.

She also plans to join a club in Harlem; Its a challenge and I love words, she said. And I meet all kinds of people from all walks of life at the tournaments." I'm ranked in the middle on the computer. If I won in Boston, I would.be shocked. How did she become so good at the game? Practice, practice, practice. Most of us play as much as.

possible, she said. I also study words and dictionaries and lists a lot. Most good Scrabble playen know the odds, on how many times a word will turn up, said Ms. Buccino. Players are also helped by an official Scrabble dictionary and newsletter.

Despite her modesty, Ms. Buccino is ranked 1,736, above average on the North American Scrabble Association computer lists. The competition will be fierce, though. Joel Wapnick, a McGill University music professor from Montreal, won the associations last tournament title two years ago in Chicago. Wapnick, who is in Boston, to defend his title, is ranked 2,046.

According to Cherri Beberman of Pezanno the public-rela- manager of the new Pacific Palisades office of Cold-well Banker, said Thursday. Coldwell Banker's Brentwood office handled the 1982 sale of the five-bedroom Pacific Palisades home that the Reagans sold for more than 81 million. Since then, on trips to California, the Reagans have stayed at their 666-acre ranch near Santa Barbara or at' a Los Angeles hotel. The Reagans' other house was a contemporary ranch-style in the Riviera section of Pacific Palisades overlooking the Pacific. Despite security needs, this time the Reagans are telling friends they won't require as large a house.

Whatever the size, the price wont be modest. Abbott said there is a two-bedroom, one-bath home that needs a little work" selling for 8225,000. At the other end of the scale are homes starting around 8800,000 and going up into the multimillion-dollar range. The Reagans will spend three weeks in California, starting Aug. 11.

Most of that time they will be at their ranch, but around Aug. 20 they will go to Los Angeles for four days to see their children. By Donate Rodcliffo The Washington Post WASHINGTON Like couples everywhere who see retirement on the horizon, Nancy Reagan is letting it be known that she is thinking about where she and President Reagan will live when he leaves office 3 years from now. The first lady talked about her house-hunting plans to Elizabeth Taylor Tuesday night at state dinner for Chinese President Li Xiannian. Friends say the Reagans want to return to California when the presidents term is ended and that they are especially fond of the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, where they race lived.

Im not aware that she is actively looking for a house, but I'm sure it's a concern, Mary Jane Wick, Mrs. Reapn's longtime friend, said Thursday of a United Press International report by Helen Thomas that the first lady is quietly passing the word among friends. Its not a preoccupation at the moment," UPI quoted one Reagan friend. The news met predictably favorable reaction in Pacific Palisades. "I've got just the house for them, Joyce Abbott, orqwjen advice does she have for hoping to become a king of Scrabble? For home delivery call toll free Play as much as you can and study, study, study, she said.

Then go for broke, and risk all your Qintar on winning. 1 Harcourt Tynes 1-800-942-1010. GAMES From pago El their answers. Debates are settled by a vote of the rest of the participants. The Charade Game.

This old pantomime parlor game now comes in board-game form. Combining speed and acting. Charades pits teams against one another and a timer. Players roll dice and move pieces around a board marked with colors representing one of four categories: movies; television shows and characters; books, plays and phrases; and songs. Players get points for guessing a charade in an alloted amount of time.

Charades is on the shelves in local toy and department stores, and can be purchased for about 816 at Child World in Greenburgh. Stage Two. Reportedly one of this year's best-selling board games. Stage Two is exactly what its name implies. Players not only guessithe answers to trivia questions, but get extra points for guessing the category into which the question falls.

The fewer guesses needed to get the category, the more points player wins. Stage Two is available at most toy and department stores, and sells for about 831 at Toy World at the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers. Dr. Ruths Game of Good Sex. Sex counselor Dr.

Ruth Westheim-er will turn her favorite subject into a parlor game, due out in stores in September. The game will require players to answer questions about sex while they move playing pieces around a board on one of four arousal tracks. The first couple to reach the final track wins. The game is expected to sell for 824.95. Video board games.

Parker Brothers, in an attempt to cash in on the dual success of videocassettes and board games, has combined them in twf games now on the market. Rich Little's VCR Cha-. rades Game includes a two-hour videotape of the impressionist acting out various charades and challenging players to guess them. A small playing board and. timer are included, and the game sells for about 840..

The VCR Mysteiy Game-Clue provides players with a-videotape of 18 different mysteries to be solved. Each scenario gives clues, combined with written tips on playing cards. Players must discover victims and wcjmsis, pinpoint murder locations and name the perpetrators. Clue will be -available wiiluti the next year, at about 840. Savel0-50.

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