I'm Not Expecting You To Know Who Owns The Zebra

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Sixty-nine years ago,

what has become

a world-famous

logic puzzle

was published.

Life International

was housed

in Rockefeller Center

and the riddle

was a big topic

of discussion

in the

Sacred Cellar.

That is,

the watering hole

of the restaurant

adjacent to

the world-famous

skating rink

The watering administrator—

otherwise known as

the head bartender—

GUARANTEED

the imbibers

he would have the solution

the next day.

 

His audience included

Time-Life journalists,

photographers and executives.

 

There were

NBC producers and TV personalities,

Shell Oil executives

and other A-list personages.

 

Collectively,

they were non-plussed

by this 

multi-ethnic,

multi-cryptic

multi-information

mystery. 

They bet the bartender

that it

COULD NOT

be done.

 

The bartender's name

was Sam

 and this story

 is continued

here

 

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