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puzzle:
Sports
Weather News
ABC
World News
Backstage
Virginia
Maryland
Capitol Report
Nine newscasters — Ron Cochran, Len Deibert, Keith McBee, Ed Meyer, Joseph McCaffrey, Louis Allen, Felix Grant, Johnny Batchelder, and Steve Gilmartin — cover ABC World News, Virginia, D.C., Sports, Maryland, Business, Backstage, Weather News and Capitol Report on WMAL-TV's hour-long daily news roundup. Puzzle: Match newscaster to news subject from the following fictitious personal information*
Allen and Batchelder beat the Md. newsman at golf. The Va. newsman lives in the same part of town as McBee and Allen. McCaffrey, the backstage reporter, the D.C. newscaster and the world news reporter play bridge together. Gilmartin, Grant, Batchelder, the world news reporter and the D.C. newsman are bachelors; the others are married. The Va. newsman is a brother of the Md. newsman's wife. The sports newsman got passes to a football game for Mr. and Mrs. McBee, and for Batchelder, Deibert, and the weatherman. Meyer and the weatherman are soccer fans; Deibert and the world newsman like tennis. The sports reporter is engaged to Grant's sister. Meyer, his wife, Batchelder and the backstage reporter like Bossa Nova. The weatherman has three daughters, the Va. newscaster has two sons, and McCaffrey has a boy and a girl. The Capitol reporter's wife gave a party for Mrs. Allen. McCaffrey is taller than the backstage, sports and business newscasters, but McBee, Deibert, Cochran and Allen are taller than he is. The Md. newsman fishes with McCaffrey and Meyer.
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