SCRABBLE INVENTOR ALFRED BUTTS DIES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 7, 1993                   TAG: 9304070262
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RHINEBECK, N.Y.                                LENGTH: Short
SCRABBLE INVENTOR ALFRED BUTTS DIES
Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who invented the enduring board game Scrabble, died Sunday at a hospital. He was 93.
Butts died of natural causes, said Chris Chestney, owner of Dapson-Chestney Funeral Home.
Butts received patents for several architectural structural systems he designed and was an accomplished artist and photographer.
He worked for the New York firm Holden, McLaughlin and Associates after receiving a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1924.
During the Depression, when there was little architectural work to be had, he invented Scrabble. The still-popular game tests competitors' word skills as they use blocks of letters to form words across a board.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB