Weng liked to reveal his goofs from time to time so that those who followed his word would feel that he was only incomparable, not perfect. In reality, friends said, he loved the job because it enabled him to engage the reader personally, a pleasure normally enjoyed by writers rather than the people who edit what writers write.Īs a result of his good fortune and his feelings of imperviousness to reproaches from above, Mr. ![]() ![]() And so he was relieved of the rebukes that would normally flow from higher-up editors to lower-down editors in the normal review of the paper's content. Weng, who was previously a copy editor and served as chief of the metropolitan news copy desk before moving to puzzles, liked to say that one of the reasons he liked editing the word game so much was that he knew that in his era, nobody in top management of the newspaper did crossword puzzles. He held the job until 1978, when he was succeeded by Eugene T. Weng became The Times's second crossword editor in 1968, when he succeeded Margaret Farrar. He had been suffering from throat cancer and was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday complaining of shortness of breath, said his sister, Damaras Rogers. He was 86 years old and lived in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan. Will Weng, who for 10 years challenged, confounded, befuddled and thus became beloved by thousands of readers as editor of The New York Times crossword puzzles, died yesterday at St.
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