Word: blindfolds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blindfold and alone...
...world's blindfold chess champion is 39-year-old, Belgian-born Georges Koltan-owski, a Manhattan diamond cutter. Last week in an exhibition match at the Manhattan Chess Club Koltanowski played six unblindfolded club members simultaneously, won four games, drew...
Georges Koltanowski has been recognized as the world's blindfold champion since 1934 when he played 34 opponents at a time without losing a game. The match lasted 13½ hours with time out only for meals. A feat he considers even more difficult was a series of exhibitions he undertook in Switzerland seven years ago. He played ten-game matches in 26 different cities on 26 consecutive days. In each contest he won more than a majority of the games...
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings...
...elements. A large and responsive group of readers can easily be found. Unfortunately, the "unity" of the American people, a fourth of-July catchword which means exactly nothing can be sorely disarranged by the sort of subversive literature which the F. B. I. still allows to circulate. We can blindfold our eyes and follow the example of France, which was eaten away from the inside by termites unbeknownst to everyone until the German juggernaut pushed her over like alehouse of cards. Or else we can wake up to the fact that allowing these publications to continue is a mockery...