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...year 1347 King Charles of Bohemia, while hunting through a rocky, gorge-like valley, discovered that in the streams of the district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often...
...Vera Menchik of Russia is a resident of England but listed as a Russian entrant. She was born in Czechoslovakia, raised in Moscow, has lived in Hastings for the last five years. She was a chess pupil of Geza Maroczy, brilliant Hungarian Master, who is also playing in the Carlsbad tournament. Miss Menchik has been acknowledged best woman player since 1927. She played in an English-Russian tournament in England this spring and finished in a tie for second place. Miss Menchik lost her first two games in the Carlsbad tournament. It is safe to say that whatever victories...
...Said he: "For 40 years I've worked from 5 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock at night. I've never had a real vacation. Now I'm going to play. I want to go to Palm Beach, to Europe, to Carlsbad, Vienna, Paris and Switzerland. I am going to retire, quit. I am tired. Money is not everything. . . . Frankfurters, coffee, lemonade, savings accounts, seven days a week, little sleep, bustle, shouts, profits, frankfurters, soft shell crabs-these are my memories...
...Carlsbad (in Czecho-Slovakia). The World Zionist Conference (the 13th) closed. Vigorous back-to-Palestine agitation was voted. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, after an 8 p. m.5 a. m. session, ousted the present director of activities and seated a new Executive Committee. Several New York; Zionists are now members of the Actions Committee. Having announced the collection of $4,300,000, of which $2,750,000 came from the U. S., the delegates departed from Carlsbad's wooded hills and scattered about the globe...
Professor Cilley of Exeter Academy has gone to Carlsbad, Germany for his health and probably will not be back until next spring...