Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cells may soon feel the motherly touch of Britain's welfare state. Harley Cronin, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, recently wrote as follows to the Prison Commission: "After a long spell of waiting, both the prisoner and the staff get thoroughly tired of playing cards, chess, etc., and the provision of wireless would be a boon . . . With careful selection suitable programs could be tuned into." At week's end the Home Office, which supervises British prisons, still had the request under consideration...
...Pepsi-Cola Co. Raymond I. Smith, manager of Reno's No. I gambling house, Harold's Club, chipped in for side expenses. Bonifacio went to the University of Nevada in Reno, prepared for law school by majoring in political science, became a good dancer, a fine chess player, the star of the university debating team, and a popular man-about-campus...
...news-starved Russian people took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...
...there are exhibits from the Museum's collection of German medieval and renaissance painting and sculpture. In the last two years, the Museum has developed a flair for the modern, supplementing its Gothic saints and saviours with shocking heresies like the recent exhibit from the Bauhans, which includes abstractionist chess sets and stained glass made of beer bottle bottoms. Visitors are a little surprised by the new trend, but on the whole they seem to like it. The only ones who are disappointed are the two or three a day who wander in and ask to see the glass flowers...
...miles, from the gates of Alexandria into Tunisia. In his writing, as in battle, Monty has neither Eisenhower's scope nor Patton's dash and saltiness. Readers who want the smell and smoke of battle will not get it here. But El Alamein should appeal to chess players. Every move of every battle is explained with the logic, the patience and the bland assurance of an instructor demonstrating a foolproof system. Writes Monty: "I have always planned on the assumption of success...