Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
Died. Robert Frederick Foster, 92, Scottish-born ultimate authority on parlor Cames (Foster's Hoyle), who specialized in bridge, also knew all about poker, chess, cinch, dice, hearts, whist, skat, Russian bank (his favorite), dominoes; in Eastham, Mass...
Harvard's chess team demonstrated its supremacy in the Ivy League by defeating Yale 31/2 to 1/2 and Princeton 3 to 1 in matches at the Marshall Chess Club, New York City, December 23 and 24. Representing the Crimson were H. H. Nattens '47, J. J. Leavitt '49, P. T. Rado '49, and W. B. Ryan...
...clear case of brains over brawn in Lowell this year. While the Bellboy grid giants are playing doormat to the intramural loop, the Lowell chess team captured the inter-House championship. The other Houses could not come close to checking the Bellboy wizards of Caissa; until Monday night Kirkland A had matched the champions point for point, but they failed to win a single game when the chips were down...
...Friday the Harvard A team lost to the Boston Chess Club 2 to 3, to open their competition in the local Metropolitan League. But the Crimson latter-day Morphys will try to bounce back tonight at the expense of the Lynn and Wells clubs, which the A and B teams meet respectively in the Lowell Dining Hall at 8 o'clock...