Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it ended. Mikhail Botvinnik, 32, had retained the title which he won in 1941 when the Soviet national chess championship was last staged...
Second Front talk was everywhere: on the jampacked weekend trains off to suburban camps and rest homes; at the all-Soviet Union boxing championships and the even more popular grand chess tournament; in the lobbies of the movies, where the new Soviet Sky of Moscow told the story of the battle for the capital in 1941. and the old U.S. Jungle Book and Thief of Bagdad pictured the adventures of Sabu. At the U.S. Army Air Forces' new bomber bases in western Russia (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), G.I. Joe chummed up with G.I. Ivan. U.S. Businessman Eric Johnston continued...
When captured by the Germans, each American is given a kit containing a combination diary and photograph album, notebooks, pocket Testament, athletic equipment, pencils, checkers or chess, a mouth organ, etc. He also gets a German-English dictionary, a book of light reading, and a letter explaining educational courses he can take through the Y. The Y sponsors trade schools for prisoners (instructors are captured Americans), supplies the textbooks...
Theosophist's End Firecrackers popped, sirens screamed in El Salvador last week as hated Theosophist-Dictator. Maximiliano Hernández Martinez resigned the Presidency, fled to Guatemala. Said Martinez (who has slain his thousands): "The curtain has fallen. I have played my last chess game. I shall devote my life to agriculture and spiritual activity in Theosophy...
...page size is the same as that of standard U.S. papers. Each costs 20 kopecks (a subway ride costs 40, a trolley ride 15). There are no comic strips, no columnists, no crime or scandal, few pictures, only a stick or so of sports news about such things as chess championships. Readers do not miss them. The newly literate Russian masses have so vast an appetite for the written word that they are fascinated by news reports which U.S. readers would find dust-dry. The most that the reader gets in the way of entertainment is an occasional sardonic cartoon...