Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvador Dali was last week living in the swank Del Monte Hotel in Del Monte, Calif. He said he had breakfast at 7:30, lunch at 12:45, dinner at 8, played chess with Mrs. Dali after dinner. Most of the time he spent in his hotel room...
Built at a cost of only $2,342,000, the Hall will charge $4 a week per man for double rooms, $5.50 for singles, complete medical service, supervised recreation 24 hours a day (for all shifts), body-building classes, chess, checkers, ping-pong, horseshoe pitching, shuffleboard, movies in the gymnasium, use of the library and music room. The community center could get no materials for bowling alleys or pool tables...
...very sweet by this name or any other. He acts more like a beachcomber than an artist and the only glimpse you get of his masterpieces supports this conclusion. He is fascinatingly immoral and bitter, but without reason, and, from what the film shows, his painting is secondary to chess, absinthe, and seduction...
...jurist Coleman, is invited and expected. Uninvited, unexpected, but never quite unwelcome, escaped prisoner Cary Grant is the other. Boarding a lawyer with a criminal (Grant is an accused killer) complicates life, of course, but landlady Arthur improvises neatly. So "gardener" Grant and lawyer Coleman have long talks, play chess, and become close friends...
...tourney achieved its goal of ferreting out chess talent and stirring up interest in one of the world's oldest games. In addition three men succeeded in defeating the highly regarded and somewhat out-numbered opponent...