Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisconsin campaign, Candidate Harold Stassen gave a little dinner party at La Crosse for the newsmen who had accompanied his final drive. Then he drove back across the Minnesota line to his home in St. Paul. Next morning he slept late, napped in the afternoon, played a game of chess with his son Glen. After a quiet family supper he flipped on the radio, started listening to broadcast returns and the excited telephone calls from his Wisconsin managers. By 10 o'clock that night Harold Stassen knew...
Rotaining D. Broward Craig '50 as president and Peter T. Rado '49 as secretary-treasurer, and electing Frank David '49 vice-president, the Chess Club has copped the intercollegiate championship and a substantial lead in current Hub competition during its season to date...
Strategy in the chess game of power politics has been offered as a reason. But if the move was designed to keep the Russians out of the Middle East it was poorly conceived...
...small but ever-expanding group of Dunster residents has been stirring up the morass of inactivity that has characterized the House system in recent years. Terming itself an "Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee," the Dunster organization is providing a basis for House clubs devoted to anything from rhumba to chess. The Committee acts as a headquarters for men who have these special interests, and engages others to act as informal instructors...
Esprit de House received a boost from the Dunster House Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee last week in the form of free courses in the liberal arts of rhumba, chess, bridge, and squash...