Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shrewd little King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan likes to shoot and hunt, compose delicate Arabic poetry, recite from the Koran, and play chess. He also aspires to enlarge his kingdom. Last week, fingering a set of exquisitely carved chess pieces in his winter palace at Shouneh, a few miles east of the River Jordan, he told a TIME correspondent: "Politics is like chess: you cannot rush your pawns across enemy territory, but must seek favorable openings...
Inexcusably boasting no beards, the chess team still wins. How they manage without beards is a mystery, and yet they do manage...
Tradition shrieks at this slight on beards. By heards, are pondering heads kept in that proper balance and angle for peering at the checkered battlefield. They filter the impulsive tang from fresh air, admitting only the essence of mouldering decay so much a part of chess atmosphere...
Unawed. A sour man with a lurid private vocabulary, Charley never seemed to work. He often needed a shave, spent much time in the Press Club playing chess and dominoes with his newspaper cronies. He held no man in awe. Once Franklin Roosevelt greeted reporters with the remark that there was no news "except that Charley Michelson needs a haircut." Snapped Michelson: "Somebody's got to economize around here." Once he told Jim Farley: "Jim, you're the most honest man alive. You wouldn't steal anything-except an election...
Dogged. In Kelso, Wash., Mrs. R. K. Chess advertised, her two dogs for sale, gave her phone number, got no calls at all, finally discovered that the dogs had chewed away the phone connection...