Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Travel expenses of $2500 are needed if Shelby Lyman '59 and three other American college chess players are going to enter the third World Student Chess Championships at Upsala, Sweden, next month...
Lyman, however, on contacting the Dept. of Athletics, was told that no funds were available for chess. The only contribution from Harvard so far is a small donation for the Chess Club...
...sneeringly dubbed him "Fearless Frank,'' and even Loyalist Louis Seltzer editorially blasted him for compromising on a truck tax bill.) He runs the state with just two aides, and spends hours arguing with himself over difficult decisions (in such moments he frequently plays the violin). Like a chess player, he is always thinking three moves ahead, weighing the political consequences...
...freshman chess players, Selby Lyman and Arthur Freeman, played the parts of giant-killers at the biennial intercollegiate chess championship tournament at Columbia last December (26-30). Lyman, who finished seventh out of 26 entrants, defeated Andy Mednis of NYU, the eventual winner of the tournament, and Freeman in turn defeated Lyman to end in eighth place...
Both Lyman and Freeman belong to the chess club and have been playing the game for over ten years. Malcolm Wiener '57, president of the chess club said, "On the basis of Lyman and Freeman's showing in this tournament, we will enter next year's team intercollegiate championships." (The intercollegiates in chess alternate from an individual tournament one year to a team championship the next...