Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: "Bloody executioner, trusted slave" (Marshal Sokolovsky). "He is a babbling Belgrade parrot ... a bad actor. Imitating that hypocrite and poseur Churchill, Tito wanted to be a hunter, writer and chess player, but like Churchill he is a bad shot, a still worse writer, and at chess he is beaten even by the lowbrow Pijade . . . Greedy and insatiable as Goering." (Literary Gazette...
...much editorialization, particularly in the articles about undergraduate organizations. And words such as ensconced, collegian, frosh, and soph, should never, ever, see print. A few articles, however, showed a real attempt to get away from the rigid confines imposed by the nature of a yearbook. Those on the chess and bridge clubs and (but for one inexcusable line) the Band are quite good. One interesting innovation in this year's book is the inclusion of outstanding pieces from other publications. It might well become a regular feature...
...three centuries, the little Bierstube known as Bauern-Lola still echoes to the drinking songs of the burghers of Kronach (pop. 10,000), in Bavaria. Except on Wednesday nights. Then the town's 70-year-old chess club takes over, and antlered deer heads brood silently from the walls. In recent years. Kronach's players got tired of each other's familiar tactics. West and away, across the Atlantic, they decided, there must be the kind of competition that would put the old spirit back into Kronach's club...
...playing secretary, kept up a monumental correspondence with Alfred Joanni manager of a Kronach porcelain factory and the only man in the Kronach club who spoke English. For four years, the international airmail match ground on. Although each letter was vitally concerned with the progress of 42 chess games Joanni and Cramer managed to mix in some gossip, too. "We got to know the families and troubles of partners across the ocean." says Joanni. ''Pictures were exchanged. When one of the Americans died we let the Peorians score the game for him in reverence to the deceased...
...with Kronach ahead 23-18, Peoria's W. E. McCraw, last American left in the match, was faced with a passed pawn and a hopelessly cramped position. Reluctantly, he resigned. This month, as a token of friendship, Kronach's citizens will present a porcelain trophy of two chess players to the officer in charge of U.S. forces stationed there...