Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thriving magazine-subscription service, wrote a column for the student paper Dynamo, and served as its poetry editor. He played a good game of chess, became his fraternity's chaplain, was a member of the Student Christian Association and the social-science honorary society, Pi Gamma Mu. Meanwhile, he majored in history and literature ("The record of humanity is in both"), and in his spare time turned out two volumes of poetry. But what amazed his professors most was his academic record...
...Even in experimental work, it is the primacy of an imaginative idea or intuition that starts it all off ... The important thing in experimenting is to ask nature the right question and in its most direct form ... It is as if knowledge were playing a game of chess with the mind, and one has to be constantly on the alert with fresh tactics or even a changed strategy...
...gold standard and international trade. By fall he had settled down to a long career in the Treasury-and an interesting career it was. He was not a great economist. His specialty was international payments, which does not require much theoretical ability but does pose intricate problems, as chess does. In the 1930s, White wrote some rather original memoranda on the modified gold standard, but he published only one book in his life: his Harvard thesis. His consuming interest was not in economics for its own sake but as a path to political power. He once told a friend that...
...Horton Foote's new play, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish (see THEATER). Last March millions of televiewers saw an hour-long version of the same play, with all but two of the same cast, on the Goodyear-Philco TV Playhouse. Robert Howard Lindsay's The Chess Game, seen in February on the Kraft TV Theater, is scheduled for a Broadway opening later this season...
...acknowledgment of Reshevsky's skill: "He is the greatest player of the West-a tough little man full of brilliant ideas." Then Smyslov went back to Moscow, back into training for Champion Botvinnik, who no longer has to worry about radio blare and cigar smoke. In Russia, during chess matches, smoke and talk are forbidden...