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...novel combines a Daschiell Hammett-like style of describing criminal relationships, and Raymond Chandler's brand of hard-edged realism. The plot unfolds in layer after layer of bluntly detailed incidents. Each incident is as carefully regulated as a move in a chess game, for check and mate means pay-off, jail, or death...
...stayed in Chicago until 1959, writing, performing, and producing records for Chess Record Company. He produced records for such performers as Robert Nighthawk, Otis Rush, and Jimmy Weatherspoon...
...wall to wall carpeting, mansion sized bedrooms and an invisible crew. Like Sleuth's manor, the yacht is stocked with games. On seeing the living room for the first time, Dyan Cannon remarks, "Who designed this place -- Parker Brothers?" Ross dots the boat with dartboards and three dimensional chess sets, but Sleuth much better exploited the idea of the games player. Sheila's boat is a sorry second...
Sign up today for Chess Tournament in the Student Activities Office. First round of the Bridge Tournament at 7:30 p.m. in the Lehman Hall Dining Room...
...spent the last quarter-century of his life in bittersweet retirement, first with his Russian-born wife Raissa in Yonkers, N.Y., and, after her death, with one of his three sons (all are professors of mathematics) in Princeton, N.J. Between puffs on his corncob pipe and games of chess, he had plenty of time to field queries from inquiring historians. Asked in 1971 whether he identified with contemporary antiwar, anti-Establishment demonstrators, Browder...