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Lessons of Life. Ernie Bevin is that kind of a man-impatient with the chessboard's strategic subtleties. Life had used him roughly from the first, had given him callouses where other men would have had scars. Born 65 years ago to bitter poverty in Winsford, a Somerset village, Ernie Bevin got an early introduction to strife and independence...
Died. Frank Marshall, 67, U.S. chess champion from 1909 to 1936 (he tried only once for the world's championship); of a heart attack; in Jersey City. Tightlipped, cigar-chewing Marshall played at least one game a day for 57 years, took a chessboard to bed to accommodate nighttime inspiration...
...experimental broadcasts over Manhattan Radio Station WQXR have been bringing in highly enthusiastic comments from educators and listeners alike. For example. Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard wrote: "I have been learning a lot of history from this broadcast. It's the setting up of the wide chessboard that's so fascinating. Many thanks for the fun, and a new look at things." And Winifred Fisher, Executive Director of the New York Adult Education Council, passed on a comment Dean Langmuir, investment counselor and brother of the electrical Irving, recently made to her. " 'The World and America...
What Price Audacity? The Cherkassy bridgehead was one of the Ukrainian chessboard squares on which the two armies played their complex game of blood and wits. It was a game of thrusts, traps, flanking attacks. It was a game in which the player with more patience and stamina, greater reserves, better supply lines stood the better chance...
...deadly game began early this summer. Anticipating Hitler's great offensive, the Red Army massed its men and guns in the Kursk-Belgorod sector. The Wehrmacht massed its strength south of Sevsk, near the center of the 300-mile-long chessboard...