Word: chessman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unquestionably laugh at Bruce, much of the time he merely shouts angrily and tastelessly at the way of the world (on religious leaders: "They have missed the boat. 'Thou shall no kill.' they say, and then one of them walks comfortingly to the death chamber with Caryl Chessman.''). Some of the material springs from his own checkered life (the son of divorced parents, he ran away from home at twelve). His political routines recall Of Thee I Sing with some venom added, as when Ike says to Sherman Adams: "All right, Sherm, you can level with...
...Wilt Chamberlain and his University of Kansas playmates took a stunning 39-37 beating from Iowa State, Kansas Basketball Coach Dick Harp went into seclusion with a set of chessmen to work out the right moves for the return match. When the Iowa Cyclones came back to Kansas, Chessman Chamberlain slipped out from his post position under the basket, pulled three Iowa defensemen to the foul line with him, gave his teammates room to drive in for scores. While "Wilt the Stilt" settled for only four field goals, Kansas won 75-64, all but took possession of the Big Seven...
Backfire. In Pasadena, Calif., Scout Leader Kenneth Chessman admitted to police that he had set fire to Boy Scout headquarters only because he felt that his work was not appreciated by the community...
...gave up such experiments as his stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase in favor of chess, has scarcely touched a brush to canvas since. Last week, along with witty reminders of his bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position...