Word: chessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader in Norfolk, Va. asked if we could put him in touch with a subscriber in a country which grows teakwood. He wanted his favorite set of chessmen duplicated in teakwood, and he was willing to pay the cost of the project in TIME subscriptions. We gave him the name of a college student in India who had written us that he wanted very much to subscribe to TIME but couldn't afford it. Later on we hope to hear that they made a deal...
...Alekhine, a captain in the Czar's army and later a Nazi sympathizer, was so hated by Soviet chessmen that, although they still make grudging use of his "Alekhine Defense," they call it the "Moscow Defense...
...year's circus has wonderfully gaudy costumes, good-looking girls, emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither and galumph...
...United States Chess Federation, which began last Saturday at the Boston City Club with a field of 18, will hold two rounds of matches at Harvard on Friday evening. One week later Mrs. Gisela K. Gresser, Radcliffe '27, is scheduled to play simultaneous games with as many aspiring Harvard chessmen as care to compete...
These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most...