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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank James Marshall, U. S. champion, is a large man with a red face and a hooked nose. He plays a dashing, "romantic" game; seldom draws but often loses. Marshall's style is fascinating to the onlooker, but usually does not finish him high up among first class players. He invented what is known as the Cambridge Springs variation in the Queen's Gambit. Marshall is also a bridge expert with a fondness for No Trump bids...
...chess pupil of Geza Maroczy, brilliant Hungarian Master, who is also playing in the Carlsbad tournament. Miss Menchik has been acknowledged best woman player since 1927. She played in an English-Russian tournament in England this spring and finished in a tie for second place. Miss Menchik lost her first two games in the Carlsbad tournament. It is safe to say that whatever victories she wins will be well earned, as chess professionals are notable for their complete lack of anything approaching an amateur sporting spirit and are not likely to let chivalry interfere with...
...interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
Engaged. Miss Helena Lodge, granddaughter of late U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and sister of Journalist Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; to Edouard de Streel, first secretary of the Belgian Embassy in Washington...
Alcohol's first effect is euphoria, a sense of wellbeing. Mental inhibitions are released. The drinker is gay. Later comes depression, the narcotic effect of alcohol. However, alcohol is not the only stimulant which acts that way. Strong tea and coffee act the same. So too, tobacco, chloroform, ether...