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Unlike Expert Millard F. Hopper's recent bestseller, How to Play Winning Checkers (6,000 copies sold to date), Willie Ryan's book is no primer. It is for the checkerists, new and veteran, who have pored over Dama literature dating back beyond Spain's Torquemada (1547). For the checkerist who can spot a three-for-two shot, Ryan's maze of checker lore is shimmering with clear-cut tactics based on the operations of the best generals in the game...
...simple theme, many a dub of long standing has plucked up interest. Checker sales are ballooning. And the crusty, generally introverted old men of checkers who have long pored over the game that few understood, now have company and competition in the new recruits who talk familiarly of Millard Hopper and bumptious Willie Ryan...
World news takes the spotlight from college, affairs, with a brand-new teletype machine to bring it in, the editors point out. Comics included are Abbican' Slate and Han Hopper. Crossword puzzles are promised...
...Chicago by Harry Hansen; The St. Lawrence by Henry Beston; The Lower Mississippi by Hodding Carter ; The Allegheny by Frederick Way Jr. ; The Sangamon by Edgar Lee Masters; The Kentucky by T. D. Clark; The Wisconsin by August Derleth) were found by Judges Carl Carmer, Amy Loveman, Franklin Hopper, Lewis Gannett, Nicholas Wreden to be "the best example of creative publishing in the year...
...from Missouri to Alexander Woollcott, who had died in the interim (TIME, Feb. 1). Wrote 70-year-old Actress Adams: "The Empire is so dear to me it is difficult to speak of her. It seems almost like praising one's mother." Sixty-nine-year-old Edna Wallace Hopper (looking incredibly young) and 76-year-old Cyril Scott played a scene from The Girl I Left Behind Me in which they had appeared on the Empire's opening night...