Word: lasker
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Such symbolism aside, the motives and methods of chess players are as varied as their personalities. Even among the small number of men who have been world champions in this century there have been polar differences. Emanuel Lasker, title holder from 1894 to 1921, was a philosopher, mathematician and thoroughgoing "square" by most psychological standards. His satisfactions from chess appear to have been entirely intellectual. Cuba's Jose Capablanca (champion from 1921 to 1927), who gave up the orderliness of a projected career in engineering to become a chess giant and his country's hero, enjoyed competition...
Oneupmanship? Before the era of the time clock, delaying tactics were so common that in 1851 British Historian Henry Buckle wrote two chapters of his History of Civilization in England while waiting for his opponent to make a move. During a match with World Champion Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921), Steinitz slurped a glass of lemonade so noisily that Lasker moved to a separate table. Some of Lasker's victims claimed in turn that the champion stunned them with his foul-smelling cigars. World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik( 1948-57,1958-60, 1961-63) used to train for a match by having...
...lion would dare take on the First Lady's imposing retinue of 40, which included Evangelist Billy Graham, Mrs. John H. Johnson, wife of the publisher of Ebony and Jet, and Bernard Lasker, former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange board of governors...
Slow Worker. Little known in lay circles, Sutherland has for years been a recognized leader among his colleagues. They believe that his findings are basic to any understanding of body chemistry. Last year his experiments brought him the Lasker Award, the 22nd time since 1946 that this distinction has presaged a Nobel. Though he became interested in hormone studies 25 years ago, Sutherland considers almost everything he did before 1960 merely preparation for his recent research, which established the importance of his earlier findings. "I guess I'm just a slow worker," he says...
...bill calling for identification of product contents during commercial breaks was killed because of the fear of lost advertising revenue. Radio-style advertising became recognized as a determinant of public opinion; when Upton Sinclair threatened to ride into the California governorship with his wealth-sharing EPIC plan, Albert Lasker, first NBC advertising counsel, was called to Hollywood to aid in his defeat. It was no surprise, then, that the Wagner-Hatfield proposal, which called for guaranteed educational control of 25 per cent of the radio spectrum, received little support when it came up before the Roosevelt-formed Federal Communications Commission...