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...Soviet checkers champion.) During World War II, Spassky's parents were separated; he was evacuated from Leningrad and lived for a period in an orphanage in the Kirov Region. He learned the game when he was five. At ten, he played former World Champion Botvinnik in an exhibition match???and won. Said Botvinnik: "This boy will become world champion...
Principal Kreuger company is Swedish Match???Svenska Tändsticks. It makes 66% of the world's matches, controlling 250 plants in 43 nations. In 1930 its earnings came to $13,000,000. This company's growth was due to Ivar Kreuger's efforts and its rise paralleled his own. Sweden's match industry began in the latter part of the 19th Century. Small factories sprang up all over the country. In 1903 a merger of many of the companies formed Vulcan Match Manufacturing Co. which began to force the smaller companies out. In 1907 Ivar Kreuger, then 27, arrived...
Fourth Night Cards favored Lenz & Jacoby (203 aces & kings to 157) as they had through the whole match???636 to 596. Mr. Culbertson prefaced play, as he had each night previously, by saying to his opponents: "Have you changed your systems?" Said Mrs. Culbertson: "That's getting a little monotonous, Ely." Disappointed because the conflicting elements of the Culbertson and Lenz systems had been infrequently demonstrated so far, experts were pleased at the first Culbertson two-demand bid, which produced a small slam in clubs...
...less to make shots than to "leave them safe"?leave both object balls at one end of the table and the cue ball at the other. In salaries, cash prizes and percentages of gate receipts there was $10,000 up for the winner of this final 50-point match???every point worth, therefore, $200. For once Layton was not smiling; Reiselt, with lines standing out in his sallow face, played like a machine. At the end of 31 innings the score was 23 for Layton, 22 for Reiselt. The smoky, crowded room was hot, and each man dried...
...famed is Halfback Eddie Tryon, the hardest blob in Colgate's tube, but he met his match???and who would it be but Dinty Moore, red-haired Lafayette quarterback? Once Dinty Moore intercepted a Tryon pass that would have meant a touchdown, and ran it back to midfield; over and over he gained. Score: Colgate 7; Lafayette...