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...Cyrillic script. No Westerner, much less a brash young American, has ever advanced to the finals. Never, that is, until now, and the resulting excitement among the estimated 60 million chess players round the world?and millions of others who do not know a double fianchetto from a double play???is of the kind usually reserved for an epic heavyweight championship fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Brains | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

...weeks Broadway had buzzed with rumors that Playwright Moss Hart, who is being psychoanalyzed, would bring to town a Freudian musical play???a play that would startle the theatre as Doctor Sigmund himself once startled the hospital. Then Broadway stopped buzzing and began to huzzah, for last week Producer Sam Harris delivered Moss Hart's Lady in the Dark, a $130,000 baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Most of the subcommittee's hearings so far have been a post-mortem of the stock crash and the part the Federal Reserve played?or failed to play???to avert catastrophe. From the financiers who passed before his committee Senator Glass, arch enemy of stock speculation, got little support for his bills to penalize speculators with a new tax and to restrict the Federal Reserve's loan policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reserve Review | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Full of work and full of play?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Doctor's Son | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Marlowe (John Price Jones), has flunked his astronomy just before the opening chorus, two days prior to the intercollegiate crisis with Colton. The heroine, Connie Lane (Mary Law-lor), tutors him for a make-up examination, which he passes?be-cause the professor shows college spirit. One minute to play???the stage darkens and Tom Marlowe is seen tearing off 40 yards against Colton and a treadmill. He fumbles, but by trick playwrighting the fumble is converted into a lateral pass to the leading comedian (Gus Shy, who really is funny). Thus, the game is won; future generations of Tait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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