Word: pocketing
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...anchored in San Francisco Bay, its brass-filigreed bow and mahogany-planked deck gleaming in the sun. But for California's boat-loving C. Kilmer Myers, the Daring will serve as a year-round home-and Myers is paying the reported $50,000 price out of his own pocket. When Myers was elected to the see of California in 1966, after the resignation of the late James A. Pike, he inherited a 19-room mansion that the diocese, at Pike's request, had bought for more than $100,000. Bishop Myers requested that the residence be sold...
...result of the Fischer phenomenon has been the spread of chess fever through TIME'S ranks. Alexandra Mezey, who researched the story, uses a pocket chess set to brush up on her king's side defense during spare moments. Kennedy and Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, recently engaged in a cross-country match via telex with Hillenbrand and other Los Angeles bureau members. After 23 moves, when the West Coast wood pushers' victory seemed assured, they revealed that they had used former U.S. Champion Larry Evans to direct their game. This week, with Hillenbrand already...
...explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli's car, and authorities held him as a witness under $250,000 bail. Eboli, freshly barbered and wearing a gold crucifix around his neck, was found with $2,077 in a pocket of his blue sports jacket...
...evening is secluding himself in a hotel room and ?slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses?he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...
...books he tampered with scores to make his efforts seem more brilliant. Upon losing a game, he would sometimes hurl his king across the room. Married five times and a heavy drinker, he appeared at one exhibition and urinated on the floor. He died destitute in 1946, clutching a pocket chess...