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...Samuel Reshevsky, when he was six, toured his native Poland playing two dozen opponents simultaneously and rarely losing. At 14, Bobby Fischer, the game's reclusive genius, won both the U.S. junior and senior championships. But none of these men quite prepared the chess world for the triple-threat Polgar sisters of Budapest, who last week took the New York Open Chess Tournament by carefully calculated storm...
DIED. Franz J. Polgar, 79, celebrated mesmerist and mind reader who claimed to have hypnotized more than a million people during his lifetime; of illness resulting from a brain tumor; in Miami. The Hungarian-born Polgar, who held doctorates in economics and psychology, said he discovered his telepathic powers upon recovering from amnesia and aphasia caused by World War I battle wounds. A good snowman who performed on the lecture circuit, he also conducted a lifelong campaign to establish hypnosis as a scientific discipline, especially useful as a substitute for anesthesia during childbirth and in curing the smoking habit...
...general use until June 1960, and not used in large numbers until a year later. Nonetheless, nearly 4,000,000 women are now using the pill, and, points out Boston's Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in birth-control development, "they're not getting pregnant." Steven Polgar, research director of the Planned Parenthood Federation, confidently credits the pill with at least one-fourth of the drop since 1961. In selected poverty areas where the pill has been distributed wholesale by social workers, results have been as dramatic as Polgar suggests. At medical centers in New York...
Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, an audience that had come to watch a demonstration of hypnosis got more than it bargained for. The star attraction, Franz Polgar, was illustrating his powers on a dark-haired young woman when he was interrupted by shouted challenges from rival Hypnotist Ralph Slater (who performs in Loew's neighborhood theaters). Ushers rushed back & forth trying to restore quiet, but the meeting ended in uproar...