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After six hours of grueling play, Reshevsky was two pawns to the good. Suddenly, after the 66th move, Ulvestad resigned. To the parlor chess player, who doesn't know when he is licked, and thinks he has a fighting chance until he is behind by a rook, two knights and his queen, it was an outrage. But Reshevsky, Ulvestad and the initiates knew that, between masters, Ulvestad's position was no longer tenable. Reshevsky, four-time winner of the biennial U.S. championship, had clinched it again...
...their burned clearing the first rescue party and the survivors, chilled by cold and rain, waited for the helicopters. Ruth Henderson, a New York Girl Scout executive, gave banjo imitations. Stewardess Jeanne Rook hobbled about, passing out medicines. For New York songwriter Rudy Revil, weeping over his badly burned hands, soldiers raked through the wreckage till they found his latest composition...
Tito's Rook...
...inverted rook on Marshal Tito's board (TIME, Aug. 21) part of a plan to confuse the enemy, or does it represent a second queen? If the latter, it has taken up an uncommonly defensive position to represent so audacious a strategist as the Marshal...
...whoever gets the job, Cordell Hull will give the orders. The forced resignation of Sumner Welles made one thing unmistakably clear: in the archaic rook ery that houses the U.S. State Department Cordell Hull is boss...