Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting Russians showed further examples of Russian thoroughness. They had brought along their own doctor, interpreter, a full group of advisers, and a watchful, poker-faced man listed as a state supervisor. Outnumbered, but seldom outmaneuvered, Polish-born Sam Reshevsky put up a game fight. At the double round-robin tournament's halfway mark, he was in the No. 2 spot, behind Russia's Vassily Smyslov, a 32-year-old language student from Moscow...
...Sam could do to hold it. Perhaps the most telling tactic of the Russians was their teamwork. In tournament chess matches, it is illegal to prompt a player as he sits at the board, but when a game has been adjourned (e.g., overnight), it is perfectly proper to take counsel from "seconds" (other players, who help map further strategy). The Russians happily seconded one another at every opportunity; Reshevsky's second was his non-chess-playing wife. Sipping countless cups of tea, Reshevsky managed to wind up in a triple tie for second place with two Russians...
...Sam Snead...
...professor at the University of Nebraska. Sam Brownell took his doctorate in education at Yale, later became professor of educational administration. In 1947 he also became president of the New Haven State Teachers College. As U.S. Commissioner, Brownell will find himself helping brother Herb with one of the hottest political potatoes of the year: the five school segregation cases, soon to reappear before the U.S. Supreme Court...
...from Mars (Columbia, 3-D) produced by "Jungle Sam" Katzman, is about a new X-bomb. "If this X-bomb explodes," says Katzman, "it will interfere with the axis that the world goes round on." There will be invaders from space, but Katzman has not decided what they will look like: "They might be eggheaded or helmeted...