Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most eyes were focused on a 24-year-old Polish Jew named Samuel Reshevsky, who started to play at 5. toured Europe as a chess prodigy at 8, startled U. S. experts at 9 by winning 41 out of 42 simultaneously-played matches. In 1924 he came to the attention of the late Julius Rosenwald, who was so impressed that he spent $11,000 to send Reshevsky through high school and college. Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1933 with only average grades, Reshevsky resumed chess, made his debut in European international play last year by beating onetime World...
...list of competitors. The second week he steadied, tied for the lead with 21-year-old Albert Simonson, youngest entrant. Last week Youngster Simonson, still tied with Reshevsky on the last day, lost his final match. Playing with customary meticulousness and gulping huge draughts of ice water, Samuel Reshevsky contented himself with a draw against his last opponent, became U. S. chess champion by a ^ point margin...
Died. Virginia Van Vliet Insull, sister-in-law of onetime Chicago Utilitarian Samuel Insull; after long illness; in Orillia, Ont. Her husband, Martin John Insull was implicated with his brother Samuel in the collapse of the Insull utility empire...
...December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., on a North Carolina hunting trip last winter (TIME, Feb. 6). Mr. Law's successor was William Harmstead Kingsley, who started in the company as an office boy in 1885 after graduation from Philadelphia's Girard College...
Winners of the other races were: Junior Singles, Samuel H. Rindge 1L; Novice Singles, Robert S. Chafee '36; 155-1b. Singles, Ivan M. Korbel '39; Narrow Compromise, Andrew Heiskell 1G.B.; Broad Compromise, Charles K.C. Lawrence '38; and Wherry, Robert H. Morse...