Word: schoolbags
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...figured he was the equal of a grand master; and each one plunked down $25 for the right to trade gambits with Boris Spassky, the former world champion. The simultaneous matches quickly turned into a boisterous chess happening. Six-year-old Robert le Donne bounced in toting his schoolbag; another player brought along a sustaining bottle of borsch; a third steadfastly refused repeated offers of $50 to relinquish his board. Spectators standing on chairs and stepladders strained for a better view of the action...
...Thursdays and Saturdays to the future. On those days a green-eyed, curly-haired little boy came running up the road to Bonnard's villa, just outside of Cannes, for a talk about painting. Solemn little Edouard Capra, who is now only ten, always brought along a dilapidated schoolbag full of paints and brushes, and-wrapped in newspapers under his arm,-a new painting to show the master...