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RESHEVSKY has given up his job and devotes all his time to chess. In his three-room Brooklyn apartment, where his wife and two children are more interested in keeping up his scrapbook than in playing chess, Reshevsky analyzes the significant games played in major tournaments, dating back to the London championship of 1851. He must have at his mental fingertips all of the important positions that have cropped up in hundreds of trail-blazing games of the past and present. An idea of the combinations he must keep in his head can be gained from the fact that...
Sears' catalogue has been known on farms for half a century as the Wishbook, or the farmer's best friend. A scrapbook of America, it has mirrored the country's changing manners and habits. In the early days, Sears' ultimate in sophistication was a solid gold toothpick with earspoon combined, its recommendation for an evening's entertainment a stereoscope with "twelve splendid views portraying in the most vivid manner the story of our Savior's life before & after Crucifixion." Sickly Sears customers were urged to wear a "Heidelberg Electric Belt" for nervous diseases, headaches...
Edward A. Pollock, 28, a Manhattan bank clerk, collects TIME covers as a hobby. Before he puts them into his scrapbook, however, he sends them out to the cover subjects for autographs. "I was always attracted by the covers," he says, "and I thought it would make an interesting collection for my young...
ROBERTA PETERS, who comes from The Bronx, and, like Patrice Munsel, studies with William Herman. A chirrupy young (21) soprano and a born actress, she made a surprise hit as Zerlina in Don Giovanni last year. Sopranos Peters and Munsel are mutual admirers: Roberta keeps a scrapbook on Patrice, and Patrice, who often sits through Roberta's lessons, admiringly pronounces Roberta "great...
...begins taking itself as solemnly as Gone With the Wind, and seems to last almost as long. For a couple of reels Lotta yearns for the stage before Producer Jessel lets her go on; then he takes her on a tour that dawdles like an actor poring over his scrapbook. Her suitor follows on horseback. First she thinks he is a gambler, then a bandit, before he emerges proudly as a Southern patriot...