Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HEYDAY OF A WIZARD -Jean Burton-Knopf...
...perhaps 40 leather covers on its butt. With it he won the straight-rail world championship from Maurice Daly in 1877, the Champions Game title from Maurice Vigneaux in 1882, the cushion-caroms title in 1884, the 14.2 balkline championship in 1887, the 18.1 balkline title from Jacob ("Wizard") Schaefer in 1888, the 18.2 balkline title from Willie Hoppe...
...Detroit Free Press came out flatly: Sorensen was fired "while he was fishing in the Bahamas out of reach of the telephone." It then went on to say that spry old Henry Ford himself had swung the ax. This was as shocking to some motormen as if the wizard of Dearborn had slashed off his own right...
...been a fiasco. Troops had been pushed within easy reach of German land-based air power; communications were so badly organized that landing parties had trouble contacting headquarters at Cairo 500 miles away; equipment was rusty and inadequate. Some wit rose to the occasion by dubbing Jumbo "The Wizard of Cos." Another commented that the Russians shoot generals who fail, the Americans find soft jobs for them, the British promote them...
Like American poker, chess is a Russian indoor sport. Last week there was a big chess upset: Wizard Mikhail Botvinnik was checkmated in 50 moves by the Moscow titleholder, Vasili Smyslov...