Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Absent from the reunion was an anonymous genius with a more extraordinary career. Second brightest in the whole group, he graduated from, high school at 15, became a professional bridge player-for stakes-was rated the world's No. 7 amateur chess player. At 19 he suddenly gave up gambling, went to University of Chicago, whizzed through a four-year course in a year. At 25, well launched toward a career as a lawyer, he died of cancer...
Documentary films, depicting the history of the Southwestern Indians, will be shown this evening at 7:15 o'clock in the chess room of the Harvard Union during an American Civilization Program for Freshmen...
...Freshman chess enthuiasts will get a chance to pit their skill against a mental giant tomorrow night when John A. Moore '39, formerly known as "the Eliot House madman" and now a Junior Prize Fellow, takes on all comers at an organizing meeting of the Chess Club...
...meeting, announced yesterday by Clarence W. Hewlett, Jr. '42, president of the Harvard Chess Club, will be held in the Upper Common Room of the Union, and will probably determine what Freshmen will represent the Chess Club in its intercollegiate engagements this year...
...special interests of the Yardlings found a still larger group--129--favorable toward a discussion group devoted solely to international relations. The Freshman Concert Audience also received generous support, with 123 expressing interest in that musical series. "Dramatics" and "Debating and Discussion Groups" received 69 votes apiece, and chess enthusiasts, numbering 61, were close behind...