Word: chessboard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman, Alfred Hertz, Pablo Casals, Maria Jeritza and many another famed musician, he is a brilliant chess-player. In San Francisco he used to carry a little chessboard in his pocket. It was no unusual sight to see him take it out on a trolley car, set up a game...