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More than a month of taciturn struggle at the Hotel Manhattan Square, Manhattan, served to prove U. S. chess brains are currently inferior to foreign. First prize ($2,000) in the International Chess Masters' Tournament was awarded to Jose R. Capablanca, Havana; second ($1,500) to Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Paris; third ($1,000) to Aron Nimzowitch, Copenhagen. Frank J. Marshall, New York, lone U. S. entry, had continuous difficulty with his cerebellum; finished last among the careful movers...
...already arrived; a group of Congressmen, and no less a personage than Frank W. Stearns, intimate friend and adviser of the President. He looked inquiringly into the limpid water of the canal, sailed for Manhattan after a two-day visit. In the near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect...
...Wales: "In London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture of the criminal so described. The face was mine. Next day, police officials confessed the error, denied that I was the criminal wanted." Elihu Root: "Last week, a few days after...
Also last week, news came from Paris that Ernest Rodriguez, 17, onetime employe of the Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, had been apprehended and convicted for a $6000 series of check forgeries beginning at Butte, Mont., and passing through Reno, Denver, Toronto, Montreal, Havana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Lucerne, Naples, Rome, Florence, Nice, Berne, Madrid, back to Paris...
Clarence Dillon, investment banker: "Mortgage Bond Salesman Josiah Kirby (now in Atlanta penitentiary) used to hire special trains to picnic his salesmen. Last week 700 employes and officials (all male) of the National Cash Register Co., which I bought a year ago, (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926) sailed for Havana on the Holland-American liner Volendam, chartered especially for them...