Word: postalized
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Last week, in the President Perón Salón of Buenos Aires' Postal Savings Building, Miguel Najdorf again sat facing stone-faced Sammy Reshevsky. Sipping coffee brewed under exquisite precautions against doping, Najdorf nonetheless seemed in the worst shape ever. Perspiring and twitching, wringing his shaky hands, frantically rumpling his hair, he leaped up after nearly every move to dash into the men's room, situated next to him as demanded by his strict terms. Once, while nearly 1,000 chess fans watched and chuckled, Najdorf soared from his chair as if it were...
...World War I he was wounded by a mustard-gas shell, lost his sight for five months and the power of speech for three years. Working as a clerk, he met and married Ethel Simpson, took a job as a postman but was caught opening mail and cashing postal orders, and went to jail for three months...
Above all, Lehrer is a satirist, and his greatest talent lies in parodying the conventional run of popular numbers. He tweaks the sentimental home town, commemorating the kindly school master who sells French postal cards after class, and then jibes at the Irish Ballad, the love song, and cowboys' lament...
...given differs in some respect from the way it is listed in our records. If the subscription is in the husband's name, Mr. Thomas Jones, his wife may write, signing her name Agnes Jones. Or a post office box number may have been changed, or the postal zone number may be left off. Other essential information may be missing from the new address. And sometimes subscribers are over-optimistic about the completion of their new homes...
From that day, young Captain Nasser, the son of a postal clerk, began ten years of underground preparation for the day when the corrupt Farouk would be overthrown. Service in the disastrous Palestine wars brought him a bad shoulder wound, increased his bitterness at Egypt's wretched regime, and intensified his determination. By 1949 he had enlisted seven trusted young officers. "I trained and brought up all the officers in the Free Movement," says Nasser. "I spent ten years on them. I tested them all without them knowing it." When the time came, Nasser and the others looked...