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Jun 2, 2014
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batgirl wrote:
I enjoyed reading the newspaper clipping about the game and the mention made of the 1945 Pan-American tournament ...
"Humphrey Bogart is one of a number of Hollywood stars who relax with chess. It may ne remembered that they turned out in force to kibitz gthe Pan-American Tournament in 1945 in which Mitzy Mayfair played in the women's event under her married name of Mrs. Charles Henderson, while Carmen Minanda, Barbara Hale, Linda Darnell ... participated in the varioous social functions ..."
Who would've thought?!!
George C. Scott and Stanley Kubrick.
http://supervillain.tumblr.com/post/21790360063/george-c-scott-and-stanley-kubrick-playing-chess