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But he turned them down with a flimsy excuse that there wasn't enough money In it for him. And so I can report that Bobby Is a typical American 16-year-old South America has tried, too. And while they actually got him down there, it was all they could do to keep him feeling secure and not afraid that he would be done out of his prize money. kid with typical teen-aged needs and typical porridge crumbs on his typical sweater. It is only by Providence that he happens to be the U.S.

Chess Champion, and the youngest International Grandmaster of chess of all time. Well, you can Imagine what It is to be a teen-ager, when life's uncertainties begin to loom over you, and find yourself matching strategy against men On his return, one of New York's most venerable Chess clubs held a reception for him. But even they had missed the wjTw BOBBY FISCHER I I jpZ He Speaks Only Chess WWCWEP 1mJ5 kW combination to his secret heart. He did not show up. two and three times your age So, it has been left up to the and beating them at it.

In the first place, it's a terri newsmen and photographers to break through the boy's insecurity and tell him that he can ble strain on a typical- gangling kid. One false move and you can knock all those little chess trust in America because we care. pieces on the floor. At one time or another, almost And in the second place. It's an unfair attack on your sense everybody has tried.

But invaria of security, having all those full- grown players trying to outwit bly, the formula has been wrong. And it would stagger your mind to total up the number of newsman-hours lost ovdr chess games you. It's the kind of thing that turns other, weaker kids Into hos with people guaranteed to be tile delinquents or juvenile reb els. And Bobby would be the there, of course. But I did have the good luck to be allowed to take his suitcases back to the city with me." Well, what nobody knew was: There is a secret ritual you have to go through before you can see Bobby.

It works this way: You make an appointment with him through Simon and Schuster, the publishers of Bobby's "Games of Chess." You arrive at the appointed time, and 45 minutes later an editor comes in and sets up a chess board. "This one has a very interesting middle game," the editor says, first to admit it. But unfortu "Bobby's best friend; they see each uther every afternoon." "But who knows?" a magazine reporter shrugged at me. "You may be the lucky one. I came pretty close myself.

I had an appointment to meet him at a big beginning to play chess with him- 1 1 IMW-; MJ I Wl self. "Bobby would find this one Eggtsgggil and the wy hes a golo, an" just when 'sxo bad nilito chnllpnffine VWJRKING.VCHJ'D MINE UP LETS ZEBO HOW THOUGHT WHOOEY I AIKTT (30T SOME IS moiiciigiiiB. OOP'S UP ON 1 THINK HE'D HIT ON PIKES IN ON HIS COW 1 UTUE OL' THIS IS BLACK POWDER The editor, who admits readily pikes peak I a gold vein pexhowV piqgings strike had hardtO lli-sl J-iiUe he will never be a eood at chess A3 thick A3 ridiculous andsee Aiuit rr irrT "I T' BEUEVEI as Bobby soon gets into real "IrHiV5 lw11 AkRM' CAN 1,00 GEhWTl if jeopardy with himself. But just if (0( p5 'g -M 1 "lv gangles into the room, assays the assurance 15 or 20 lashes of it! 7 t' -r KrX 2li3JlW LISTEN- A PLANEL THEY'RE I tlf WILL VOll HAVF; WE OKI fliiPC7c uEeo runw unr I j(Ti COME FOR. THE PUISONERStJ ROOM FOR THREE YOU IN, IF YOU'RE LETTINO US MEE'.

DROP IWUSTGETr ywiir-r READy TO GO! JI NERVE GAS, POONEl IN AND SEE uT HOWE AT ONCE. OLD CHAP? h(sfci I IT WON'T BE MISUSED ME AGAIN Sightless Scholar MADISON, Wis. tfl Norman resort where he had been invit Coombs, graduate history student and instructor at the University ed free of charge because he was a champion. "He had left long before I got of Wisconsin, has won a Ful bright scholarship to conduct re search at Kings College of the University of London. Is That So! Coombs is one of the few blind persons ever to receive a Ful- bright award.

Hundreds of Eagles Destroyed For Convenience SAN DIEGO, Calif, (fl After By 01. OA BURNS fish on its way down to the wa tcr. hearing testimony of John L. Benjamin Franklin wanted to Adams a police accident investigator, Municipal Judge Ron Usually, they nest in the top of a tree, but sometimes they may be found on an inaccessible rocky ald Abernathy declared a recess have the turkey made the national emblem, but the Founding Fathers insisted that it be the bald eagle, largest of all eagles, and so they did so. la the trial.

ledge. The nest consists of a huge platform that may be better than He took Adams and Margaret Roush, who had been among court spectators, into his office and married them. Adams had arranged for this double day in Very likely the Founding Fathers did not realize the nature of their decision, for of them in the country. In California, for example, they were so thick that it was not at all unusual for egg hunters to collect as many as a dozen eggs in a day. The adults were also slaughtered by hunters, mainly for target practice but in many cases because it was felt they ale too many fish.

As a result, their numbers were so reduced that today they can be found only in the wildest parts of the coastal areas. It is true that primarily they are fish eaters, but it is not true that they make any serious inroads on the fish population, or ever have. The reason is that five feet across. In the center is a small depression where the eggs are laid. The extra space is a landing stage, quite necessary for a bird that may measure OUT OUR WAY MAJOR HOOPLE the bald eagle is a sea eagle, and court.

seven feet from tip to tip. Almost as large as the bald CHECK CM LORD vnt IN AvniTMWA I nor ccorj only the wildest dreamer of the time could have envisioned the United States becoming the dominant sea power of the world in TAKING HIM SO Llk BESI- AND HERS I THOUGHT eagle, and frequently seen in the interior and mountains, is the LONG? DRAT IT, IF 4 IWe WERE ALL TO DO CUR BIT TO gOLSTER I BRITISH-AMSSlCAM RELATIONS tvjT WE WA OUT YES, I ,1 WILD FLOWERS, MOM, AU KNOW i'l I I HAP A SWELL BIO BUNCH HOW II' 1 FER.WXI--6UTIMETMAZEL-- 1 IT IS JI YOU KNOW THT HAZEL I ll'J, to WELL, I MET HER I AN WELL, SCU KNOW HOW IT IS. GOT ANYTHING OOOO Ll 4 AKOUNP i-' I only a little over a century and rtKLY 16 A golden eagle. His head is covered I'LL SB LAUGHED. i Me.

vkv; half. The bald eagle, of course, is no OUT OF TOWn7 with dark brown feathers so that there is no possibility of mistak p-l-JMAnHS fcXGXISH CUPPER THAT more bald than it is an inhabitant ruLLrL iN.u i5 Kr-LLY ing him for the other which he except for the occasional flying of the mountain areas and the rUH otherwise resembles in many re WHAT WAS THAT, interior. It is called bald only spects. fish that the bald eagle takes on the wing, most of their catch is made up of fish that are already LOVE because the feathers on its head are white enough so that at a dis He is a fierce bird and an in either dead or dying. tance it looks as if it had none.

i II Us home is along the sea telligent one. In the main his diet consists of rats, rabbits, snakes and just about any kind of a creature that can be con coasts and the shores of lakes and the larger rivers. As recently as 1900 there were thousands The bald eagle can and sometimes does plunge into the water in pursuit of a fish and completely submerge, but that only rarely happens. He isn't well adapted to that type of work. Furthermore, It Isn't usually nec veniently handled, including foxes and raccoons.

But if the smaller game Isn't available, the larger types will do. In that case it is a combined essary. There are plenty of other birds that do pursue and catch operation, several eagles teaming up to make the kill. They have been known to kill calves by fish, like ospreys and some of the gulls. And since the bald eagle having one of their number attack and distract the mother.

is perfectly willing to eat them, and sometimes does, when they 7 It! They have also been known to see one coming, they drop their prey in order to get away with kill buck deer, tearing at its back STALLINS until the animal bled to death fgg all possible speed. In that case the eagle merely picks off the (Copyright, 1959, by Olga Burns).