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1 Binghamton, N. Oct. 12, 1958 THE SUNDAY PRESS 70 Word! My Chess Wliizz Fischer, 15, Out to Be World Champ Ex-Sunday School Teacher Rank Me Put Britain on Movie Map vv.v jwwy 'iiwimniiinjujiininiji I win mi i ii il I I i EDITOR'S NOTE: In outward appearance and behavior young Bobby Fischer is much like any other teenager. But his grand passion is chess, and havina recently become an international grand master, he's now aiming for the world "championship held by Soviet Russia. NEW YORK There's a Batman comic book on his bedside table and a rock 'n roll program blaring over his radio, he's slouchy, gangly and crew-cut.

But Batman is sprawled over an open chess book and his naikbitten fingers are deftly moving chess pieces over the black and white board which means more to him than anything else in his life. Bobby Fischer doesn't want to be a baseball star or a football player or the most popular fellow at the prom. He wants to be chess champion of the world and it seems a pretty sure bet he will be. Most Americans don't know it, but their honor in a big international contest with Russia is riding on the thin shoulders of this 15-year-old boy from Brooklyn. Bobby is hailed by the experts as the greatest chess mind the world has pro- Yr 4 -SNA i MMmM 'ii' i -mim JUt inf 4 in iriniiiiiiiiiriiiTin mmmmmrnmmmHmmmmtrwMwiwwmMMmMii-nm THE BARON UNBENDS Lord Rank links arms with a group of starlets during a rare visit to one of his movie studios neear London.

AN AMERICAN PRODIGY Young Bobby Fischer in a characteristic pose during a tournament. duced in many years. "He doesn't look like one-he looks more like a farmer's boy than an intellectual but he is a genius," says Hans Knoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, which is the nerve center of chess the United States. "Fischer is something unique. None of the great ones ever accomplished so much so early." He has become an interna- tional grand master the I youngest in the long history of the game and will meet the world's top seven players this year in a challengers' tournament.

The exact date and place remain to be deter-, mined. The winner will get a crack at the present world cham-I pion, Russia's Mikhail Botvin- nik. FAR, this hasn't meant much to most Americans who look on chess as an intricate pastime for contem-. plative graybeards. But now even people uninterested in -chess are beginning to feel it would be a fine feather in Uncle Sam's cap to have Bobby whip Russia's best play- ers in a game that commands great attention in Europe and South America.

Bobby himself who pre-' sents a porcupine exterior to i the world doesn't show much interest in possible cold war Implications of his career. He just wants to be champion. If he makes it this try, he'll be the youngest world cham-'pion in chess history and only the second American ever to occupy that lofty position. TTTmATtf1 TT school, this millionaire son of a British flour maker, and he decided movies could serve God's purpose. That was 25 years ago.

Today he controls the British film industry, and he still passes out religious pamphlets. By NORMAN MOSS Associated Press Writer LONDON The world's biggest movie maker east of Hollywood, and its only real movie baron, is a pious, quiet-spoken, homey man who taught Sunday school for 40 years. He is Lord Rank of Sutton Scotney, who bought an interest in motion pictures because he wanted to make religious films for churches and went on to put British films on the global map. He is the figure behind 20 years of British movies ranging from "Oliver Twist" and "Hamlet" to comedy hits like "Genevieve." Set against a Hollywood Mogul, he is like a black and white documentary beside a cinemascope spectacular. A tall, bulky man of 70 with kindly eyes and a prominent hook nose, he moves quietly, dresses quietly and talks quietly.

He does not drink and expects to Jive a long time "to do God's work." Newspaper columnists never carry funny stories about him because they cannot find any. Lord Rank heads Rank Organization, Limited, which produces a quarter of the movies made in Britain. It owns two of the country's major chains of movie houses and many other theaters overseas. It makes supplies ranging from theater seats to camera lenses. It holds a position of control no American company can have because of the antitrust laws.

NO ONE was surprised when J. Arthur Rank was made a baron last year for his services to British films. It was widely felt that some national honor for this extraordi-ncry figure was long overdue. What did surprise people was that he had ever got mixed up witn movies at all. Lord Rank, himself, said in an interview that soon after he found himself in the film business, he acquired two aims: "I wanted to raise the moral and entertainment standards o' British films, "And I wanted to win for them a fair share of the world's screen time away from American films.

This included screen time in British cinemas too, remember. British films were not too popular here before the war." He achieved these aims. "Except in the United States," he says, giving voice to an old frustration. His latest move to push more British films in the United States was the opening of his first American movie house, the Odeon in New York. This is the kind of enterprise his father would approve.

LORD RANK was born Dec. Dec. 23. 1888, the son of a multi-millionaire. His father was a self-made flour mill owner who taught his children the old-fashioned virtues he himself practiced: Hard work, thrift, simple pleasures, patriotism and the personal, revivalist' Christianity of British Methodism.

Son Arthur has lived al Ihis life in that spirit. For the first 45 years of it he showed no special distinction. 54 Cesspool 56 Eyes 57 Sense 60 Hasten 61 Heed 62 Exploded 63 Corner 64 Mongol 65 Marshal 66 Feigns igorance: 2 words 68 Singe 73 Have 75 Habit 76 Elevate In Philadelphia Orchestra Next On Firestone The first U. S. champion was Paul Morphy, who turned the trick at 21 a century ago.

Bobby, who could give a clam lessons on how to keep its mouth shut, won't say what he thinks of his chances. Nobody else thinks he will make it this time. But then, nobody thought he could win the American chess championship at 14 and nobody expected him to do very well at the recent international chess tournament in Yugoslavia. As the big chess players, all champions in their own countries, sat down opposite the bony young American, each informed him that he would be beaten. Some were nicer than others they said they were sorry to have to defeat him.

They didn't need to be. Most of them didn't. Bobby, playing in his first international competition, pulled out of his early difficulties and tied for fifth place winning his place in the star-studded challengers. lOBBY is a tall boy with the classic adolescent slump and lisht brnwn hair. He eyes strangers in general and reporters in particular with glum distrust.

"Most reporters ask stupid questions. What do I eat for breakfast? That's not important. Why don't they ask about chess?" he said. He sat on his bed, idly moving the figures on the chess board in front of him. He was dressed as usual in a sports shirt.

Bobby won the American chess championship in dungarees and a T-shirt; no one remembers seeing him in a coat HANCOCK Educated at a private school in Cambridge, he worked conscientiously as a director of his father's big milling industry in London, commuted to a country house and was an active church official. In 1917, he married Laura Ellen Marshall, daughter of Lord Marshall of Chipstead. They have two daughters. One Sunday in 1933, after he had finished teaching his Sunday school class, Rank was trying to work out some new way to spread the gospel when he thought of films. "Why should the devil have all the best tunes?" he told a Methodist leader as he argued for his idea.

The next year he formed an organization to make films for churches. In 1935, he was persuaded to finance a company to make feature and religious films, with the former paying for the latter. B' UT the company's first film, "Turn of the Tide," could not get a showins: the film renters didn't think it worth one. A man not easily balked, Rank bought into the film distribution business and gave it a showing himself. Subsequently, with a canny and at times almost uncanny business sense, he expanded his interests as gaps opened in the ailing British film industry.

He built an empire without raising his voice. His money gave producers a financial stability many had not known before and to this Rank added creative freedom. In the war and postwar yea.rs, British films acquired a stature they had not known before. Rank films like "In Which We Serve," "A Matter of Life and Death," "Great Expectations," "Henry the Fifth" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets" made a distinctly British contribution to screen entertainment. "I like to think." Lord Rank says, "that the man in, say, the Middle East who sees the film 'Hamlet' comes away with just a little more respect for Britain." THE Rank Organization has had its ups and downs.

Postwar over-expansion resulted in some costly screen flops and a bank account overdrawn by $60,000,000. Television reared its competitive head. Right now Rank is cutting back spirit 78 Complacent: 2 words 79 Hold at bay 80 Auld Lang 82 Prejudice 83 Part of a vessel 84 Purified 85 Law 87 Adjective for highway: 2 words 88 Replace 91 Zephyr sharply on production and employment. It closed more than 75 movie theaters last year. But Lord Rank is optimistic and promises: "The best is yet to come." In the' glittering, madcap movie world, Lord Rank remains unchanged the stolid Methodist Yorkshire trader.

He still makes religious films. It's a great source of pride that the U. S. National Council of Churches presented him with the Golden Reel Awards for the best religious films of the last two years. Joan Cravford To Plav Comic With Boh Hope New York Joan Crawford, noted dramatic star, will make her TV comedy debut when she joins the guest roster for Bob Hope's show Tuesday night (Channel 40 at 9 p.

Hope's other guest stars will include French comedian Fer-nandel, who has appeared with Hope previously, and the Bernard Brothers, an American mimic team featured in England and France during the last two years. Miss Crawford, former Academy Award winner, made her last screen appearance in "The Story of Esther Cos-tello." Hope plans both a comedy sketch and a song-and-dance routine with Miss Crawford. This Pressman Loves His Work Bisbee, Ariz. Mike Burgos likes his job as a pressman at the Bisbee Daily Review. He was stricken with appendicitis and emergency surgery was ordered.

He refused to go into the operating room until doctors had telephoned the paper and promised Mike he could have a few days off. After the operation, the 18- year-old pressman tried to crawl out of bed, explaining, "I gotta get dressed and get back to work." 94 Brooch 95 del Sarto 96 Singer 97 Full of pep 99 Opposed to zenith 100 Central Amer. Indians 101 Like menthol 103 Food regimen 106 Leave out 107 Crimsons 109 Yale 111 Cover 1 12 Terminus New York One of the world's great symphony orchestrasthe Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy will make its first concert and nationwide TV appearance following its triumphant summer tour of Europe and Russia, on Voice of Firestone, tomorrow at 9 p. m. Metropolitan Opera soprano Hilde Gueden will be soloist The program will originate from the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.

John Daly is the program narrator. Miss Gueden andhe-Srches-tra will be heard in Verdi's "Sempre Libra" and the Czardas from Strauss' "Fle-dermaus." Also on program: Overture: "Secrets of Suzanne" by Wolf-Ferrari; "Ride of the Valkyrie" by Wagner and "Roumanian Rhapsody" by Enesco. Letter Perfect Bonifay, FU. Just name a letter in the alphabet. Mr.

and Mrs. Allen W. Bowlin of Boni- jfay have a son or daughter whose initials match it. Their 13 children are Audie Bryant, Curtis Drue, Ehra Faye, Grady Hampton, Ida Jeanett, Knola Leantha, Millard Nathan, Olivia Penelopy, Quincy Ruth, Sarah Thelma, Ulisese Vinson, Wilson Xava, and Yon Zircle. i words to usTEn to music BV I HANK says, is no disciplinary problem.

"There's nothing to disci-pline him about," Mrs. Fischer explains. "The only thing I do is nag him to take his nose out of his chess books and go outside for some fresh air. "You know, that's what aggravates me so. He used to be terrific in athletics.

He didn't talk until he was practically 2 years old, but he was climbing all over the place." Bobby started in the game at age 6 when Joan got a chess set and the two puzzled out the directions. Mrs. Fisher doesn't know a thing about chess. "I spent four years trying to get him away from it, but I've given up now," she says. "He was only 8 when he first went the the Brooklyn Chess Club.

He was pretty sensitive and they used to tease him about thinking he could play with grownups. He played about four years before he won at all. "I tried to stop him. The school people say I should try to get him away from it. He used to get awfully upset.

"You know, people say it's the publicity that attracts him to chess. Well, there wasn't any glory for years. It was all discouragement." Monoxide Method Harrellsville, N. C. (ITD When commercial poisons failed to get rid of his rats, E.

G. Blythe rigged a piece of old water hpse to the exhaust pipe of his truck and ran the otheri end to the rat holes. He hasn't been bothered by the rats since. HORIZONTAL I Ane'ent lorry Egyptian Arbiters, for short 9 Displeases: SI. 14 Author Michener 19 Chills and fever 20 She: Fr.

21 Bay window 22 Fallacies, in logic 23 Tear 24 Form of poetry: 2 words 24 Daffy 27 Conclude 29 Actor Franc hot 30 Metric measure 32 French article 33 Cast 34 Baseball's Speaker 35 Carry: Colloq. 34 Novice 37 Gauiy 39 Edict 40 Communist leader 41 Actor Guinness 57 Toss a coin 58 Pester for payment 59 Small, as a town: Colloq. 62 Author O'Casey 63 Wings 64 Bugle call 67 Draft against Insufficient funds: 2 words 69 Seines 70 Well That Ends 71 Mine products 72 Without reservation: 2 words 74 Juana 75 On the alert 76 Vessel 77 Small birds 81 Person 83 Murmur softly 84 Bathinq place 86 Ingredient of shellac 87 Accepted 88 Speed contest 89 Japanese coin 90 Part of the Hig EVERYBODY knows that little boys are made of ships and snails and puppy dogs' tails. Another handy recipe is two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen, and thank goodness the epouse remembers the sage dressing formula for next month's But what are phonograph records made of? and tie. The Russians keep winning the big ones in chess, he said, because "everbody there plays.

They're subsidized. Sure, they put out a lot of books. Yeah, I can read a little Russian I can read the moves. I can speak a little. Mr.

Pressman at NYU (New York University) taught me. "No, you don't talk at chess tournaments. Why should you talk? Except when you offer a draw. But you can say anything. They know what you mean.

Chess players speak lots of languages. "Fun? No, a tournament's no fun, but they're all right." Does he think he can win the challengers and get a shot at the championship? He shrugged and twisted his lip. "I don't know." Wouldn't it be nice to bring the world chess crown back to the United States for the first time in a 100 years? A sudden, charming grin lit his face. And all at once you could see why the people who have got inside his prickly shell like Bobby Fischer very much indeed. "It would be nice," he agreed.

BOBBY has few friends his own age. He come home from school about 2 o'clock and picks up a chess book. Every spare minute, he is either reading about chess, analyzing moves on his bedside chess board or going somewhere to play chess. Girls are nothing to him. "Girls can't play chess," he says.

"Bobby isn't interested in anybody unless they play chess and there just aren't many kids who like it," says Mrs. Fischer. To make friends with Bobby, you not only have to play chess you have to play good chess. Maurice Kasper. president I or tne Manhattan Chess Club, commented: "We have about 100 students in the club that Bobby could associate with.

But he is so much superior, you see. He just plays with the stronger players. Yes, Bobby definitely does think well of himself. But he is a phenomenon that happens once in a hundred years in a thousand. "He is also a young boy.

He Is not accustomed tn snh publicity and he can't handle it yet. But you must give him a little time. He is a good boy." Until last year, Babby was little more than a good average student. But he is settling down and working hard. He scored an excellent 97 in New York State's Regents exam-on geometry last spring.

Prof. Aaron Pressman, who volunteered to tutor Bobby in Russian before the Yugoslav tournament, say Bobby is very bright. Pressman, who seems fond of Bobby, adds that the boy worked very hard and learned rapidly. BOBBY lives with his mother in a small fourth-floor walkup apartment in a neat section of Brooklyn. His 21-year-old sister, Joan, lived there too until her marriage last month.

Their parents separated when Bobby was 2. Mrs. Fischer, a University of Colorado graduate a registered nurse now earning her MA degree. Bobby, she I Sunday Press Crossword Puzzle Doubtless we've suffered together through hundreds of disembodied radio voices chanting brightly, stacks of shellac, the latest wax-ings. This column decided to brave the dusty archives and find out if the shellac-'n'-wax bit is for real.

We discovered that recordings have been etched on everything but the inside edge of a hoola hoop. As long ago as 1877 Thomas Edison tried paraffin paper tape with needle holes. In the same year he decided to live modern with the tinfoil-wrapped cylinder. T. A.

intoned "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on this paleolithic contrap- hank save as gooa as it got. Charley Tainter went upper crust in 1881 when he recorded his personal recitation of a chunk of Hamlet with an 'air-jet machine. Mr. Tainter and Chichester Bell used cardboard coated with wax for their Graphophone cylinders. Edison met the challenge with a swing to solid wax.

In 1901 Thomas E. introduced hard wax, the Gold Mold, and he buffaloed competition in 1908 with Amberole. When each new vat of Amberole wax was being melted, Mr. E. would tiptoe from his private lab and slyly empty a paperbagful of secret ingredients 'into the tub.

In '12 he issued the Blue Amberole of unbreakable plastic. In the meantime discs were becoming more popular than cylinders. Back in 1877 Frenchman Charles Cros had used a lass disc smothered in lampblack. Edison had tried a tinfoil disc in '78. Emile Berliner used the glass-lampblack approach then had it photoengraved in metal.

This he called the Gramophone, also in '78. The following year he tried a disc coated 108 Japanese born in U. S. 1 10 Setting-up exercises: 2 words 113 Hoar frost 116 Landlord's due 117 Author Bagnold 118 Send back 119 Hollow stems 120 Vortex 121 Agentst 114 Immature seed 115 ink Abbr. VERTICAL 17 Gantry 18 Dictum 1 Poster 2 Molding 3 Part of a gag: 2 words 4 Ennui 5 Insurgent 6 House wing 7 Road hazard: 2 words 8 Spanish women 9 Changes residence 10 Wrath 11 Emergency treatment: 2 words 12 Embellish 13 Brumal precipitation 14 Harmonize: Colloq.

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The Germans tried paper coated with iron oxide in the '20s. The first LPs were made of Vitrolac In 1931. The bottom fell out in '42 when the War Production Board cut non-military use of shellac or vinyl until Columbia wined, dined, and serenaded the assembled press, at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1948 with the then brand spanking new vlnyllte microgroove LP. Everything from A-mberole to Z-Inc. 44 Gentlemen 45 Discomfort 44 Uneven 49 Explosive device: 2 words 52 Member of crew 53 Mind one's (behave correctly): Phrase 55 Gazed Impudently 56 Exclamation preceding.