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THE WILD BUNCH -1 ROBBCRt RoreiT 5 I Chess ypipi Brooklyn9 Smitli, Dies? (3DQ(o)DS Xg Id 9 mFMr It By Pearl Baker Aberlard-Schuman. $63)5 The Wlid Bunch, as evidenced by the movie version of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," and now the television series of "Alias Smith and Jones," is a remote echo of the motley crowd that actually infested the canyon and boulder strewn southeastern corner of Utah before and after the turn of the century. They had reputations as horse thieves, cattle rustlers, and bank and train robbers who bustled everything from pennies to gold shipments. They did not stop at murder either. Most of these woolly individuals were generally leaderless, drifting about with first one bunch and then the other.

Although they stole a small fortune during several decades of operations, careers often interrupted by short sentences to the state penitentiary, practically none of this loose cash turned up on their bullet punctured bodies when the vie-, torious posses propped their corpses up against store fronts for photographers. So the Robbers Roost area now has numerous buried treasure ends. Pearl Baker spins a relatively good tale even though it has almost no documentation. It is ironic that what I consider to be the book's most serious flaw' is in fact the reason why it is now being republished. She claims "new evidence" regarding the death of Butch Cassidy.

Most authorities accept the version that he and Sundance were killed in a gun-battle with Bolivian soldiers after moving to South America in 1902. The author flatly states that Cassidy wasn't slain, that through a ruse he survived and returned to the United States. According to secret information imported only to her, "Butch Cassidy is supposed to have died in the Northwest either in 1936 or 1937." Well, maybe so, but it's pretty thin proof. Frankly, I've seen better evidence supporting the theory that the earth is fiat. Leon C.

Metz MUTUAL RESPECT It gives you a lift just to look at the picture. It has warmth, tenderness, human interest and good camera technique. A photo like this in a hospital room might relieve someone's tension and "bring a few moments of pleasure. 'Tree Grows In Author, Betty (C) 1972, New York Times News Service SHELTON, Conn. Betty Smith, author of the widely-read best-selling novel, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," died in a convalescent home here during its work after a siege of pneumonia.

She was 75. "She had been seriously ill this fall," explained her daughter, Mrs. D. F. Pfeiffer of Hamden, Conn.

"She grew weaker and weaker and just never recovered." Miss Smith was first taken seriously ill in her home in Chapel Hill, N.C., in November. When she failed respond to treatment there, she was placed in the private home near her daughter's residence. "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn," achieved immediate critical and popular acclaim in 1943, and Miss Smith's subsequent three novels all possessed the same strong autobiographical overtones of precocity amid poverty and enduring optimism amid oppression. Even though the three other novels were chosen as special offerings by either the Book-of-the-Morath Club or the Literary Guild, they failed to measure up to the critical yardstick that had been applied to "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." This reception led Miss Smith to lament to her publisher, Harper and Row, that, "I wish I'd written my books in reverse." BORN IN BROOKLYN Miss Smith was born Elizabeth Keogh in Brooklyn on Dec. 15, 1896, of Irish-Austrian Immigrant parents.

Her formative years were spent in the slums of Brooklyn, ft By GEORGE KOLTANOWSKI International Chess Master PROBLEM By H. D0. Bernard, Erie White to play and mate in two moves. Solution below. KING'S INDIAN DEFENSE WHITE: Mar BLACK: Bobby Taimanov, USSR Flsctver.

USA 1. CM N-KB3 22. BxN PxB 2. P-QB4 P-KN3 23. R-Ql Q-K2 3.

N-QB3 B-N2 24. R-IC6 Q-B4ch 4. P-K4 P-Q3 25. K-Bl K.R-Q1 5. N-KB3 O-O 26.

RxRch RxR 6. B-K2 P-K4 27. Q-R4 Q-BSch 7. O-O N-B3 28. K-B2 B-KB1 8.

p-QS N-K2 29. P-QN4. B-KS 9. B-Q2 N-K1 30. R-K B-B3 10.

R-Bl P-KB4 31. QxB QxQ 11. Q-N3 P-N3 32. RxR Q-B3 T2. PxP PxP 33.

R-B8 Q-K2 13. N-KNS N-KB3 34. K-Bl K-R2 14. P-B4 P-KR3 35. N-Q4 B-N2 15.

PxP PxP 36. N-WS B-K4 1. P-BS N3xP 37. P-QR3 Q-Q2 17. NxN NxN 38.

R-QR8 P-B6 16. PxP RPxP 39. PxP BxP 19. R-B6 K-Rl 40. K-N2 Q-N2ch 2a N-B3 (a) B-N2 41.

KxB Q-Mch 21. R-N6 N-B5 Resigns (a) 20. Q-KR3! gives White a winning attack. Now he Is farced to retreat and Black's extra pawn is decisive. (a) 20.

Q-KR3! gives White a winning attack. Now he is forced to retreat and Black's extra pawn is decisive. FRENCH DEFENSE WHITE: Fischer BLACK: Larsen 1. P-K4 P-K3 22. Q-Q4 K-N3 P-Q4 23.

RxN QxR B-N5 24. QxB R-Ql N-K2 25. QxQMP BxNch Q-K6ch(a) P-QB4 26. K-Bl R-Q7 2. P-Q4 3.

N-QB3 4. P-K5 5. P-QR3 6. PxB 7. P-QR4 8.

N-B3 9. B-Q3 10. O-O 11. B-K2 12. R-Kl 13.

B-R3 14. NxN 16. Q-Q4 17. B-R5 18. P-B4 19.

P-B5 20. QxQPCh 21. B-B3 QN-B3 27. R-K3 B-Q2 28. B-B5 R-B7CTI Q-B2 29.

P-B5 30. P-B3 31. N-N3 32. PxP 33. NxN 34.

K-Nl KxR K-Rl BxR R-Nlch RxPch Q-Q7ch RxQ QxP6 K-B3 P-N4 QxP Q-QN7 K-K3 Q-R6 Q-B4 BxP N-N3 35. B-N6 K-B2 34. P-R5 KR-K1 37. B-Q8ch PxP 38. P-R6 K-B3 39.

B-N7 N-K4 40. R-Hl P-B6 41. B-N6 Resigns (a) Maybe 25 QxBP. (b) If 41 Q-R6; 42. P-R7; P-B7; 43.

R-Klch, K-Q3; 44. P-R8-Q; 45. RxQ, QxRch; 46. B-Nl etc. HINT FOR BEGINNERS An attack on the castled King with four pieces will usually force the game and permit one piece to be sacrificed in order to clear the way.

The solution to the problem above is: 1. N-N5. ject matter would show people using the local library facilities for research, education and recreation. In the second, entries are pictures taken at special programs at the central library or any of its 55 neighborhood branches, its three bookmobiles or aboard its "LibraryOo-Round." Young photographers-students from grade 1 through 12-have a separate classification and judging. And, also to be fair, officials permit non-residents of Queens to compete.

But there is a penalty. No entries are accepted by cail. Non-residents must come to Queens to take their pictures and they must also come to submit their entries to any library unit in Queens. That technique, in photo parlance, is called "double exposure." Usually it's an error, but nowadays it produces some offbeat results and, sometimes, a winner. Apt 413 where Miss Smith developed a love for literature as a child.

When she was 11, she had published two poems. But before she was 12, her father died," and young Elizabeth stopped her formal education at the eighth grade and went to work. She dreamed of the theater, of acting, and of writing plays. She fled the squalor of her Williamsburg home and went to Ann Arbor, where, despite her lack of a high school education was allowed to take some special courses at the University of Michigan. While there, at the age of 17, she married a young law student, George H.

E. Smith, the first of three husbands and the father of her two daughters. They were divorced just before the start of World War II. 7 WINS AWARD She received her undergraduate degree from the university, and stayed on as a graduate student. Although family income was skimpy, Miss Smith persisted in writing plays.

At a pace of two pages a day, she took five years to complete the play "Francie Nolan," for which she won the $1,500 Avery Hopwood Award. With the money, she went to Yale University Drama School. In 1938, Miss Smith and her two daughters headed for Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina, which had awarded her a playwright scholarship. For the next five years, she supported her two daughters by writing 70 one-act plays for amateur production and performing bit parts in plays at Chapel Hill. She jotted her impressions of Brooklyn down in a diary for a year and extracted portions of her award-winning play at Ann Arbor.

In early 1942 she submitted a manuscript to Harper and Row. CUT IN HALF Editors there cut the manuscript in half, and on Aug. 19, 1943, it was published as "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," the story of the poverty-stricken Nolan family. It sold 300,000 copies in six weeks, and 20th Century Fox paid $55,000 for the film rights. Elia Kazan made his directing debut in the movie of the same name that was released in 1945.

During the hectic "publicity campaign attending publication, Miss Smith met and married her second husband. trw- then Army Pvt. Joe Jones, after a three-day romance. To date, "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" has sold a total of 6-million copies. It has had 37 printings in hard cover and been published in 16 different languages.

Harper and Row has ranked it with "Ben Hur" and "Love Story" as one of its biggest pieces of fiction. Miss Smith and Jones were divorced at Reno, in December, 1951. Her third husband, Robert Finch, a writer, died a year and a half after their marriage in 1958. members enrich the community through photography. While Scarb rough feels that color prints attract more attention on hospital walls, some consideration might be given in other areas and other facilities to black and white displays in 11x14 and 16x20 size.

It would eliminate the cost and the time needed to make color prints and extend the use of prints previously entered in club or salon competitions. VARIOUS USES Public service displays might be arranged for libraries, nursing homes, youth and senior citizen centers, community and service clubs. The exhibits will reach varied audiences and perhaps ignite the spark needed which brings new camera club members. Some steps in this direction have been taken by the Sioux Falls Camera club because Tony Sikorski notes, in another letter, that the city librarian has agreed to display a black and white print on an easel in the lobby of their new library. The picture will be changed monthly.

And other libraries or civic centers might like to know about the photo contest category with documentary purpose now being run by my local Queens Borough public library system in New York City. Their slogan is, "Don't just take pictures; record history!" Contestants are advised to focus on Queens landmarks, historic buildings, and areas which may disappear or change or new developments which will be part of the borough's history by the year 2001. All entries must be documented with exact location and date when taken. The contest's practical nature is emphasized also with its- two other categories: Library-in-Action and Library News Events. In the first, sub- By IRVING DESFOR AP Newsfeotures Let's accentuate the positive in photography by reporting another way for camera fans to add an uplifting note in their communities.

The idea comes from one of my good reader-correspondents in South Dakota: J. W. Tony Sikorski, president of the Sioux Falls Camera Club. -The club has an arrange- ment with the Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls to provide it with a fresh group of 20 to 25 slides every six months. The program started about four years ago.

From the slides submitted, A. W. Scar-brough, personnel director of the hospital, selects about six from which 8x10 color prints are made. They are chosen on the basis of being or restful." The prints are displayed in the hospital lobby and waiting room to soothe somewhat the distraught people who are likely to be present. CREDITS GIVEN The hospital pays for the enlargements, done through local sources.

Each color print on display has a card with pic- ture title and the name of the photographer who made the slide. The original slides are returned, of course, and when color prints being replaced the display is changed, the color prints being replaced also are given to the photographers. Here, then, is a practical application of photography which is mutually beneficial: to the people who see the pictures; to the hospital which gets photo displays economically; to the photographers who get a larger appreciative audience and a color print; and to the camera club whose Alberts Photo Center UY TRADE RENT REPAIR PLAZA HOTEL Ufa Tun mot 913-377 22 The Times Sunday Magazine Lit if 4- I fcC iisfisSii If 1 Jill mu k. V-5" 1 i -WC- 111 ii If ivT3 AUTHOR DIES Betty Smith, author of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," who died Monday at the age of 75 in Shelton, is shown in 1945 during a visit to her childhood neighborhood in Brooklyn. She is looking at a tree growing out of the cement in front of a familiar but boarded-up building.

The novel, based on her girlhood in Brooklyn, made her famous and wealthy. (AP Wirephoto).