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50 Boston Sunday Globe May 18, 1971 Cranks out new books" in 9 clays Georges Simenon: amazing man of mystery 4). is. it since you' wrote a book?" I will! say, 'Two i "So he will prescribe another book," Simenon concludes, with obvious relish, as soon as I am started on an idea, all the pain goes away." not have -an idea to work on, ho is miserable. "After several weeks, I get grumpy and dissatisfied," he says. "I get neurotic.

I get twinges of lumbago or neuralgia. I may even see my doctor, and he will usually ask, 'How long of people, even a smell which reminds me of a memory," he says. "None of my books is inspired by recent impressions or experiences." And if it is any consolation to more plodding writers, when Simenon does mnwn'imuii -7V! i GEORGES SIMENON WITH HIS YOUNGEST I' I II II1' III rt. in f4 Wtefl Mf'MiMum CHESS Fischer tops By Harold Dondis IfiJSHEfiJ CASH PAID FOR DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS GEMS, ALSO SILVER, ANTIQUE JEWELRY, ANTIQUES. Fttt Approval WE'LL BRING A SELECTION OF GEMS TO YOUR HOME OR OFFICE WITHOUT OBLIGATION.

Phone for appointment 0 I cording to on immutable ritual." The ritual begins at 6 every morning and lasts until 9:30. By then, Simenon has one chapter finished and he is exhausted. "After writing for three hours, I have to have a bath and change my clothes," he says. "I am wringing with sweat." After exactly nine days of this, Simenon is through. He takes 10 days off, then spends one day take out' the adjectives." total working time is 20 days.

It takes the people who translate the result about 43 days. Early in his career, Simenon delivered a novel a week to his publishers. After a few years, he slowed down to six books a year and he has now tailed off to three or four. Much of his time now is spent negotiating contracts on his works. There have been 46 Maigret movies, and a Maigret series has run on Russian television.

Simenon handles all his negotiations, is a tough bargainer and mers out as many as 250 contracts per year. personal life is almost as spare and orderly as his hero's, but it is much more comfortable. Born in Belgium, he went to Paris as a young man, married at 22 and now has four children, between 34 and 11 years of age. He and his, wife, live near Lausanne in a large, all-white house which has all the simple luxuriousness' of a ritzy barracks. The decorations are sparse but there is a large indoor pool, a gym-.

nasium, a movie theater, a special office for meeting with editors and a room for two secretaries one for English correspondence and one for French and German. The Simenons' social life is very quiet. They see something of neighbors Charlie Chaplin and James and Simenon occasionally plays golf with Yul Brynner. But they never go to parties and Simenon is in bed by 10 each night. He hasn't seen more than a dozen of the Maigret movies, never rereads his own books and has even sworn off contemporary writers of fiction, for fear of being influenced by them.

Simenon walks between six and nine miles a day, and the ideas for his books are born on these walks. "'They are triggered by the oddest things a memory a recollection of a bunch ieauty that time can never touch Schoolboy Quizardry. White to move and win. Answer below. Under the Arpad Elo in -iff? new rating Elo's calculation of 30 top players (not including Morphy) in other eras shows only Botvinnick, Capablanca and Lasker going over 2700, Botvinnik having reached, at his peak, in 1945, the highest rating, about 2730-35.

Fischer, with 2740, is the highest ever rated, but comparisons of this sort are very dangerous. It is a very legitimate question whether the new rating system will force a change in the system of selecting the World's Champion. The rating system will make it obvious that too many weak players are seeded into the Interzonals. With match play, instead of round robins, Russia could be treated much more fairly and still not gang up on non-Russian candidates. The 1971 state high school team title, the Hur-vitz Cup, was won by Brookline in a match with Springfield Classical in Worcester.

The match, though stained with conflict, again showed that Brookline's domination of high school chess will hot be broken. In Worcester action, Clark University, led by experts Lane and Savage, won the division of the Worcester Met League. The title went to the Jewish Community Center. The Worcester County Speed Championship on May 9 was won by Clark Expert, David Lane, 10-1 in a round robin. The Worcester County Closed, held the week be i -1 is yours forever in diamonds and other precious jewels Think of it as your inherent right to enjoy beauty that is timeless boundless.

So it is only natural that fou'll wont to choose this precious possession from lorrter's famous for one of New England's most distinguished and largest collections of diamonds and other precious gems, as well as resplendent estate pieces and cherished antiques all value-priced to let you too, afford the beauty that time can never touch! ternational rating system, here are the top 22 players of the world. Fischer 2740 Spassky 2690 Korchnoi 2660 Larsen 2660 Petrosian 2640 Botvinnik 2630 Geller 2630 Polugaevski 2630 Portisch 2630 Smyslov 2620 Stein 2620 Taimonov 2600 Tal 2610 Hort 2600 Gligoric 2600 Keres 2600 Bronstein 2590 Hubner 2590 Gipslis 2580 Krogius 2580 Tukmakov 2580 Uhlmann 2580 Top Americans include Reshevsky, 2560; Benko and Evans, 2550; Byrne and W. Lombardy, 2520; W. Browne, 2510. nr By Edward Bchr Newsweek Feature Service LAUSANNE, Switzerland if Georges Simenon were a character in one of his own mysteries, a rival author would probably do him in out of envy.

Simenon is easily the most prolific major writer in the world. The creator of the famouse Inspector Maigret cranks out a book in just nine days, working only three and a half hours per day. He is also immensely popular. Simenon now ranks third among the best-selling; writers of the behind Lenin and Mao Tse-tung. Next to Lenin, he is the second most widely translated, having recently passed the Bible.

All this is hard enough on mortal writers who labor over each adjective, but the worst of it is that Simenon, writing at this fantastic clip, is also very good. His books are gobbled up by both the masses and literary lions, including Jean Cocteau and C. P. Snow. Andre Gide, in fact, once called him the best French novelist alive.

The possessor of this unlikely combination of talents is now 67, and since he began, dashing off books back in 1923, he has produced some 480 of them. The most famous are his 75 Inspector Maigret and, predictably a new one has just been published in the US: "'Maigret and the Wine Merchant," which is about the murder of a wealthy, cruel and richly detested wine-merchant in Paris. Like, their detective hero, Simenon books are deceptively simple. A kind of Everyman, Maigret Phlods methodically through his criminal puzzles philosophize," he --keeps telling 'seldom makes dazzling deductions', rarely gets into fights and never cuts up with the ladies. Simenon approaches his speed-writing in a fury of concentration.

He maintains two electric typewriters in case one breaks down. Before he starts a book, he insists that each member of his family be gone over by a doctor, to make sure there will be no distracting illnesses. "There must be no interruptions," he says; "If I break the process for more than a day, the thread is broken and I will never finish. I'm a creature of habit. I have to work ac DEBBIE SERINO, rifle, Patty Roy, drum major, Mayflower contest slated for Victory Field, Water-town, next Sunday at 1 p.m.

Lynn's Manning Bowl will be the scene, May 29, of the Heart Fund Invitational The N.Y. Skyliners, Long Island Sunriser, Rochester Crusaders, Connecticut Yankees and Everett Renegades comprise the senior segment of the program. Invited juniors include the Boston Crusaders, 27th Lancers, Beverly Cardinals, N.Y. Knickerbockers, St. Rita's Brassmen of Brooklyn, and OLPH Ridgemen of New York.

Reserved seat information is available from the invitational committee 321 Revere st, Revere 02151. All proceeds are earmarked for the Greater Boston Heart Fund. The show opens at 7:30 p.m. St. Kevin reunion will be 'i SON, PIERRE system fore, attracted only 12 players.

Eugene Shapiro of Worcester defended his title winning ZV2-Y2. From the 1971 National High School Championship comes a marvelous performance by a North Carolina schoolboy, rated 1888, who hangs one on his seeded (2040) opponent with a blizzard of combinations in the center of the board. SICILIAN DEFENSE Dolinger White 1 P-K4 2 N-KB3 3P-Q4 4NxP 5 N-QB3 6 B-No 7 P-B4 8B-B4 9 Q-B3 10 0-0-0 11 B-N3 12 P-B5 13 RxN 14 K-Nl Jacklyn Black P-QB4I P-QJI N-KB3I P-QR3 Dolinger Jacklyn White Black 15 P-K5(a) PxKP 16RxB CxRfb) 17PxP PxP 18 BxN BxB 19 R-Ql Q-B3(c) P-K3 B-K2! B-02i N-B3 R-QB1I Q-B21 20N-K4(a R-QI 21 kxh cn K-K2 PxB K-Kl 22 B-Q5 e) 23 NxP ch 24 Q-R5 ch Q-N3 (f 25 QxP ch K-Q2 26 N-K7 ch K-Kl NxN: P-N4I P-QR4' 27 NxQ ch Resigns a The attack White conjures out of this speculative thrust borders on the supernatural. (bl The alternative 16. NxR exposes the Black monarch fasier after 17 PxP PxP.

18 BxB KxB. 19 Q-N4 etc. (c White's procedure is less clear after 1 9 K2 Now the threat or, 21 R-Q8 prevents Black from castling. (e) Sheer wizardry! Oi course not 22 QxQ RxR mate. (f) 24 P-N3, 23 0xKPch K-Q2, 28 N-N6 and 25 K-B2.

26 R-Bl ch K-Nl. 27 N-K7 are beautiful mates. Annotations by J.A.C. ANSWER TO PROBLEM: White's 24th move and the finish of today's game. CHESS CALENDAR May 22-23 Second Boyl-ston Open at Boston, S.

Frymer, 1251 Commonwealth Allston, Mass. 02134. May 29-30 New England team championship at Worcester YMCA, '766 Main Worcester, Mass. Four-man teams with one alternate. Delaware challenger faded -as the season progressed, losing the impetus and edge it had gained in its May triumph.

The speed with which a routine is developed and then polished to perfection often determines the degree of success a unit can anticipate in an early Spring meeting of this type. Some corps heads prefer to take their charges along slowly and are willing to use the show as a sounding board of judging criticism. After flaws have been pointed out in music and marching, instructors retreat to native bailiwicks to revamp these weak portions, with an eye on more lucrative opportunities in July and August. Reports on Bridgeport, entries have been too skimpy to draw a bead on those likely to finish in the top three. Results, then, will be analyzed more studiously to afford one a solid basis on which to formulate future ratings.

Facing the local trio are Blessed Sacrament, Blue Rock, Garfield Cadets, Mil-ford Shoreliners, N.Y. Warriors, L.L Kingsmen and St. Andrew's Bridge-men. Starting time is 7:30 p.m. with next Sunday at 2 if a rain date is needed.

The Watertown Cadets raise the curtain on local circuit competition with a 1 TF DRUM CORPS NOTES wings at Bridgeport sir Kb sit Vt Stardom in By Herb Cole The first step to national stardom will be taken Saturday night by a trio of Metropolitan Boston Class-A hopefuls. A caravan of followers is expected to trail buses carrying the 27th Lancers, Boston Crusaders and Pembroke Imperials to the JFK Stadium in Bridgeport, Conn. What could happen in this field season opener is speculative, but whoever wins definitely will gain a CUT-UPS head start up the East Coast ladder of junior corps supremacy. Psychologically, it even could serve as a springboard for national titular honors. But there's still a bugaboo lurking in the shadows, in that some units peak much earlier than others as evidenced by the victory scored in the same stadium last year by the Blue Rock Cadets.

To the chagrin and disappointment of management and instructors, this By Bennett Morrill 'lit I Mil 1 few) Blue 1 Angels, Denvers, and Sir Thomas More, Brain tree. held Friday evening at the W. G. Walsh Post, 10 Dunbar Several important matters are on the agenda of the EMass circuit general, body meeting, tomorrow night in Immaculate Conception School Hall, Winchester. New color guard rule proposals will be presented with 1971 field competition regulations to be distributed.

Eastern Mass. Memorial Scholarship Fund applications must be submitted by unit representatives. Disposition will be made of the year-long suspension of a member unit. This is the last general meeting (8 p.m.) prior to the field season, with the executive board to function in behalf of the organization during the summer. ElSte "CUT! AH right, print if i i i -1 A i ti i.