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II DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, November 14. '71 19-A i-u-'V -jt i i i V' V- -J r- i Bob Talbert's Detroit 1 II. Ill ft JJ rn A A lS fTy a problem for singers and he admits he's not V5 "2r v3 A much of a song-writer himself: "I wrote one v- I fjf ll called 'Less of Me' and recorded it in 1965, A but I haven't written much don't I have the patience. Most of the good songs '1" A8 II come out the writers who have lived their rf songs. Marrying a great lyric to a great 'V I I vw I Ilk "Nfc.

4 1 Bobby Fischer, who uses a chessboard as springboard to success Ed Ella Fischer Fear A nd Why The Russians Have II LAS VEGAS Ed Sullivan is alive and well and living at the Riviera. This is not graffiti scrawled on a wall, a la C. Fields is alive and drunk in Philadelphia." Sullivan, the long-time TV variety show host and New York News columnist, is spending a month's vacation here to revisit all his "discoveries," and practically every entertainer on the fabled Strip is an Ed Sullivan discovery. Comedian Shecky Greene laid a great line on Sullivan, who was a constant Greene ringsider: "Wouldn't you know it. Ed Sullivan finally discovers me the year he loses his TV show" Jt broke Sullivan as do all comics' barbs about his expressionless, "embalmed" look and the impressionists' imitations of him.

"Will Jordon does me best," Sullivan says, "better, even, than I do me." Sullivan is very excited about the eight specials he has contracted to do for CBS-TV. He particularly likes the casting in the first, "Funny Papers," a look at comic strips and their characters, portrayed by live stars. Sullivan beams, "We have Raquel Welch playing Little Orphan Annie." Sullivan was on-hand for Totie Fields' (one of his discoveries) brilliant opening at the Riviera and was deeply impressed with Detroit-based singer Jimmy Randolph, on the bil with Totie. "That's the best baritone voice I've heard in years," Sullivan told Randolph's pround manager, Detroiter Albert Fill, and indicated he felt Randolph would be a perfect "discovery" to do a medley of great baritones' hits in a future Sullivan special. This should also delight the jetload of De-troiters who junketed to Vegas for Randolph's Riviera opening.

ENTERTAINERS in the Strip Casinos love nothing better than disrupting each other's performance. Cobra-tongued Don Ric-kles was zinging it to country entertainer Glen Campbell at the International, saying Campbell was busy shoveling up a load of manure that tipped over in front of his hotel. Campbell recruited Totie Fields for a "manure-hunting trip." They bought a wheelbarrow full, gift-wrapped it and Totie pushed it stage in the middle of Rickles' act. As Rickles' finished unwrapping it, Totie tipped it over and exited with this line, "Eat it in good health." Now she shudders every night, wondering when and how Rickles will strike. Campbell packs 'em in with superb guitar-playing, singing medleys of his hits, and unbelievably bad cornpone humor I'm golfing, I wear two pairs of pants, case I get a hole in Finding the "new" right song, he says, is today's biggest melody is the secret to writing standards.

Carole King is definitely the queen of song- writers right now. And there's a bunch of good men like Sonny Curtis, Dave Gates, the Beatles and Jimmy Webb. My problem is I usually find songs after the writer commits them to another singer. Most of the songs 'written for me' don't work because 99 times out of 100, the song makes the singer, not the reverse" Campbell's pal, Jimmy Dean at the Landmark, agrees completely and recalls his "Bfg John," his three-million-seller: "Finding another 'Big at Las Vegas odds, would be a million to one shot" IT NEVER ceases to amaze me that the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald is always very, very nervous before every performance. And it's even more so here where she's worshipped nightly by fans at the Flamingo.

She explains her nervousness beautifully: "I'm always nervous because my audiences never, are. I get nervous knowing they expect so much and what if I can't give them everything they hope for?" She has never and never will fail to give her audiences everything they ever wanted to hear from Ella Fitzgerald and weren't afraid to ask for At the Caesars Palace, Harry Belafonte also gives audiences one of the finest nightclub acts they could hope for, just as Sammy Davis Jr. is doing at the Sands. Belafonte and Davis kid each other in their acts. Since Davis 'no longer drinks (on doctor's orders) Belafonte claims he's staying drunk on what Sam sends over 'cause he still can't break the habit of ordering drinks.

As a boy of 12 he would walk into a chess club with an American chess magazine stuck in one pocket, a Russian one in another, an English one in his hand. Chess magazines and books constituted his only There is no room for girls, the social graces, friendships," the amenities of life. Bobby has very few friends. Bobby does not apologize for his monomania. "Chess," he says, "demands total concen-.

tration. Yeah, and love for the game. The Russians have produced great players but not natural talents because they never had to struggle." In Russia chess players are subsidized by the state. To Bobby the game itself is more important than the money he makes from it, although like all artists he is interested in money. But.

first comes The -Game. "I've never needed much money," he says. "I've made a living at chess, but not a good living." Last year Bobby hit the big time. His income is probably about $20,000. There could be big money coming Bobby's way if he becomes the world's champion.

Maurice Kasper, the philanthropist of chess, told Bobby that he would invest in stocks and bonds for him. "What's the difference between a stock and a bond?" Bobby wanted to know. WHAT MAKES Bobby Fischer so powerful a player? Dedication is part, but there is much more. Chess demands something more than memory and technique memory for the myriad openings that abound in master play; technique for the ability to handle a routine situation in a clear-cut manner. are allowed to help a player analyze adjourned positions.

Bobby thought that the sight of Taimanov and his seconds was the funniest thing he had ever seen. The three would in a circle, each with a pocket set, six hands flying, pocket -sets waving in the air, and a confused look, on Taimanov's face. Just before resuming play in one adjourned position, the seconds were giving Taimanov last-minute advice. When poor Taimanov entered the playing room and sat down to confront Bobby, he wa? so rattled, that on the sixth move he left a rook en prise, even as you and and immediately resigned. ANOTHER THING that provokes Fischer fear in hisoppo-.

nents is Bob's avoidance of time trouble. In tournament-chess a player has to make 40 moves in two and a half hours. If the flag on his clock falls before the required 40 moves, he loses by forfeit. The last-half hour of any tournament session i a nerve-racking scramble, with players all -over the room trying to beat the clock. Amidst the pandemoniurn there is certain to be one calm player Bobby Fischer, who still has plenty of time left on his clock.

Chess is a young man's game. Many players actually go into training a month before. Before his match with Petrosian, Bobby was at Gros-, singer's, playing tennis, swimming and getting plenty of fresh air. Thanks to Bobby, people are beginning to regard chess for what it is a rigorously intel- lectual application of pura logic backed by a creative impulse 'rather than a game-played by a lot of lovable, eld- erly eccentrics. There is a mysterious ingredient that all great chess players have, along with great composers, mathematicians and scientists.

It is creative, the ability to arrive at the inevitable in quantum jumps of the imagination; the ability to express oneself uniquely, the ability to create a structure that no other mind has been capable of creating. Anybody can push chess pieces around. It needs the mind of a Capablanca, an Alekhine, a Fischer to find a line of play that stands apart, unique, perfect, an affirmation of the creative process. "Ideas," says Fischer. "I never did memorize Which is to be regarded as something of an understatement, for Bobby never forgets an opening, an analysis, or a game he has played.

A grandmaster, Robert Byrne, talks about Bobby with rueful respect, for Byrne was on the wrong end of two of Bobby's great games. Bynne believes that there is a lot of "idiot nonsense" written about Bobby. "BOBBY'S APPROACH always is entirely rational. Larsen, for instance, is a romantic who looks for an unusual move. Bobby will never do that.

He may make the unexpected move but never the unusual or unharmonious one. He wins a classic theme over and over again the superior bishop versus the inferior knight. Bobby scares them. I call it I think that's what happened to Tai-manov. He was terrified." Byrne was referring to the candidates' match last May in Vancouver.

Bobby went there alone. Taimanov was accompanied by two seconds, both grandmasters. This is permitted by IFC rules. Seconds first place at the time. Last December he ran amok at the Interzonal at Palma de Mallorca, ending with a spurt of seven winning games which started him on his series of individual matches toward the world's championship.

He pulverized Mark Taima-nov of Russia, 6 to 0. He then shut out Bent Larsen of Denmark, 6 to 0, and Larsen was thought to the strongest player in the West. He won the semifinal match for the world championship with the Soviet Union's Tigran Petrosian last month, with 19 consecutive victories in grandmaster play. No chess player in history could show anything like this. Next spring Bobby will play Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the championship.

But the match will not be held in Russia. Neutral territory will have to be found, and the International Federation of Chess (IFC) agrees. Bobby has a thing about the Russians. In 1962 he accused them of collusion, claiming that they were prearranging drawn games, thus giving Russian tournament leaders easy half points. (A win is a full point, a draw a half point.) The Russians called Bobby a sore loser, a spoilsport, a loudmouth, a conceited braggart, and nowhere near as good a player as he claimed he was.

ONE THING in the Russian dispatch was accurate Bobby's lack of interest in anything but chess. Almost from the beginning Bobby's life had only one 'meaning, that was to play chess with more precision than anybody else. He dropped everything to concentrate on chess. He left high school in his junior year because, "the stuff they teach you in school I can't use one way or the other." BY HAROLD C. SCHONBERG 1 971 New York Times Newt Service Robert J.

Fischer, the scourge of international chess, the terror of four continents, the man with the computer mind, the flawless intellect of chess, the machine, the crusher of egos is a young giant of a man going on 29, who acts and talks like an adolescent and has the appetite of a growing boy (recent breakfast: extra large orange juice, four eggs sunnyside, toasted bagels, melon, milk, fruit salad). He is growing famous enough to be invited to appear on TV talk shows, the subject of numerous in-depth interviews, and most likely will be the next chess champion of the world. Single-handed, he has made the ancient game of chess glamorous enough to have the man in the street talking about it. Few will contest his rank as the greatest living chess player. Some authorities soberly rank him as the greatest who ever lived.

United States champion at 14, grandmaster at 15 the youngest grandmaster in the history of the game he has for the last 15 years been compiling an incredible record. (A grandmaster is as high as a chess player can get. There are about 75 in the world. Of that number, 33 are Russians and 10, not all of them active, are Americans.) CERTAINLY, HE HAS been all but-invincible recently. In March, 1970, he licked ex-world champion Tigran Petro-sian by a score of 3 to 1 in a four-game match.

He had not played chess at that time for more than a year; his last appearance had been in the Interzonal Tournament in Tunisia, which he left halfway through even though he was in Nov. 2(l 1938 JERICHO FALLS TO BRITISH AS ARAB REBELS FLEE MOTHER CABRINI FIRST AMERICAN BEATIFIED BY VATICAN BERLIN JEWS LEVIED $400 MILLION FOR MURDER OF VOM RATH BY POLISH JEW GIANT CHOCOLATE SUNDAES 10c APIECE G.M. LAUNCHES EMPLOYEE. INCOME SECURITY FOR 1939 U.S. ENVOY CALLED HOME AS ATTACKS AGAINST GERMAN JEWS INCREASE DANIEL DODGE'S WIDOW ASKS COURT FOR $33,000 MONTHLY FROM ESTATE ROSSEVELT ASSAILS REICH, ADVOCATES ARMING OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE INSULIN NEW TREATMENT FOR DELIRIUM TREMENS, MENTAL DISORDERS METALPINS, SCREWS, BRACES REPLACE PLASTER CASTS FOR BROKEN BONES LOS ANGELES WOMAN JAILED AFTER LOSING COURT BATTLE TO WEAR SLACKS ON WITNESS STAND Jews Will Suffer, Germany Warns names faces NOVEMBER 15, 1938 Nazi newspapers, led by the organ of Adolf Hitler's storm troopers, warned today that German Jews would suffer further penalties if anti-Nazi agitation in the United States continued.

The controlled Nazi press loosed attacks on "the purposeful politicians of Washington" as United States Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson prepared to leave for home Wednesday night to report to President Roosevelt on Germany's new wave of measures against the Jews. Economics Minster Walther Funk announced tonight that $800,000,000 of Jewish wealth, or nearly one-third of the holdings of all German Jews, had been taken from them. The nation's 700,000 Jews, he said, will be completely obliterated from the business world. "THE JEWS will receive German bonds as indemnity, while the Germans will regain their property," Funk said in an address to a Nazi meeting.

"All necessary measures will be taken to maintain the value of the stocks and merchandise, which will be placed at the disposition of the population in a useful and reasonable fashion." German authorities informed the American Consulate that if the United States would give visas to Jews under arrest, the Jews would be released from prisons and concentration camps and permitted to leave the Reich. The Nazi assurance was believed to apply only to those Jews whose visa applications are in order. It was believed that 50,000 Jews had been arrested throughout greater Germany in the last few days, nearly 8,000 of them in Berlin, and that many of the prisoners were influential and wealthy Jews held as hostages; "We shall use Jewish hostages systematically, no matter how shocking some people may find it," the newspaper Das Schwarze Korps, official organ of the storm troopers, announced: Girl Shapes Up Dockworkers Whatever Happened to Alan Young? "When Scotsmen put out $2 for entertainment, it's got to be good, or there's trouble." By 19, he was writing and starring in his own national network radio program for to next Tuesday's Elvis Pres- ley concert. "I'm a real fan of his," she said. "He's the greatest." A local radio station owner, heard of the wish and located the singer.

Elvis arranged to have Lucy, a resident of a nursing home, as his special guest at the concert and-hel! apogized for sending hern 100th birthday greeting one--f day late. Portrait a Problem A German artist has finj ished a portrait of Pope Paul VI a.rid intends to present it him at Christmas. But a Vati- can spokesman has expressed uncertainty about whether the portrait would ever hang the Vatican. The spokesman, Frederico Allesandrini, criticzed the art-ist, Ernst Guenter Hansing, 42, a Lutheran, for allowing pho- tos of the portrait to appear inTT some magazines. The painting is an oil on wood.

The background is a rich midnight blue, in the center is a three-quarters head of the Pope looking. worried. The Pope's aquiline nose is accentuated, the eyes are extra large and the lips 'curled downward. i A Pentagon spokesman said the Army has listed Scott Udall as a deserter since Dec. .1, 1969.

Udall, secretary of the interior in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, is now a partner in an environmental consulting firm here. Udall said Scott had been drafted in August, 1369. When Scott decided to leave the Army and the United States, Udall said he was not consulted.

"He made his decision and went," Udall said. "When I could see that he was very serious about it and it was a matter of conscience with him, we supported him fully." The story was revealed in a Phoenix, Ariz, newspaper. Old Presley Fan "Happy Birthday" said the telegram from Lucy Hollen-sfcein. "I'll bet" it's been a great 100 years." The first century was great for Lucy, but the birthday greeting signed by Elvis Presley was even better. Lucy had told a Salt Lake City reporter all she wanted for her birthday was a ticket But not Mrs.

Talcott, who has lived at the Roosevelt for 25 years. Mrs. Talcott said she had been asked to move, but not exactly ordered to. '-'I haven't made up my mind yet," she said. "They don't seem to be bad neighbors," she added.

Hedy Must Pay A former boyfriend of actress Hedy Lamarr was awarded a $15,000 false-arrest judgment Friday for having spent a night in jail upon her accusation that he attempted rape at gunpoint. Donald R. BIyth, 43, a school equipment technician who said he dated the actress for four months in 1967, was awarded $10,000 punitive damages and $5,000 general damages. The incident occurred Aug. 21, 1967, but the 56-year-old Miss Lamarr dropped the charges the day following 1 's arrest, saying "it would be detrimental to my health" to press the, case.

Blyth was released after much publicity. Miss Lamarr originally charged that Blyth made his way into her West Los Angeles home and forced his attentions on her. Blyth denied the Things on the Milwaukee docks just aren't the same anymore. "There i nobody, calling each other any of those dirty old names," says longshoreman William Burke. "And the guys aren't even taking a break to go to the can." The reason for the sudden change is Anne Holzhauer, 21, who began work Thursday.

The first assignment given the 5-foot-9, 120-pounder, was loading 60 and 100 pound boxes of frozen meat in the hold of a Yugoslavian freighter. Hotel Holdout In an otherwise solidly Communist Chinese enclave on the 14th floor of a Manhattan hotel there remained an oasis of American stick-to-it-iveness a two-room suite occupied by small, gray-haired Carolyn Talcott. When the" 44-member Red Chinese delegation to the United Nations arrived in New York Thursday, they thought they would be occupying all 72 rooms of the Roosevelt Hotel's 14th floor. So did hotel officials, as they went about the task of moving businessmen and other guests off the floor. tiiiiiift Hedy Lamarr 4 jg3fa sippifii CBC.

But in 1945, NBC scooped him up as a summer replacement for the Eddie Cantor Show and he was well on his way to establishing himself south of the Canadian border. His "Alan Young Show" was one of the first live TV comedy reviews to originate from Hollywood. And the two-time award winner was followed by a host of motion picture roles. In 1959 after a return trip to his native England (he's ac-. tually Scottish), he began the "Mr.

Ed" series which ran for six strong years. Today he has retired from his entertainment career and begun a rather unusual second career. He is now the manager of the Department of Film and Broadcasting for the Chrisitan Science Church, fulfilling a promise he made to himself during his teens. "Mr. Belvedere Goes to College" is not a television commercial for home remodeling.

It's a movie only one of a long string of movies starring the man with perhaps the world's greatest animal rapport: Alan Young of the "Mr. Ed" fame. Before Young brought his horse and himself, in the form of Wilbur Post, into American living rooms, he had covered a diversified terrain in the entertainment field. BORN in England, his parents fostered their own amateur theatrical ambitions (his father was a tap dancing shipbuilder). Young began his own career at the age of six after moving to Canada.

At 13, he managed to squeeze $2 per seat out of a Scottish Club audience for one of his performances. Reflects Young, charge, saying the actress had been peeved at the time because he had brought some girls to meet her. Udall's Son Deserted Former Secretary of Interior Stewart L. lldall said Friday his son Scott, 22, deserted from the U.S. Army two years ago and has been living in Canada.

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