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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1954
Page
5
A report claims world chess champion Michail Botvinnik is absent from a U S visit to Russia’s team. The item notes the phrasing may imply purge but suggests checkmated by events. The fragment hints at geopolitical tremors and oddities in sport and tech with scattered references.
G. M. Cohan was known as a practical joker. He and Willie Collier staged a mock two handed card cut for a $1900 a throw to tease Louis Mann. Mann’s eyes widened as Collier’s fake profits rose to three hundred thousand dollars while Cohan’s theaters and life policies loomed. The prank ended when Collier offered to cut Mann and Cohan out of three for Sam Harris.
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