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Dr. Fine, who held an in- ternational chess champion- ship, rated, next to Bobby Fischer, as the outstanding American chess expert of :•••••••••••••••••••••••••: THE ALL-NEW • • • • • • • • • • • ON • • SOUTHFIELD and • • 121/2 MILE ROAD • 355-0435 • • Invites You • • • • • • • • • • To Try Our Daily Family Specials • OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK • • • • •# 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. • • • Breakfast • Dinner • • • Businessmen's Luncheons • Sandwiches • • SUNDAYS • • STYLE BREAKFAST • • FAMILY (Heaps of Food on the Table For All To Dig In and Enjoy!) • • • $1 • 65 • per person •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • to list the best plays which this book features. Bobby Fischer is portrayed by Dr. Fine as an "American Folk Hero." The rise to fame of this champ receives interesting description in a book that is almost a hero- worshiping of the noted con- queror of the world title. Dr. Fine also lists the other great plays, the champs, including Wilhelm Steinitz (1866-1894), Emanuel Lasker (1894-1921), Mikhail Botvinik (1961-1963), Boris Spassky (1969-1972), and now Fischer. Sammy Reshevsky plays a role in Dr. Fine's historical record about chess players. He describes a match be- tween Bobby Fischer and Reshevsky, when Bobby was unable to beat Reshevsky who was then, as Dr. Fine states, "the dominant figure in American chess after my retirement." At this point, Dr. Fine re- lates: "In my second game with Reshevsky in Pasadena in 1932, we adjourned in a po- sition which was a clear win for me. The adjourned time fell on a Jewish holiday and was therefore postponed, over my objection. For the second adjournment the game was rearranged for an early time; which I failed to keep. This time I was for- feited, in spite of my objec- tions. The tournament direc- tor, a Dr. Griffith, took me into the men's room and consoled me with a medi- cinal shot of Scotch (those were still the days of Pro- hibition). I was then 17 years old, about the same age as Bobby in his match with Reshevsky." Dr. Fine mentions Bobby's being half Jewish. Then he states: "In the late '60s he suddenly experienced a re- ligious conversion, joining a sect known as the Worldwide Church of God. This sect, founded in Oregon 40 years ago, is a blend of Old Testa- ment Judaism and funda- mental New Testament Ad- ventism. It imposes Hebrew dietary and Sabbath pro- scriptions and preaches the imminent return of Jesus ALBAN'S VISIT OUR GOURMET SHOP RESTAURANT • Complete Lunches • Complete Dinners • Carryout Menu • Variety of Salads • Sandwich Specials Try Our Famous Box Lunches Catering in Your Home or Office 188 N. HUNTER (Woodward) MI 6-6553 CORNER 15 MILE MICHIGAN'S LARGEST PACKAGE LIQUOR AND WINE SELECTION Open Mon. thru Thurs. till 9, Fri. Sat. till 11, Sun. till 9 w We carry IIK NINA Pure Beef Products By BEN GALLOB (Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.) BOBBY FIS CHER Christ to set up a super- organized world government. It is said that he lives up faithfully to the rules of his church, and that he con- tributes 20 per cent of his income to it." An informative chaper in the book deals with Boris Spassky, whose life story and chess career are _fully related. Of the nearly 300 pages in the book, some 180 are de- voted to games, with moves fully illustrated. This gives the Fine volume the total significance that can be at- tached to a volume about chess and chess players. Iran Is Seeking Games; Hopes to Beat USSR Neither bagel nor "real Jewish rye" are really Jew- ish foods, contrary to wide- spread convictions of Jews and non-Jews alike, accord- ing to an expert on Jewish cooking, who contends there are no truly Jewish foods, but rather centuries-old Jew- ish uses of foods taken from other cultures. In fact, even the traditional halla may not be a Jewish food, says Mrs. Shonie B. Levi, wife of Rabbi S. Ger- shon Levi of Jamaica, N. Y. She reported on the matter hi "Keeping Posted," pub- lished by the Union of Amer- ican Hebrew Congregations. The bagel, she asserted, "is really a Johnny-come- lately to the Jewish scene. Its association with Jews is largely an American phen- omenon," for a Russian- Polish delica introduced to North America by Jews from Eastern Europe. The Jewish rye bread "originated in cer- tain northern climes where rye is the native grain." Jews who settled in this country "brought along an acquired taste for it," Mrs. Levi declared. Raising the question as to whether halla was "an or- iginal or an imitation," Mrs. (Copyright 1973, JTA, Inc.) Less than a month after Levi commented that "may- my Tel Aviv based interview be both go back to a com- with Iran's Richard Avory mon source." She added that concerning his country ap- "it really doesn't matter. plying for the 1980 Olympics, What counts is the use" to a story datelined Tehran which such foods are put by broke internationally announ- Jews and what really mat- cing that Iran would seek ters "is the way we Jews the games. This is a step in have converted certain the right direction and in dishes into celebrations of _ line with what Avory, Is our own holidays." rael's Chaim Glovinsky and She cited latkes for Ha- I discussed a few weeks ago. nuka, hamantaschen for However, there is much Purim, blintzes for Shavuot, work yet to be done and the matza balls for the Passover odds as mentioned here be- Seder. gefilte fish and simi- fore are still 1,000-1 against lar food uses. On that Russia losing out. premise, she declared, "no Let's not lose sight of the one can deny that our halla fact that only 74 voters will belongs to the Jewish Sab- determine the site of the 1980 bath, regardless of who orig- games. Remember — the inated the recipe." U.S. merely has two 'votes She stressed that even and nobody on the American such foods are not universal Olympic team can dictate to all Jews but "only to how our two International those originating in Eastern Olympic Committee delegates Europe. There is no one Jew- should vote. Good old Avery ish culinary tradition but Brundage, who voted in quite a few." She listed favor of the games going to among the varieties Hun- Berlin in 1936, is still one of garian, Polis h, Russian, the American IOC dele- Czech and Lithuanian. gates. Brundage isn't what The Hebrew word halla, one might call a philo-Semite nor a friend of Israel. He's she said, meant originally an old buzzard, well past simply a loaf and "not even 80; and should have been necessarily of bread." She dropped from all Olympic cited a reference in Leviticu activity upon retiring as to both a loaf of matzo and chairman of the IOC a few of oiled bread. Halla "has come to signify the special months ago. It remains to be seen how delicious white bread used much backing Iran can en- on the Sabbath" and in Yid- roll in the next few months. dish, "and in English, this has become its only mean- Russia, anxious for the ing," games, will be prodding all She reported that she had of the Iron Curtain countries and their satellites around seen, at a Bar Mitzva recep- the world. Israel, without a tion, one of the "most un- vote, is- impotent and many usual and exquisite hallot" other friendly nations, who in her experience, shaped would like to see the games like a sheaf of wheat. She out of Russia, are without later learned that a Jewish bakery in New York had voting power. The IOC has always acquired a duplicate of the been a "you scratch my original mold and produced back and I'll scratch yours" halla in that shape for fraternity so that budging "festive religious occasions." the committee off its course About 60,000,000 persons in is going to take a lot of the world are threatened by doing. yaws, a crippling disease. Fiction or fable allures to For 21/2 cents, UNICEF pro- vides the penicillin to cure a instruction. —Benjamin Franklin child of yaws. By HASKELL COHEN