A Mysterious Assault

December 14, 1947
Atwater Village

When Mrs. Evelyn Schott got off the street car near her home at 3224 Garden Ave., she stepped unknowingly into a trap. For lurking one block from home’s safety was a man with evil intent. He sprung upon Evelyn from behind a bush and commenced beating her head. She screamed, neighbors poured onto their lawns, and her assailant jumped into a car and split. Evelyn was patched up at Pasadena Ave. Emergency Hospital, and won’t, we wager, be walking home alone after dark again anytime soon.

Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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  1. It’s hard to reduce so many important stories to three-bullet items … like blood flowing in the streets of Jerusalem and Jaffa … Earl E. Kynette trying to get out of a 20-year prison sentence for the Harry Raymond bombing … Lewis M. Terman of Stanford examining what becomes of gifted children as they reach adulthood (no, they’re not all dysfunctional misfits, he says, but rather the elite).

    But I’ve been trying to figure out a way to look at chess in 1947….

    MAROCZY FUND
    Herman Steiner, author of The Times chess column, interrupted his report of matches and strategies to solicit help for an aging master of the game, Geza Maroczy. Throughout the fall, The Times had run ads for canned food that people could ship to their friends and loved ones overseas who were struggling to rebuild Europe, just as President Truman had asked Americans to restrict their diets to send meat and grain abroad.

    But this was a personal plea. “Our friends in Europe reveal that Grand Master Geza Maroczy is ill again and in dire need of food and medication. Your editor urges the chess-loving public again to help this grand old master, who has contributed so much to chess in his long and colorful career. He is nearly 80 years old. All contributions will be acknowledged through the column…. Mr. Maroczy has offered to send all those sending him [assistance] a package of his books.

    One Maroczy donor wrote: “It has always seemed to me that fate has treated chess masters unfairly. Successful painters and sculptors and other artists are able to sell their creations and live well while he who donates his life to chess must attempt to eke out a living writing about the game, giving lessons and exhibitions and occasionally winning a share of the meager prize money offered in most tournaments. Yet many thousands of chess players throughout the world derive great pleasure from playing over his games—frequently as beautiful and on a higher intellectual plane than the work of orthodox artists—with no financial benefit to their creator.â€Â

    Maroczy, who gave his name to the “Maroczy Bindâ€Â died in 1951.

    A biography of him is here: https://www.chesscafe.com/text/kmoch08.txt

    Quote of the day: “That’s because you didn’t bring me that train you promised last year.â€Â
    “A belligerent youngster whose red-faced mother hustled him away before anyone could get his name,â€Â after the 6- or 7-year-old boy slugged a department store Santa Claus in Moultrie, Ga., according to United Press.

    https://www.lmharnisch.com

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