Subject: 1956 Photo from "Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman T.
Whitaker"

On 18 June 2004 Jud McCranie replied in
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On 18 Jun 2004 05:36:42 GMT, (Miriling) wrote:

In Hilbert's book about Whitaker, the author confirms that Whitaker and
Fischer
were members of the Log Cabin Chess Club team that toured Cuba in 1956.

I think that is very likely where the picture I saw was from. Replace
"Mexico" with "Cuba" in my memory of a conversation from 32 years ago,
and everything fits.

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If you can get your hands on a copy of the April 1956 issue of Chess Review,
there is a photograph on page 101 that shows some of the players who were
members of the Log Cabin Chess Club contingent who toured Cuba in early March
of that year. Besides Fischer, Whitaker, and E. Forry Laucks, there were
William Walbrecht (representing the New Jersey State Chess Association), Ted
Miller (from the Fool's Mate Chess Club in Newark, N.J.), Robert Houghton (from
the Public Service Chess Club, also in Newark), and E.R. Glover (president of
the Mercantile Library Chess Club). I think that there were eight players in
all who made up the Log Cabin team, but I don't know who the eighth player was.
Maybe that person is mentioned in Hilbert's book about Whitaker.

George Mirijanian