IN MEMORIAM

.; .SEC:RE'fIN MEMORIAM:Cone! Hugh O'Donel AlexanderBoth in the Sigint and in the chess world HughAlexander held a unique position. He achieved theheights in two separate careers, and still had time andenergy left for a greater range of other activities thanmost of us can muster. Even those with whom he wasnot closely connected felt his untimely death as "the endof an era.''He was born on April 19th 1909 in the SouthernIrish city of Cork, and spent the firsc 12 years of his lifethere...