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...summer of 1921, six of us-all summer bachelors-played at Copenhagen's Klubben. The six: the Norwegian minister, the Dutch minister, the Siamese minister, two officials of the Danish Foreign Office and I, the U.S. charge d'affaires. The game, with cutting in and out, was auction, but with one new major scoring wrinkle: if you chose to jeopardize what seemed like a sure game by bidding a small slam or a grand slam, the reward, as now, was 500 points for a small slam and 1,000 for grand slam...
Nina Rolnick '59, chairman of Grant-In-Aid, announced that the annual auction has been postponed to Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2-6 p.m. in the Radcliffe Quad. In case of rain, it will be held the following Thursday...
Anita C. Rolnick '59, chairman of the Grant-in-Aid Fund, reminded the meeting of the approaching Grant-in-Aid auction scheduled for next Monday, from 2 to 6 p.m. on the Radcliffe Quad. She urged all students and other members of the community to donate any unwanted possessions, and noted that Wilbur M. Frohock, profesor of Romance Languages and Literatures, had already given the auction his daughter's bicycle...
Seizing on the "ceiling" principle, Vanderbilt added an idea of his own: a partnership would have to bid a slam in order to get a slam bonus (in both plafond and U.S.-British auction, the bonus was awarded whether the slam was bid or not). The mechanics and scoring of the new game-with slam bonuses increased tenfold and more-were worked out by Vanderbilt and three card-playing friends on a cruise to Havana in November 1925. Contract was born...
...like putting a knife through me," he says, "and I took an oath that I was never going to sit down at a card table until I knew how to play bridge." Goren returned to Philadelphia, bought a copy of Expert Milton Work's book on auction bridge, and studied it daily for nearly eight months. "If they had destroyed the plates of that book," he says, "I could have reconstructed it from memory...