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...game soon noted that the exposed hand made possible much greater subtlety and ingenuity of play. In 1903 or thereabouts, bridge-playing British civil servants stationed at a remote outpost in India hit upon the idea of bidding for the privilege of naming the trump suit. Within a decade, auction bridge had captured the card tables of the U.S. and Europe...
French Ceiling. At the height of auction's popularity in the midigsos, the keen card mind of famed Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt focused on the game's essential defect in comparison with present-day bridge: overtricks in excess of the bid counted toward game, just like bid tricks, so that a partnership could make a game without bidding it. Card Buff Vanderbilt found in the French variety of auction called plafond (ceiling) an innovation that he liked: only tricks bid and made were scored toward game, over tricks counting as above-the-line bonuses...
KNCU's five-story headquarters in the town of Moshi is in itself a symbol of the Chagga's progress. Built around a flowering courtyard of bougainvillaea and poinsettia, it not only houses offices and auction rooms, but also one of Tanganyika's few public libraries. Soon KNCU hopes to build a $15,000 community center for plays, concerts, art and agricultural exhibits...
...even snagged and ate the latest edition of the daily Cordoba. As the pack prospered and multiplied on such fare, fines were imposed on loose burros and a squad of "burreros" was formed to round them up. The owners just waited and eventually bought back their animals at city auction for purely nominal prices. Public opinion would not stand for destroying the strays...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...