Word: auctions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
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...