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Goren speaks of his point-count bidding system as a "back to nature movement," meaning that it makes scant use of artificial conventions, relies on "natural" bids that are logically related to the cards in the hand. In his own play, Goren seldom uses any artificial bids except the Blackwood and Gerber slam conventions...
...rather than jump to four), permitting inexpensive exploration for slam possibilities. Goren signaled that his spades were rebiddable. Sobel's four clubs showed the ace, hinted that she was thinking of slam if Goren held enough power. Goren then displayed support for hearts, and Sobel put in a Blackwood call for aces...
Goren saw that with Sobel's club ace, the texture of his own club suit gave the combined hands extra strength that Blackwood signaling could not indicate. So instead of giving the five-heart response to show two aces, he jumped to six clubs. To Sobel, the Goren message was clear: I have the missing aces and the king of hearts, but I also have solid honors in clubs, so go ahead and bid seven if you've got the hearts. She went ahead and bid seven. With Goren's club tricks available for discarding two diamonds...
...rolling low comedy, the LeFevre Trio (Eva Mae and Urias LeFevre plus Little Troy Lumpkin) in an almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta's own Statesmen, the local favorites. Among the evening's repertory: Riding the Range with Jesus and Everybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time up There. As the evening wore...
Married. Lucian Michael Freud, 31, tousled London painter, grandson of the late great Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud; and Lady Caroline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 22, sister of Britain's Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...