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Last week U. S. card players realized they might have to deal with a green suit in their waking moments. From Vienna, via London, had come a new 65-card, five-suit bridge deck,* the added 13-card suit dubbed "royals" and embossed with a green emblem patterned after Britain's Imperial Crown. Thought up one summer night last year by Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while...
...several years U. S. card experts have experimented with five-suit games. One such, devised last summer by A. A. Jordan of Virginia Beach, Va., has a crown-emblem fifth suit...
...When rich Mr. Pepperdine sold his controlling interest and retired to California, he became so twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast, which now has more stores (over 200) than the original company. Familiar to most coast motorists is Western's emblem, "Saving Sam," a model of which stands as a mascot on the Pepperdine desk. Together Mr. Pepperdine's twin creations sold $35,000,000 worth of automobile equipment last year, but Mr. Pepperdine at 50 is as restless as ever...
...Manhattan banquet, New Jersey's Republican Governor Harold Giles Hoffman suggested that the G. O. Party emblem be changed from the elephant to the deer since the deer would "make a better run" and "a few bucks and a little doe would not hurt a damn bit." Thereupon the guests were treated by the toastmaster to a three stanza Hoffman poem, Where's My Daddy?, about a father who gets run over by an automobile...
...months past military equipment from bullets to airplanes has poured in from Manchukuo. Some of the planes bear the Japanese emblem of the Rising Sun, others the crossed thunderbolts of Prince Teh. All Mongokuo's tanks and planes are in charge of Japanese mechanics...