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Cause of the furore: Look had run a postage-stamp-size view of a Miami Beach stripteaser in the advanced throes of her art. Look's motives were studiously patriotic: to illustrate "slaphappy, flush America on a deluxe joyride" and Miami Beach's "war-dodging, business-as-usual complacency...
Points & Checks. Bidding is based on the number of points that a player can meld. Melds in Check include: four cards of a kind in different suits (four aces, 100); a flush (ace to ten in one suit), 150; a "marriage" (KQ of a suit), 20; a "pinochle" (Spade Q and Diamond J), 40. Bidding starts at 200 points, is raised in units of ten or more. A hand must be bid unless the player has no "marriage." A game ends when one team scores 1,000 points- but the team to win is the one with the most "checks...
...Conventions" in this bidding:1) North's 210 opening showed that he had at least 100 in melds, but no powerful suit; 2) East's 260 signaled that he held four aces; 3) South's jump to 400 showed his flush and other strength; 4) West's raise to 410 indicated the strength of his own flush and partner's ace protection...
...Detroit all plants sent workers home on an extended weekend after WPB curtailed their fuel. Then by newspaper and radio pleas they frantically tried to get them back after WPB changed its mind. Householders in Columbus, Ohio were told to cut down on their baths, flush their toilets only once a day per person so that the huge Curtiss-Wright plant would have enough water. Reason: the severe cold had kept snow from melting normally, lowered water in reservoirs...
Zhukov's speed had never been matched by the Germans in their blitziest days. Off the roads, his route was over swamps and through forests. It was a terrain for Cossack cavalry to flush out enemy resistance left by the tanks. The Cossacks, in the style of their forebears, staged awesome attacks. One detachment caught almost an entire company of Germans, galloped among them with sabers slashing...