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...Harvard would not be setting any precedents--but only following the lead of its well-respected sister university in the Midwest. Surely the University could spare enough capital to set up the Sam Snead Professorship in Applied Golfing Tactics and the Goren Chair of Whist Certainly these are more useful subjects than coin-collecting (Harvard once had an Honorary Curator of Numismatic Literature...
...door is wide open, however, at the tradition-laden little shop of the Gold Coast Valeteria. Said Syd Goren for proprietor Benny Jacobson, "Our service has improved a hundred percent since last September, and we're not turning anyone away. We have a hand laundry service now, and every shirt is hand-finished, just like at the Chinese places...
...best players by & large are those who apply new bidding methods to years of bidding skill. Year in & year out, Life Masters Charles Goren, Howard Schencken, Sidney Silodor, Waldemar von Zedtwitz and B. Jay Becker dominate the tournament-bridge world...
...because of severe myopia. Last week she increased her lead in the race for the William E. McKenney Trophy, awarded to the year's top scorer of masters points. She won the cup in 1941 and 1942, lost it last year to her favorite bridge partner, Charles H. Goren. This year her prospects look good again-she has 194 points, 22 points ahead of her closest rival, George Rapee...
...made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book reviewers ("What a wonderful is liquorary quiddicism! What fastiddily! . . . What unreproachable stammards and crytea-ria!"). Parodist Wilson's chief victims are "Liberary clinics Carl von Doorman, Herbert S. Goren, Gorman B. Munson...