Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unnecessary finesse accounts annually for thousands of set contracts, hundreds of lost rubbers and tens of lost tournaments. Today's contract, for example, was reached through an aggressive yet logical sequence of bidding. There are two lines of play from which this hand could be approached. If you are a beginner, you could politely smile at your partner as he laid down his hand and you realize that you have a fifty-fifty chance of making the contract, depending on where the king of clubs lay. Naturally you take the first trick with the ace, play out two rounds...
...Fill your hand, you sonuvabitch...
Strong Right Hand. The tipoff, Reston says, came last December when he made Rosenthal associate managing editor with license to ride herd on the "bullpen"-the traditionally sacrosanct bank of rewrite editors. Finally, the appointment of able, amiable Seymour Topping, 47, as assistant managing editor gives his good friend Rosenthal a strong right hand. "Nearly two years ago," Sulzberger summed up, "we began seriously to plan the transition to the next generation . . . That mission has been accomplished...
...Whaddaya do?" asks a chorus of rural voices. "I milk chocolate." In another rib cracker, the straight man wonders: "Hey, Junior, how come I saw you eating with a knife at supper?" Junior: "My fork leaked." After the worst lines-not that any of them are good-an offstage hand socks it to the culprit with a rubber chicken. Or an animated donkey pops up and chortles: "Wouldn't that sop your gravy?" To the relief of CBS, Hee Haw, which has taken over the Smothers Brothers' time slot, never gets more controversial than: "What...
Died. Charles Edison, 78, son of the famed inventor, former Secretary of the Navy (1939-40) and crusading Governor of New Jersey (1941-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Lacking his father's genius, Edison turned his hand to business and politics-first as president of the family's multimillion-dollar enterprises, then as ardent New Dealer. In 1936, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and three years later assumed the full Cabinet post, in which he supervised the Navy's intensive shipbuilding program. Then, as reform-minded New Jersey Governor, he ran head...