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...modernistic style. The comfortable living quarters, which have been patterned on the English model, have much in common with the Harvard houses. Each of five "halls"--one for women, four for men--has its own dining room, sports facilities, social activities, and student government, and inter-hall competition is keen on many fronts. As at Lowell House, the hall dining rooms feature high tables--small but significant reminders of a larger debt owed by both Harvard and UCI to the British university tradition...
...spoilsport. Dr. Jordan believes that digestive cripples should be encouraged to exercise in moderation and go out for noncompetitive sports, e.g., golf between husband and wife, or tennis doubles between two couples. A keen early-morning golfer herself, she is the only woman member of Marblehead's Tedesco Country Club allowed to play on Sundays...
Those with a flair for keen logic, elegant expression, and intelligent comment will, of course, consider the Editorial Board competition with more than passing interest. The News Board will command the attention of everybody who delights in reading other people's mail...
French Ceiling. At the height of auction's popularity in the midigsos, the keen card mind of famed Yachtsman Harold S. Vanderbilt focused on the game's essential defect in comparison with present-day bridge: overtricks in excess of the bid counted toward game, just like bid tricks, so that a partnership could make a game without bidding it. Card Buff Vanderbilt found in the French variety of auction called plafond (ceiling) an innovation that he liked: only tricks bid and made were scored toward game, over tricks counting as above-the-line bonuses...
...official opening of the new TV season with time on their hands. At week's end NBC was still trying to find sponsors for 4¼ unsold nighttime hours; CBS needed someone to pick up the tab for &; ABC was stuck with 4¾. Competition is so keen that both CBS and NBC are willing to peddle one-shot time spots...