Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi Heart Hand. For bridge's enduring and growing popularity, urbane Novelist William Somerset Maugham has a simple explanation: "Bridge is the most entertaining and intelligent card game the wit of man has so far devised." Of all partnership card games, bridge is the most challenging to the mind. Nobody can become a good bridge player through experience and rule learning alone; the game requires thought. There are 635,013,559,600 possible bridge hands, and the value of every one can be modified, sometimes drastically, by the distribution of unseen cards in other hands. Even an incurably cautious...
...this seeming powerhouse is the famed Mississippi Heart Hand that, according to legend, riverboat gamblers used to deal out to suckers in the days of bridge's ancestor, whist. Far from taking all 13 tricks with hearts as trump, the hand can take only six, because the opponent on the left holds...
Bennett: First I leaned toward Miss Canada. Then I liked Miss California, but she's too sure of herself. Now I like Miss Mississippi. After all, she has read Faulkner [published by Bennett Cerf's Random House...
...last the girls, in white ball gowns, paraded across a tangle of TV cables for M.C. Bert Parks ("Aren't they all perfectly beautiful, ladeezandgennimun?"). The Cerfs and the Harts, with seven other judges, voted. The tearful winner: Miss Mississippi (Mary Ann Mobley, 21; 34½-22-35). As he packed his swimsuit and prepared to leave Atlantic City, Playwright Hart's heartfelt beach comment still hung in the air: "We're God's fools...
...During a 1953 taxicab strike, Baker ordered his wife to provide an alibi for a night spent dumping a taxicab into the Mississippi River. After police found a loaded .38-cal. revolver and seven extra shells in his pocket, he was told he was unwelcome in St. Louis and would be arrested if seen with any hoodlums...