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...editor can and does call a Democrat a Democrat, a Baptist a Baptist, sometimes even a spade a spade-but he has to be very careful whom he calls a Communist. Many a Communist-at-heart takes care not to be one officially. What many an editor would like to know: is it libelous per se to call a man a Communist? To the growing body of legal opinion, on which a solid answer will be based some day, two noteworthy items were added last week...
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...
...Play showed three main differences from bridge: 1) South, claiming the contract at 500, declared spades trump (in Check, the trump is not announced until the contract is claimed); 2) South, leading the Spade ace won East's singleton Spade ace (in Check, the first ace wins the second; the first king, the second king, etc.), 3) honor cards taken in tricks counted in point score (in Check, aces and tens count ten, kings and queens, 5.; jacks, no count...
Caught in the middle of this spite war, like an innocent bystander, was mild Ben Cohen, almost the only early New Dealer left in Washington, and for the past two years chief counsel for War Mobilizer Byrnes. Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben Cohen had coveted the now-vacant job of counselor to the State Department. Furthermore he had been offered the job by Secretary of State Stettinius...
General Peyton Conway March, wrinkled, spade-bearded, soldier-straight, World War I U.S. Chief of Staff, who said on his 79th birthday last year that an Allied victory in Europe in 1944 was "not in the cards," reached 80 and sounded off again. "There is no escaping the fact that the situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict...