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...game vary considerably from those of orthodox contract bridge. Each player gets 16 cards, the extra one being faced up by the dealer for disposition by the player who gets the bid. The "book" (in bridge, six tricks) becomes eight in super-bridge. In the bidding, "royals" rank between spades and no trumps. Club and diamond tricks above book count 20 points, heart and spade tricks 25, royals 30, no trumps 40. Game level is raised from 100 to 120 points. Three slams are possible: little slam, or six tricks over book; grand slam, seven over book; and super-slam...
Downing Street. Last week Mr. Chamberlain invited to No. 10 Downing Street the Italian Ambassador, spade-bearded Count Dino Grandi, and in Mr. Eden's presence himself made, as Prime Minister, opening moves for quickly closing the breach between London and Rome opened by Il Duce's conquest of Ethiopia and sending of troops to Spain. Mr. Eden was thus subjected by the head of the House of Chamberlain to acute personal humiliation. Saturday and Sunday, for the first time since the Abdication Crisis there were meetings of the British Cabinet. A patient, drably-dressed crowd almost filled...
...increased such activities until, last year, 25 teams traveled 25,000 miles preaching amity. Newest N. C. J. C. goodwill stunt is for a team to "bury a hatchet" in public, as was done in Seattle when Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago wielded a spade while Presbyterian Rev. Stanley Armstrong Hunter of Berkeley, Calif, and Rev. Thomas Lawrason Riggs, famed chaplain of Yale's Catholic Club, deposited a small hatchet in the cold earth...
Planners. Credit for this ultra-modern document under Chairman Kennedy's signature goes to spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting...
...Spade-calling (TiME, Aug. 22, 1932), bronze-haired Tallulah Bankhead, famed for her heavy-lidded sophistication, has been in the theatre since she was 16. Longest Bankhead run on a Broadway stage was Reflected Glory (1936), 127 performances. Shortest: (see above...