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...most of the crack U.S. bridge players are comparatively young men, few sports have suffered as little interference from the war as tournament contract. Last week a full quota of stars showed up as usual in Manhattan for the two big annual tournaments-the Masters' Individual and the Vanderbilt Cup. There was a sprinkling of players in uniform (corporal to lieut. colonel) all slightly out of practice. Average age of the entrants: about 33. The winner...
...turned out to be Alvin Roth's week, for after winning the Individual he went on to win the Vanderbilt Cup too, as a member of the victorious team-of-four. Honors for the week's most spectacular play, however, went not to Alvin Roth but to a pudgy, cigar-smoking teammate, Fred Kaplan, who turned the trick of bidding and making a grand slam in hearts with only three hearts in his hand...
...School are classified now as 2nd lieutenants MA-AUS of the reserve. They will go on active duty around the end of June, first going to Fort Devens for induction, then returning to the Medical School where they will continue as Privates 7th class, in uniform and barracked in Vanderbilt Hall...
...settlers in Junction City, Kans. were "Mr. & Mrs. Edwardson" (Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco and husband Corporal Pasquale), who let it be known that they were trying to avoid publicity...
...John B. Youmans of Vanderbilt University declared that the "indiscriminate consumption of vitamins by the general public" is wasteful...