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Last week Manhattan's Whist Club, lawmaking body for U. S. contract bridge players, posted a new scoring system to replace the one in use since 1932. Result of studies by the Whist Club, London's Portland Club, the Commission Française du Bridge of Paris and many a bridge expert, the new code is effective all over the world after March 31. Important changes...
Said Chairman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of the Whist Club's Committee on Rules: "These new figures are not as nearly in accord with the laws of chance as were the old, but the change was made to protect the pocketbook of the loser...
Died. Milton C. Work. 69. whist and bridge authority, founder with Sidney Lenz of the "official" system of contract bridge bidding; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
...72nd birthday Charles Michael Schwab revealed that he was "lightening his load" by retiring as president of Manhattan's Whist Club and "only spending several hours a day" as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. "But I'm not through playing bridge nor have I quit the Bethlehem Steel Co." said he. "I will always get a kick out of cards, and as for the Bethlehem Company-that is my monument...
...occurred a tragedy which kept her from California for more than 20 years. Alexander B. Garnett, a deranged Confederate veteran whom she had dismissed for obscenity in a whist game, attempted to shoot her in the Palace Hotel. A Major J. W. McLung who struggled with the man was shot and killed. The trial and all the life of Lily Hitchcock Coit were a boon to California journalism. On the advice of friends she went abroad, and abroad she stayed almost continuously until...