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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Aces | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...married an American because I believed all his lies about this country. In England I attended concerts, the theater, dances, whist drives, etc. Here in five years we stay in every night, my husband drops off to sleep, and I look at TV which I hate. For such a huge country I think its lack of traditions, glamour and culture disgusting. Furthermore, tiny England is always being criticized, but Russia, nearer your own size, gets away with anything, including murder. I'm just saving until I can skip this lousy burg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Harvard would not be setting any precedents--but only following the lead of its well-respected sister university in the Midwest. Surely the University could spare enough capital to set up the Sam Snead Professorship in Applied Golfing Tactics and the Goren Chair of Whist Certainly these are more useful subjects than coin-collecting (Harvard once had an Honorary Curator of Numismatic Literature...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

...University might be able to lure General Alfred Gruenther, one of the acknowledged world's amateur experts on bridge, to take the Goren Chair of Whist after he retires from his present job. With such a distinguished professor teaching the course, it would soon become the largest in the University...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

Plan for Parley. In the Whist Room on the first floor, the Westerners presented to Vyacheslav Molotov their plan for the Parley at the Summit, advocating a four-to-six-day conference with no set agenda, to be presided over in turn by the U.S., France, Britain and the Soviet Union. To the Western plan, Molotov made no objection; his demeanor was that of a man who had declared peace and was waiting for the others to recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Spirit of San Francisco | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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