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...activities aim at assisting Boston's underprivileged young. For several years members of Lampy's literary staff, including W. Russell Bowie '41 and Elliot Richardson '42, have been carrying on the polite tradition of playing whist and cribbage with the greybeards of the Old Man's Club in the Ellis Memorial. Anyone three-score years and five on up is eligible...
Morris Bagby was one of the last links with Franz Liszt. Musician Bagby never learned from the master how to be a virtuoso pianist, but he played whist with Liszt, and like other pupils reverently snitched the hairs which drifted from Liszt's white mane to the collar of his morning coat. Morris Bagby heard Brahms play the piano, "as though he had ten thumbs." When Pianist Bagby returned to the U. S., he was invited by Julia Ward Howe to read a paper at Newport's Town and Country Club. Mrs. Howe's daughter advised...
...talk in the air of unionization issue. One high-up in the organization stated that he was perfectly satisfied with labor conditions as they stand, and desired no change. Smiling faces apparently belied talk of growing discontent in the ranks of University employees, as they danced and competed at whist and bridge prizes donated by members...
...described the spectacle of Senator Morrison driving up in his Rolls-Royce to the entrance of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "And when he gets down out of his Rolls auto-moe-bile," boomed Bob Rey nolds, "Cam's footman takes this here roll of carpet like this - " Whist! Reynolds unrolled the carpet on the platform, strutted across it pompously to the imaginary doorway of the Mayflower. "And do you know," roared Reynolds, "what he eats in that there hotel? He eats caw-vee-yah! Do you folks know what caw-vee-yah is?" "What?" some yokel would...
...autocrat who held Russia with a firm hand, Catherine was democratic to a degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused...