Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, at Manhattan's Cavendish Club, the impossible happened: no one was playing bridge. The exclusive headquarters for contract bridge experts had gone all out for a brand new four-handed card game called Check Pinochle...
...should appeal to the public even more than to the experts. It is less exacting, more exciting than bridge, and better fun because of its big percentage of luck. Combining features of two popular games, Check offers appealing innovations to fans of both. In less sacred precincts than the Cavendish Club it may challenge in earnest bridge's social supremacy...
Killed in Action. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 27, Protestant husband of ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's daughter Kathleen (married last May in a Chelsea registry office, without Catholic consent), Captain in the Coldstream Guards, heir to the Duchy of Devonshire; in France. The Marchioness has been in the U.S. since August when her oldest brother, Joseph Jr., was killed in action...
Fred Astaire reached London on the first stop of a U.S.O. tour, was embraced by his sister and greatest alltime dancing partner, Adele, Lady Cavendish, now serving in the American Red Cross...
Helen Sobel makes no money out of tournament bridge. A.C.B.L. matches prohibit betting and cash awards. Many an expert earns his keep by playing rubber bridge. Mrs. Sobel usually plays at Manhattan's Cavendish Club. She hates to teach bridge, and seldom does. She also hates to write about bridge, lets...