Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
...crucial board, Messrs. Rapee & Fry of the Cavendish team bid three diamonds, made five, scored 150 points (including so-point bonus for under-game contract). Playing the same hand in another room, Messrs. Hazen & Frey of the Bridge Whist team bid five hearts, were doubled, redoubled, made their bid, and, being vulnerable, scored 1,100 points. The money hand, opened by Hazen with a daring three-heart...
...first partner (in pre-Hollywood days) was his sister, pert, chic Adele, who left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...
Married. Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, 20, sixth and youngest of the beauteous daughters of ex-Appeaser Lord Redesdale; and Lord Andrew Cavendish, 20, Coldstream Guardsman, second son of the Duke of Devonshire; in London. Sister Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, appearing publicly for the first time since she returned last year from a visit to Germany with mysterious bullet wounds in her neck (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940), attended-by a side door...
...Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Peter Kapitza had done such astonishing work on magnetism and low temperatures that they built a special laboratory for him. By building up and suddenly short-circuiting huge accumulations of electricity through a set of coils, Kapitza produced magnetic fields five times more powerful than any before...