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...premium for making a doubled or redoubled contract is removed. The premium for undoubled over-tricks is reduced from 50 to the equivalent suit or no-trump value...
...team. The match hung on the last hand at the table where Watson & Fry were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt (who puts his cards down so deliberately that his table almost always finishes last). When Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, who referees all important bridge games, cried: "Von Zedtwitz has the contract at five diamonds," fat Hal Sims shook his shaggy head and groaned: "It can't be done." His team had set Mrs. Culbertson & partner two tricks at four spades on the same hand. At the other end of the room, there was a sharp slapping as little Baron...
...While the Vanderbilt Cup tournament was in progress last week, the Whist Club's Committee on Laws announced a new international code for contract which contains five major changes in scoring and a change in the penalty for revoking...
...because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed to pay Mr. Wayne $1,000 a month to quit the cinema and live with her; in Manhattan. Mrs. Wayne's countersuit to void the contract was denied by the New York Supreme Court, appealed. Honored. George Oenslager, B. F. Goodrich Co. technical adviser...
...between Lawyer Smith and Student Smith relations became strained. Last fortnight Student Smith sued for his college expense-money-$1,900 which he said his father owed him in exchange for "love, affection and other valuable considerations." His suit was promptly dismissed, on the grounds that a verbal contract which cannot be accomplished within a year is void (statute of fraud). Student Smith planned to appeal...