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...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...
Suave, brainy Ely Culbertson, who has never thought of himself as merely a bridge expert, tossed aside his famed, profitable Culbertson System four years ago to devote himself to a greater ambition: planning a postwar world system which would be as orderly, logical and responsive as a deck of cards properly manipulated. Last fortnight, in his 64-page, paperbound, 25? Summary of the World Federation Plan, he presented the outline...
Critics, suspicious at first, or irritated by this presumptive bidding by a novice, found the new Culbertson system worth serious regard. He had tackled the postwar world like a bridge problem involving a deck with 2,000,000,000 cards, hundreds of suits. His solution was as logical and precise as his card-playing...
...seventh, holystone the deck and scrape the cable...
Although little of this idea remains applicable to local scafaring men, authentic sources indicate that the typical NSCS weekend probably includes at least scraping the deck at the Statler, conducting "sociological" tours to New York, or remaining at home delving into the Manual. 'Tis significant, though, that a considerable number of men lenderedence to the idea that a minor emphasis is placed...