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...little slam remains as before (500 points non-vulnerable, 1,000 points vulnerable). Grand slam bonuses are reduced: from 2,250 to 1,500 when vulnerable; from 1,500 to 1,000 when non-vulnerable.* For tricks over the contract, the bonuses are unchanged...
...voluptuous" and "continental" woman with whom Violinist Stuyvesant was once embroiled. There is a teetotaling housekeeper who gets drunk, and a happy ending. Sample comedy, when the addle-headed housekeeper hears the name of a famed sexologist mentioned: "If that Mr. Havelock Ellis comes around here, I'll slam the door in his face...
...full meaning of the Masters' Invitation Open Tournament held over this rolling, pine-fringed course last week was missed by those sportswriters who harped on "Bobby Jones's return to competition." True, it was his first tournament since 1930, the year of his "grand slam" in the British and U. S. Open and amateur championships. But it was much more than that. It was a chance for the game's greatest idol to show that he has not been inactive on his pedestal. He presented to the game and to all the professionals whose glory...
Thus did President Roosevelt slam the backdoor with a bang which was heard all over Washington and which reverberated for days in the country's press headlines. No names had been named but everyone knew whom the President was talking about. Immediate results...
...whispers something to South and West who nod and chuckle. Then East quickly sorts the 13 spades from the deck, stacks it so that every fourth card is a spade. North returns with the drinks to find East just beginning to deal. When North, gasping, has bid his grand slam, laid down his 13 spades and scored 3,240 points (vulnerable, redoubled), East leaps to the telephone, gets the local newspaper on the wire...