Contract Bridge born on ship marks 50th anniversary
The card game contract bridge, conceived during a Panama Canal voyage on the Finland in 1925 by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Francis McN Bacon III recalls the moment aboard ship when new rules and a scoring table transformed bridge into a global four handed pastime with millions of players worldwide.
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New York
UPI
Panama Canal
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
New York Central Railroad
Francis McN. Bacon
Bacon
Finland
Balboa
Pacific
Canal
San Francisco
New
York
Vanderbilt
United States
China
Canada
New Eyes for the Needy aids thousands with shoebox origin
Since 1932 New Eyes for the Needy in Short Hills New Jersey has donated over a million pairs of glasses annually, funded by discarded eyewear and metal scrap. Volunteers test sort and distribute mostly to medical missions worldwide. Donations encouraged to New Eyes for the Needy Inc. Short Hills NJ 07078.
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New Eyes
Short Hills
New Jersey
Arthur Terry
Red Cross
New York City
Terry
Minnesota
Gramps
New Eyes For the Needy, Inc
Nuclear heat waste to power small plants patent issued
Surplus heat from radioactive waste from growing nuclear plants can power small auxiliary plants. Harold M. Busey of ERDA received Patent 3,911,684 for solidifying waste fission products in containers lowered into vertical storage tubes, with heat carried to generators to create steam for power. The heat can emit for 20+ years. Another patent details a centrifugal feeder orienter for small articles aiding high speed packaging and assembly, used by the army to produce bullets.
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N.Y. Times News Service
Washington
Harold M. Busey
Energy Research and Development Administration
Atomic Energy Commission
Busey
Virginia
Kurt H. Hoppmann
Hopmann's Corp
Springfield, Va
George W. Edmunds
Horst A. Scholar
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Richard L. Frey
Official Encyclopedia of Bridge
International Bridge Press Association
Russia
Sweden
Frey
Austria
Italy
Australia
Far East
South America
World Bridge Federation
Army
Frankford Arsenal
Philadelphia
Leonard A. de Stefano
Osyp Nimlowycz
Navy
Pentagon
American Telephone & Telegraph
John J. Botterell
Robert L. Dayton
James R. Guyler
Rice
Snow and Surf Industries Inc
Lansdale
Southern Vermont
Cy Bluto — Manager Appliance Center Inc
North St. Benn
the Pine Cobble School
Williamstown
Massachusetts
Vermont
Bruce Mitchell
First Vermont Bank
Barre
Bellows Falls
Bennington
Brattleboro
Castleton
Chester
Manchester
Rutland
Waterbury
F.d.lc
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