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gathers around to watch the interminable after-dinner games or the final 

 matches of the annual tournament as they used to. Not everyone in town 

 even knows who the chief leading competitors are this year. 



Poker games are popular, too, though perhaps not on grounds of 

 health. The ongoing games bring people together and, once again, provide 

 an opportunity to discuss science and to bring together that cross- 

 fertilization of ideas and innovations that is the MBL. A biochemist and a 

 neurophysiologist might have some clever ideas about neuromuscular 

 action over a straight flush, for example. 



Gardening 



Gardening fills the time of many Woods Hole residents, though most 

 summer scientists do not choose to invest the time or the energy in a garden 

 that they miss for so much of tlie year anyway. Because of the humidity and 



E. E. Just throwing horseshoes, flanked 

 by Calvin Bridges and Donald 

 Lancefield. Photograph by Alfred F. 

 Huettner, MBL Archives. 



