Last Train Last Train In contract bridge, Last Train refers to a bid just below game level in the agreed suit. A Last Train bid is typically made in a bidding sequence in which one of the partners has already indicated slam interest. A survey in the magazine "The Bridge World" showed a strong consensus approving the Last Train convention, with the following definition: The convention was both devised by Jeff Meckstroth and named by him after the Monkees song "Last Train to Clarksville". Because Last Train is a bidding convention with a special meaning under a partnership agreement, subject to National
The Last Debut Kuprin in six volumes (Khudozhestvennaya Literatura; first edition, 1957-1958). According to the Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, the story, "despite its stilted language and stereotyped characters," has the "narrative dynamism typical of the later Kuprin... [T]hough beset by literary clichés, its treatment of love and the pain it can bring is deeply sensitive, a quality that would be the hallmark of his best works." The Last Debut The Last Debut () is the debut story by the Russian writer Alexander Kuprin originally published in 3 December 1889 (No. 48) issue of the "Russky Satirichesky Listok" (Russian Satirical Leaflet) magazine. In the