Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impress the reader, Publisher George T. Delacort Jr. had printed on Ballyhoo's cover: "Edited by Norman Anthony, former editor of Life and Judge." Thus did Editor Anthony trade upon the very reputation he was bitterly attacking. He was discharged by Life, is suing for alleged breach of contract...
Bridge players, as such, are acrimonious, sedentary, conceited, unhappy, mercenary, preoccupied and futile. The better bridge players they may be, the more disagreeable they can become and the truth of this contention was needlessly demonstrated again last week in a bitter controversy between foremost U. S. authorities on Contract Bridge-Sidney Lenz, Milton C. Work, R. R. Richards, E. V. Shepard, Walter F. Wyman, and Ely Culbertson...
...slightly bald head, he was educated at the Sorbonne, married a bridge teacher after admiring the way she played a hard hand, now, with her aid, makes $40,000 a year as teacher, author, and editor of the Bridge World. Eight months ago he wrote and published the Contract Bridge Blue Book, advocating a bidding system for contract bridge on which he had worked eight years. Salient point in the Culbertson "approach-forcing system" is a two-bid to show unusual strength and to signify that partner, regardless of the merit of his own hand, must keep the bidding open...
...contract bridge, a player inevitably supplies his partner with information as to the cards he holds by the way in which he bids. Systems-such as the Vanderbilt convention, the various methods of Lenz, Work, Whitehead, et. al.-are codified kicks under the table, designed to make bidding reveal as much information as possible. There are now so many different systems, i.e., codes of giving information, that bridge players, to avoid dispute though not confusion, are compelled to preface their sittings with protracted conferences to determine which code...
During the past fortnight the following changes were news: William Fox, onetime cinemagnate (1906-30), was dropped from the board of Fox Film Corp., now Chase-dominated. By contract he retains a $500,000-a-year salary until 1935. A new Fox director whose election was a surprise was David K. Este Bruce, son-in-law of Andrew William Mellon. George Mallory Pynchon, senior partner of defunct Pynchon & Co?took a salaried job with Potter 6 Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange. Nathan S. Jonas, founder of Manufacturers Trust Co., Manhattan, chairman of its board of directors, resigned...