Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the most advertised, most bitter, most ambitious bridge match ever held. Manhattan card sharps could recall no card contest of any kind quite like it. Though bridge is a four-handed game, this match will be essentially between Sidney S. Lenz, long-recognized bridge authority and Ely Culbertson, young, brilliant, individualistic and-to conservatives-extremely unpopular contract expert. The match was arranged after months of acrimonious wrangling, conducted with due regard to the publicity value of a grudge fight, but also representing a basic disagreement as to how contract hands should...
...bridge world is currently divided between followers of the Lenz (a version of the Official) system and the Culbertson (or approach-forcing) system of play. Virtually all other bridge experts have joined with Mr. Lenz in approving the Official System, which was adopted largely to eliminate confusion during contract's experimental period. Mr. Culbertson, however, flatly refused to toss his system into the common pot. He has bitterly attacked the Official System and Mr. Lenz as one of its prime movers...
...Lenz-Culbertson test match was finally fixed at 150 rubbers. Mr. Culbertson will play a portion of the match with chic Mrs. Culbertson as his partner. His alternate partners will be Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz and Theodore A. Lightner. Mr. Lenz will play the entire match paired with Oswald Jacoby, member of the team which recently won the Vanderbilt Cup. Cocky Mr. Culbertson has backed himself with a $5,000 wager against $1,000 on the Lenz side. Culbertson winnings are promised to the New York Infirmary for Women and Children; Lenz winnings to the Unemployed...
...when he took office last year: make the magazine less funny. There is little of the dentist-office jokebook about the new Life. Its features are presented in full page units. More and longer articles and better drawings are the order. Contributors include Montague Glass, Sam Hellman, Ely Culbertson, Baird Leonard ("Mrs. Pepys' Diary"), Jefferson Machamer. Jack Kofoed (Sports), Artist Frederic G. Cooper (covers...
Even amid frenzied electoral strife last week, the Chilean Government lent friendly ears to U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson. While the welkin rang with anti-U. S. slogans, he signed with Chilean Foreign Minister Luis Izquierdo an agreement, retroactive to May 22 last, which lowers Chilean tariffs clapped on imports from the U. S. at that time, means that Chile grants the U. S. "most favored nation status...