Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
While most bridge experts regard each other with ill-concealed contempt, the bridge expert whom others resent the most is Ely Culbertson. A pale young man with rings under his eyes, a 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...
...Brusadelli & Manni, suing General Motors Acceptance Corp. for having called them bankrupt, last week had genial Lory K. Bethune, Chilean manager for General Motors, jailed for "interrogation." Mr. Bethune, of Atlanta, Ga., was held incommunicado, denied counsel. It required two heated notes from U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson to get him out of jail. Subsequently Mariano Puga Vega, a lawyer for General Motors, challenged the chief attorney for Brusadelli & Manni to a duel...