Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Amster Spiro plunged deeper into the game business. He bought two-thirds interest in Bridge World (circ. 10,000) and Games Digest (circ. 10,000) from Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson. Mr. Culbertson, who started both magazines, remains as part owner and editor, but Hearstman Spiro announced a new policy. Henceforth Bridge World, instead of being Mr. Culbertson's private forum, will invite other experts to debate their views in its pages. Whatever Mr. Spiro's policy, he will have difficulty matching the frankness of the final Bridge World editorial while under Culbertson ownership: "Every bridge writer...
Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...
Divorced. Josephine Murphy Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary, from Ely Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary (TIME, Dec. 13); in Reno...
...their partnership had become so profitable that they incorporated themselves as The Culbertsons, Inc. Out of The Culbertsons, Inc. come salaries of $2,000 a month apiece, living expenses which last year totaled $107,000. Into The Culbertsons, Inc. go towering profits from a number of sources. Publishers do not like to have their authors hear that Mr. Culbertson gets a royalty of about 33% on his books-of which about 200,000 copies are sold every year. Bridge rules, happily, keep changing. Daily bridge advice from Mr. Culbertson is printed in 110 newspapers, from Mrs. Culbertson in 56. That...