Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom the American Contract Bridge Association likes to think of as bridge players would not dream of saying "pass" when their partners have begun by bidding two in any suit. That interesting fact is due solely to 14 years of unceasing agitation by Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, who are to contract bridge exactly what Henry Ford is to motoring. They practically invented it and they have made a fortune...
Gaunt, bony Mr. Culbertson combines the hottest temper in a hot-tempered business with the exquisite politeness of a cinematic headwaiter. One day in 1923 he met a young woman whose skill at bridge so astounded him that he asked her to marry him. Soon Mr. Culbertson started to write about bridge as well as play it. Mrs. Culbertson gave lessons to anyone who could afford her remarkable fee of $40 an hour. Together they made about $30,000 a year...
...contract bridge replaced auction and auction players became hopelessly confused by contract's elaborate mathematics, more and more people turned to Mr. Culbertson for instruction. In 1930 the Culbertsons were taken in hand by Manhattan Pressagent Benjamin Sonnenberg, and before long they had their pictures in the papers and the reading public knew that Mr. Culbertson slept in silk pajamas and smoked monogrammed cigarets. The next year, in a blaze of newspaper publicity instigated by hard-working Mr. Sennenberg, the Culbertsons challenged Sidney S. Lenz, who held different views about the opening two-bid, to a duel...
...characters soon to go on the air are Solomon, Ruth, Esther, David and Saul. According to Director Wylie, Columbia aims to "freshen and reanimate" the stories, employing ablest writers to do so. Margaret Sangster did Job, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) Joseph. Thyra Samter Winslow and Ernest Howard Culbertson are among those selected to write future scripts. A Manhattan rabbi, priest and minister review the acts, copies of which Columbia will send in any quantity to churches throughout...
...error to think that Ely Culbertson and Milton C. Work were responsible for making bridge a national frenzy. If any one man was responsible, it was Clifford E, Albert, who was last week rewarded with promotion to the presidency of Cincinnati's snug little U. S. Playing Card Co., succeeding Arthur R. Morgan, who retired to the chairmanship of the executive committee. Cardman Albert devised the bridge broadcast plan, whereby players in the home follow the game in the studio play by play. At one time U. S. Playing Card was promoting bridge in this fashion through 155 stations...