Word: culbertson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well stocked with top-quality instructors. The investment course, for instance, is conducted by Ralph B. Dibble, account executive for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Beane and an instructor at Boston University. A course in contract bridge is given by Forrest N. Maddix, an authorized teacher of the Culbertson System, while William Drake, staff artist on the Christian Science Monitor, offers instruction in cartooning and newspaper drawing...
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Luther G. Holbrook of T. Mellon & Sons; Richmond, Virginia, Irving D. Dawes '12, Vice-President & Treasurer of Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp.; St. Louis, Missouri, Gupton A. Vogt, Assistant Secretary of Hess & Culbertson Jewelry Co.; and Seattle, Washington, Charles E. Eincaid, Trust Officer of Seattle Trust and Savings Bank...
Dwight Eisenhower, according to Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson, is a tough man across the bridge table: "Classic, sound, with occasional flashes of brilliance." Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (Ike's sometime partner) also rated with Expert Culbertson as "the best player on the Supreme Court or any other." Army Chief of Staff General Omar Bradley was acknowledged "an outstanding strategist; he takes more chances than Eisenhower." Tops on Culbertson's list of Government players: Major General A. M. Gruenther, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...group only got going a short time ago. All of a sudden, it seemed, there were scores of bright young men telling everybody to hurry up and produce a world government before it was too late. Early world federalism smacked of wild-eyed student debaters fussing over the Culbertson method. And, in the beginning, at least, there were so many world government groups that the average citizen was slightly confused...
...Havana. Sims took up the game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge...