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Pinch-hitting for Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, eccentric Bridge Systematizer Ely Culbertson devoted most of a column to explaining how the war should be fought and how it will go, disclosed "the real reason why I have been out of circulation these last three years." The reason: he has been "building a concrete and comprehensive system-a Treaty of Peace-for the coming world settlement." Without describing the system, the bridge player characterized.it as "a blueprint that works, not dreams," declared that it had been endorsed by "hundreds of professors, statesmen and specialists...
French, Franklin Culbertson...
...Filley of Bernardsville, New Jersey and Massachusetts Hall, Osborne of Boston and Lionel Hall. McCarthy, in 10th place, is from Chicago and Straus Hall. Election Results Freshman Jubilee and Smoker Committees John Marshall Alcorn 291 Thomas Victor Keene, Jr. 213 Joseph Lippincott Eldredge 204 Sinclair Weeks, Jr. 203 Franklin Culbertson French 201 James Edmund McNulty, Jr. 193 Whitson Makamie Overcash, Jr. 184 Oliver Dwight Filley, Jr. 180 Maurice Machado Osborne, Jr. 180 Richard Frank McCarthy...
...American people have handsomely supported, showered wealth on me, and now I want to do something to express my gratitude. . . ." So said Ely Culbertson, 49, onetime (1907-13) anarchist and Social Revolutionist in Europe, now longtime U. S. bridge tycoon. His method of expressing his gratitude: running for the Democratic nomination for Congressman-at-large in Connecticut...
...pages, the whole Culbertson bridge career absorbs scarcely 100. Culbertson built up the game and himself as its expert to monstrous proportions, tired of it at last. A vacation, reading and thinking alone in Paris, made it all the more clear that Ely the "Philosopher," the "Epicurean," the "Idealist," must dethrone the "Family Man," the "Business Manager," the "Celebrity," the "Child." His story ends on the eve of an amicable divorce. An Appendix on the Mass Mind contains the most crackpot writing, the most valuable observations, in the book...