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...Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered 138 lectures at $25 apiece on behalf of Japan, which also employed Washington Lawyer Frederick Moore at $500 a month. Piquant were the names of Spain's U. S. interpreters: for the Rightists. William S. Culbertson, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Chile and brother of Paul Culbertson, assistant chief of the State Department's Division of European Affairs; for the Loyalists, the New Republic's Contributing Editor William P. Mangold, who got a number of Congressmen in trouble with their constituents early this year...
...Rochester (N. Y.) Advertising Club, Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson talked about himself. Said he: "I took myself and multiplied myself 100-fold. For instance, by nature I am witty. So I worked night and day to be brilliant. By nature, I am cocky. So I multiplied it.... By nature I am humble. ... I really know I am, for only humble people have the right to be conceited. That's why I'm so humble...
...Like Ely Culbertson, P. Hal Sims, and most other famed contract experts, the Four Aces admit that they are the best bridge players, individually and collectively, in the world...
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...
...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...