Word: culbertson
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...longer pays dividends, it is not at all remarkable that Yankee ingenuity has provided another spectacle for the vicarious enjoyment of the multitude, which combines an element of sport with the best features of the aforementioned pastimes--namely, the one hundred and fifty rubber bridge match of Ely Culbertson and wife us. Hal Sims and wife at Crockferd's Club in New York...
Foils: Chosa A. Fujino defeated Day (C), 4-0, Culbertson (C), 5-2, and Epstein (C), 5-1; William F. Gerber defeated Culbertson (C), 5-0, and Day (C), 5-4; Epstein (C) defeated William B. Berssenbrugge, 5-2, and Gerber, 5-1; Day (C) defeated Laval J. Le Boeuf, 5-4; Culbertson (C) defeated Le Boeuf...
...Keith's management have any further reason for a sparse Sunday crowd, let it consider the following that Culbertson featurettes are poorly acted and rank advertising; that Wisner Vitaphone musicalities are neither musical nor comical; and that, as dwindling applause should indicate the Comfords are beginning to lose the glamor of New York and to take on the appearance of able hard working organists. Even Boston will refuse to support a picture like this...
Married, Theodore Lightner, 40, contract bridge expert, partner of Ely Culbertson; and one Mary Patricia Smith, 25, bridge player; in London...
...Culbertson, Theodore A. Lightner, Michael T. Gottlieb: the "international bridge championship" for a trophy put up by Charles M. Schwab; against a British team of four, whose bidding grew timid after they had piled up an early lead, 104,080 points to 93,180 after 300 boards; in London. Wrote Ely Culbertson in his description of the match which was played in two glass-enclosed rooms at Selfridge's Department store, with periscopes outside the walls for spectators: "The hands were tough and the battle was a titanic one but gradually we began to impose our will...