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...good chance. The famed Four Horsemen of bridge-Hal Sims, Willard S. Karn, David Burnstine and Oswald (''Ossie") Jacoby, who won the cup a year ago-were split up. Mr. Vanderbilt was playing with Sims, Karn and Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz, onetime member of Ely Culbertson's Bridge World team which won in 1930. Their opponents in the final were Howard Schenken, David Burnstine, Richard Frey-who finished in that order at the top of the list in the bridge masters' individual tournament at Deal, N. J.-and Charles Lochridge. After the first night...
Even more exciting than the final was a match in the quarter-finals which helped bring about the downfall of the Culbertsons. Mrs. Ely Culbertson. her invisible eyebrows arched more coolly than ever, was playing with William J. Huske, Samuel Fry Jr. and Louis H. Watson against the Sims-Vanderbilt team. The match hung on the last hand at the table where Watson & Fry were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt (who puts his cards down so deliberately that his table almost always finishes last). When Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, who referees all important bridge games, cried: "Von Zedtwitz has the contract...
Last week in College Humor's November issue Colyumist Brush poured her first cocktail. It contained a description of Mrs. Ely Culbertson's eyebrows-"so thin they give her face a kind of naked-and- unashamed look'': of Queen Mary at Wimbledon-"Her hats exactly suit her. They're magnificent on her" of the Summer Casino at Monte Carlo with its floating revue-stage anchored offshore. But smart Katharine Brush let a few drops of amazingly stale beer get into her cocktail. She wrote...
...ling Yui is a partner of Swan, Culbertson & Fritz, which last week applied for membership in the New York Stock Exchange. If the application is accepted, the Stock Exchange will admit its first Chinese member-firm partner. Though Swan, Culbertson & Fritz will have its Manhattan office with Hayden, Stone & Co., the main office will be in Shanghai where the firm and Partner Khe-ling Yui have done business for a long time...
...Culbertson & National City. Rumors of the Government's intentions broke out like a rash. Diplomats representing all the Great Powers called to protest a decree not yet issued. In the thick of the fog labored large, astute, easy-mannered U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson. After having had to deal with Rumanians as U. S. Minister at Bucharest, Mr. Culbertson rather likes Chileans. His protests last week were firm, not angry. He had done his best when the Davila Government finally handed him their decree, reading significantly in part...