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Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...
Divorced. Josephine Murphy Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary, from Ely Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary (TIME, Dec. 13); in Reno...
Gaunt, bony Mr. Culbertson combines the hottest temper in a hot-tempered business with the exquisite politeness of a cinematic headwaiter. One day in 1923 he met a young woman whose skill at bridge so astounded him that he asked her to marry him. Soon Mr. Culbertson started to write about bridge as well as play it. Mrs. Culbertson gave lessons to anyone who could afford her remarkable fee of $40 an hour. Together they made about $30,000 a year...
...contract bridge replaced auction and auction players became hopelessly confused by contract's elaborate mathematics, more and more people turned to Mr. Culbertson for instruction. In 1930 the Culbertsons were taken in hand by Manhattan Pressagent Benjamin Sonnenberg, and before long they had their pictures in the papers and the reading public knew that Mr. Culbertson slept in silk pajamas and smoked monogrammed cigarets. The next year, in a blaze of newspaper publicity instigated by hard-working Mr. Sennenberg, the Culbertsons challenged Sidney S. Lenz, who held different views about the opening two-bid, to a duel...
...their partnership had become so profitable that they incorporated themselves as The Culbertsons, Inc. Out of The Culbertsons, Inc. come salaries of $2,000 a month apiece, living expenses which last year totaled $107,000. Into The Culbertsons, Inc. go towering profits from a number of sources. Publishers do not like to have their authors hear that Mr. Culbertson gets a royalty of about 33% on his books-of which about 200,000 copies are sold every year. Bridge rules, happily, keep changing. Daily bridge advice from Mr. Culbertson is printed in 110 newspapers, from Mrs. Culbertson in 56. That...