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...Experts Culbertson, Work & Sims sort their cards into suits, do not arrange the suits in order...
Will you, who know everything-or can obtain the information-please tell me whether the great card experts, Culbertson, Work, Sims, etc., play their cards without sorting them into suits? I have several times heard it stated as a fact, but the informer could not give his authority and I doubt...
Back in Manhattan from Hollywood where he had supervised six two-reel contract bridge films for RKO Radio Pictures. Inc. Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game. Having agreed to a quiet game, he found they had hired a hall and invited 300 cinema stars to watch the "world's championship." Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals. Best bridging Marx is Zeppo, best gambler Chico. All play a good bargaining game...
Thus far relations between "Lion" Alessandri and such grumbling but resigned U. S. corporations as Cosach have been notably smoothed by U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson who lately flew from Santiago to Washington to give the State Department pointers on the incoming Chilean regime. In Santiago, to which Mr. Culbertson will soon fly back, U. S. residents give him credit for establishing in three parts of the Capital strategic bases stocked with food and other useful things to which members of the U. S. colony could have fled and taken refuge had the series of Chilean revolutions grown...
...margin of Mrs. Culbertson's defeat was 190 points. Next day, David Burnstine & partners beat the team most people thought would win the cup, Ely Culbertson, Oswald Jacoby, Theodore A. Lightner and Michael Gottlieb. Margin of Ely Culbertson's defeat: 1.500 points...