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There are millions of duffers in televisionland who delight in watching an expert at work - and if the expert muffs or fluffs, so much the better. The latest program with big duffer appeal is Championship Bridge, run weekly on film over 175 ABC stations by Bridge King Charles Goren (TIME cover, Sept. 29, 1958), and most of its ingredients are about as easy in TV production as a lay-down slam...
...Beulah Goren did Giovanni's wife, Luisa, somewhat nuttier than necessary, it seemed to me; one should be able to identify strongly with Luisa as a woman whose horror at the senselessness of her son's death has driven her near the brink of insanity--Miss Goren seemed to have tottered over long ago, however, and was therefore merely grotesque. John Kennedy's Tomaso needs to come alive, Carroll Britch's Nicola to die down...
...Trailing midway through the final round at Seattle, the bridge team headed by B. Jay Becker rallied strongly to overtake Charles Goren's team and win the Vanderbilt Cup, one of the most prized trophies in U.S. contract bridge, earned the right to represent the U.S. in the 1960 World Bridge Olympiad in Rome...
...late stepfather, Milton Work, hired Charles Goren, taught him a lot of bridge and some manners, paid him $35 a week as a ghostwriter, edited not the "brightness" but the brashness from his writing, introduced him into circles otherwise closed to him_in short, gave him a real leg up toward his present (undoubtedly earned and deserved) income of $150,000 a year...
...Goren is quoted as resenting his salary of $35 a week. In the early '305 that was pretty good pay, especially for a beginner...