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...Pinnacle. That same competitive instinct took Charlie Goren, driven by poverty and a desperate desire for recognition, to the very top of the world's bridge players, and it has kept him there for years. Whether measured by master points awarded in tournaments (5,791), trophies (some 2,000), income (about $150,000 a year, more than any other five bridge experts combined), fame (he is a household word wherever bridge is played) or influence (his bidding system is used around the world), Bachelor Goren is the king of the bridge aces. "If I stopped playing today," he gloatingly...
...Goren's bridge books have sold 3,500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, have been translated into eight foreign languages. His seven-days-a-week bridge column appears in 194 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 26 million, and in foreign papers from Manila to Johannesburg. Of the U.S.'s 1,000 fulltime professional bridge teachers, more than 90% teach the Goren system of bidding...
...towering pinnacle of bridge success, Charlie Goren has plenty to keep him busy, aside from playing bridge: his syndicated column (he writes it himself, in longhand), a regular department in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, trips abroad as a sort of U.S. ambassador to overseas bridgedom, 10,000 letters a year from bridge fans (many include ticklish bridge problems, but with the help of his staff he answers them all), and a venture called Goren Enterprises, which licenses manufacture of such items as a card-table cover with rules of the game printed on it and cocktail napkins decorated with cartoons and useful...
When not busy making money, Charlie Goren, nagged by an inner streak of loneliness, likes to go where people are. He is an inveterate Broadway theatergoer, a football and baseball addict. His active sport is golf, at which he is a good bridge player, shooting about 100. Now and then he sallies out of his modest Manhattan apartment to play some nonbusiness but highly serious bridge with the experts who hang out at Manhattan's Cavendish and Regency clubs. When he plays bridge with nonexpert celebrities, as he often does, Goren is perhaps the world's most tolerant...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica warned that contract bridge, then in its infancy, was "not a good game for the club cardroom" because "coordination between two partners is very necessary" and "not always easily obtained." Nearly all experts agree that bidding is the really important and difficult part of bridge. And even Goren's bitterest enemies in the cutthroat world of professional bridge admit that he is an alltime great bidder...