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While Bridge Expert Alfred Maximilian Gruenther & wife sat watching a Baltimore hockey game, the puck lofted over the barrier, blacked Mrs. Gruenther's right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sequels | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...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 at five diamonds," fat Hal Sims shook his shaggy head and groaned: "It can't be done." His team had set Mrs. Culbertson & partner two tricks at four spades on the same hand. At the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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