Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER spending several hours kibitzing while Bridge Expert Charles Goren and Partner Helen Sobel played against another expert partnership, TIME Contributing Editor William Bowen and Correspondent Jack Olsen sat down to get their story firsthand. On the first deal, everybody passed. On the second, Sobel bid and made two spades. "Well.'' said Olsen, "we can always say that after spending a whole bridge evening with Goren and Sobel, we were only 60 points behind." For the results of that evening and countless other hours of digging by a task force of staffers who have now lost their amateur...
...unguarded. Goren unblinkingly led the nine of spades. By violating two elementary rules of play, he made the only lead that, as the cards lay, could possibly have defeated the contract. After taking the trick with dummy's queen, East led the five of spades, putting down his jack on the assumption that South, being apparently of sound mind, would never have led the nine away from K-9 of trump. Goren copped the trick with his lurking king, later brought home his king of diamonds to defeat the contract...
...bids, Goren stuck pretty much to Culbertson's elaborate "honor trick" count, but for no-trump bidding he adopted Milton Work's method of evaluating a hand with a point count: four points for an ace, three for a king, two for a queen, one for a jack. Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method. "It took me about 15 years," he says, "and I had some very expert help." Most valuable helper: Toronto Insurance Executive William M. Anderson, a bridge buff and mathematician...
Last week Gordon, 49, showed how profitable filling blank spaces in the air waves can be. As he sold T.P.A. to Oilman Jack Wrather's Independent Television Corp., Gordon said: "I was simply in the position of picking up my marbles at a time when they had pyramided far beyond my original expectations." Value of Gordon's marbles...
...behind Shaunessy and Briggs, only Jack Foker has had any significant experience, and Yovicsin will have to rely on essentialy untried talent to back them up. At guard, Anderson and Keating will be supported by sophomore Terry Lenzner, who has shown much promise, and again, below this, things are pretty uncertain. At center and end, the situation has eased a bit as practice has progressed. Pete Eliades is a dependable understudy behind Foster, and below Hershon and Keohane, Warren Huff and sophomore Bert Messenbaugh have looked good...