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Sirs: I came in late on this week's issue (TIME, April 26) which accounts for the delay in registering my Bronx cheer on your reporting of Fred Kaplan's "bridge feat...
...credit to Fred Kaplan, whose imagination carried him to a very brilliant coup ; but what happened to produce the illusion that seven hearts was "the highest makable contract" and that seven spades is automatically defeated...
Monroe, ex-prize fighter, business promoter, whose name was once Kaplan, had leased the big red house on R Street from Mrs. Smith to set himself up in style. His front won him a dozen or so commissions from business firms. He was able to recall delivering only two Government contracts, one of which was later canceled. Altogether he had made about $4,000 in the last two years. As for the rest, he couldn't remember...
...irrepressible psychic bidder, Kaplan opened the bidding with a heart; when his partner finally raised him to six hearts, Kaplan nonchalantly bid the seventh...
...Kaplan blandly explained that when his partner supported his heart bid, he deduced at once that North must have at least four trumps to the Ace King. His stab-in-the-dark psychic landed the pair in the highest makable contract. Most teams wound up with a safe but unprofitable bid of seven diamonds. Players who got to seven spades, an apparently more logical contract than hearts on South's holding, went down on West's inevitable opening lead of the club Ace, which forced the declarer to ruff and eventually gave West a trick in spades...