Word: karn
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Willard S. Karn, natty Manhattan oil-heater salesman and fat Philip Hal Sims of Deal, N. J.: the contract pair championship of the National Bridge tournament; at Philadelphia. Salesman Karn, who also holds (with Mr. Sims, Oswald Jacoby, and David Burnstine of Manhattan's Knickerbocker Whist Club) the Vanderbilt Cup for teams of four and the National "Masters" championship, is the only man in the history of bridge tournaments to have all three major titles at the same time...
...regarded as a nuisance and scornfully called kibitzers (Yiddish colloquial term). Not so were spectators at a game of contract bridge played last week in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt by four experts, under the auspices of the recently organized Bridge Headquarters, Inc. The experts-Willard Karn & fat Philip Hal Sims v. David Burnstine & Oswald Jacoby -played six prearranged hands and a five-game rubber. The 450 spectators, who had paid $1 each to be admitted, sat in comfortable chairs, watched the play on a Scoreboard erected near the bridge table...