Word: lenz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yule Hog. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Audrey Lenz, 24, sued for divorce, charged that her three children had to depend on the St. Vincent de Paul Society for Christmas presents, while her husband, John, 28 bought himself an electric train...
...Battle of the Century." Dismayed by Culbertson's lucrative preeminence, a dozen less publicized experts headed by aging Sidney Lenz banded together to publish an "Official System." Culbertson publicly laid down a challenge: he would bet $10,000 to $1,000 that, in a match of 150 rubbers, he and his wife Josephine, using the Culbertson system, would beat Lenz and any partner, using the Official System. Under Culbertson's relentless public needling, Lenz reluctantly accepted the challenge, chose as his partner hefty Oswald Jacoby, later famed as an expert on canasta and poker as well as bridge...
Billed as the "Bridge Battle of the Century," the four-week Lenz-Culbertson match was the most publicized card joust in history. The wire services had top reporters covering the match from start to finish, papers put out extras on results, and readers who could not tell a doubleton from a double followed the daily point score. Lenz and Jacoby got off to an early lead, but at the end of the 150th rubber the Culbertson partnership was ahead by 8,980 points, and Lenz paid up. That ended any small remaining doubt about whether Culbertson...
...Strange Lives of One Man), founder and president of the peace-minded World Federation Inc.; of a lung congestion; in Brattleboro, Vt. Culbertson introduced new methods of contract bridge, made his name a household word after he parlayed national publicity gained from his six-week tournament with Sydney S. Lenz in 1931 (referee: Lieut. Al Gruenther, now boss of NATO) into one of the large Depression fortunes...
...uproar forced Chancellor Adenauer to call off his plans for the information ministry. But last week the government quietly announced the formation of a "press coordinating committee" under Christian-Democratic Deputy Otto Lenz, who had been scheduled to head the original ministry of information. All over Germany this week, the free press locked arms to prevent the government from slipping through the back door what it had not succeeded in bringing in through the front...