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...fasten their attention on one particular story which has a mass appeal and then deluge the public with columns of news about it. They concentrate on one thing at a time, disregarding the meanwhile all other mass interest stories that may come along. For over five weeks the Culbertson-Lenz bridge rodeo held its position as the most consistent daily front page story. Then it stopped. But before city editors had the time to cease yawning, they had thrust at them what promises to be one of the most stupendous news story of the year...
Fourth Night Cards favored Lenz & Jacoby (203 aces & kings to 157) as they had through the whole match?636 to 596. Mr. Culbertson prefaced play, as he had each night previously, by saying to his opponents: "Have you changed your systems?" Said Mrs. Culbertson: "That's getting a little monotonous, Ely." Disappointed because the conflicting elements of the Culbertson and Lenz systems had been infrequently demonstrated so far, experts were pleased at the first Culbertson two-demand bid, which produced a small slam in clubs...
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...cards for the Culbertsons, even with a brilliant victory in the 28th rubber, left Lenz & Jacoby 5,650 points ahead. Ely Culbertson refused a $250 bet offered by Mr. Lenz for a friend...
...Grinnell, Iowa, two barbers. Ed Jansen and John Ditzler, organized a ten-day, highpoint craps-match, patterned after the Lenz-Culbertson bridge match, to demonstrate the respective merits of the "African twist" v. "cotton roll." Late results, posted on the barber shop window, showed that Barber Ditzler, using the cotton roll, was 17 passes up on Barber Jansen...