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...such, are acrimonious, sedentary, conceited, unhappy, mercenary, preoccupied and futile. The better bridge players they may be, the more disagreeable they can become and the truth of this contention was needlessly demonstrated again last week in a bitter controversy between foremost U. S. authorities on Contract Bridge-Sidney Lenz, Milton C. Work, R. R. Richards, E. V. Shepard, Walter F. Wyman, and Ely Culbertson...
...quiet, smoky room in Manhattan, 32 of the foremost bridge-players of the U. S. met in fours last week to play for the Harold S. Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant...
Wilbur Cherrier Whitehead is not the only famed bridge professional. There are also Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson,* Milton C. Work, Sidney S. Lenz, E. V. Shepard. They are Whitehead's friends, not his rivals. They call him "Whitey." His position is authoritative. Other experts have at times disowned or retracted strategies they once commenced. Not Whitehead. He is conservative, a grandfather. He comes from Columbus, used to be president of Simplex Automobile Co. when it made cars you could not wear out. The word "Simplex" was cut deep on a triangle of brass on the blunt bonnet...
Offer-by Thomas Meighan, to pay the railroad fare of any two "good" bridge players who would accompany himself and wife from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Meighan, an expert, has played with such famed bridgers as Milton C. Work and Sidney Lenz. Cinema people also consider Bebe Daniels capable of earning her living at the game...
...goes through the other months with the following among others, contributing their specialities--poems, wit, essays, drawings, criticism: John Macy, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker, George Jean Nathan, Phillips Russell, A.H. Woods, Ida M. Tarbell, Sidney S. Lenz, Jane Cowl, H.L. Mencken, and Florenz Ziegfeld...