Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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. Named as referee was Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, a West Point instructor and part-time bridge tournament director who rose to become Supreme Allied Commander in Europe...
...queen, one for a jack. Entranced by the point count's simplicity, Goren devoted numberless hours to expanding the idea into a general bidding method. "It took me about 15 years," he says, "and I had some very expert help." Most valuable helper: Toronto Insurance Executive William M. Anderson, a bridge buff and mathematician...
Said Golden: "It's unbelievable. I guess maybe I'm not dead after...
...Singers are the first reported family in the world with three children so afflicted-which may be the most important clue yet to endocardial fibro-elastosis. One theory so far: it begins developing in the fetus, though nobody knows why. The Singer family recurrence, says Dr. Bernard M. Wagner, a top Seattle heart specialist, "suggests lethal genes, a genetic mutant. This may be a key family in our study." For the stricken Singers last week, it was little comfort, but all they...
...Said Samuel L. Stedman, partner of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "I don't see a major selloff, but this level will tempt a lot of companies into financing, and these rights offerings may take some of the upward pressure from the blue chips. Specialties should move up while the rest of the market churns...