Word: sobel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth two finesses, he carelessly held his hand within easy view of roving eyes. He actually treated kibitzers as humans ("I might as well love them. I'm married to them"), and he went out of his way to describe his partner, a perky strawberry blonde named Helen Sobel, as one of the world's greatest bridge players-which she is. As the tournament neared its end, with tensions and tempers rising, he occasionally took advantage of being dummy to rest his eyes, almost as if snoozing. He was obviously out of his element...
...when the final point-standing was tabulated, Charles Henry Goren, 57, brilliantly aided and abetted by Helen Sobel, had again won one of bridge's most coveted titles. And last week, reflecting on that victory, he finally permitted himself to show the hard competitive instinct that lies close beneath his amiable surface. "I gave my rivals a good swift kick in the stomach," said Charles Goren, "and they hated...
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...terrific sales, Contract Bridge Complete brought the Goren system to expert and beginner alike, placed Charles Goren on the same shaky pedestal from which he had toppled Culbertson. Writer Goren had to maintain his position at the card table, and he did it with the help of Helen Sobel, his partner for 19 years. Goren calls Sobel, fourth-ranking player in total master points (4,198), "the greatest woman bridge player in history" - and few male experts would dispute that opinion...
Life Master Sobel, 48, whose shapely legs won her a job in the chorus line of a Broadway play in 1926, used to wear dark glasses at tournaments to help create a disarming dumb-blonde impression. Deceptively casual at the bridge table, she hums, giggles, makes unfathomable grimaces. Famed for her wariness of peeking opponents, she holds her cards close to her chest, occasionally reaches across the table to push Goren's cards back...