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...months since she had come to the U.S., timid, troubled Ava Miller had tried almost every way she knew to find her one remaining relative, her brother-in-law's sister, who had been in New York City for 14 years. Ava knew that Anna Sobel had married an American doctor, but she did not know his name. Last week, 28-year-old Ava, a refugee from the Nazi invaders of Poland, visited the vast, murmurous city room of the New York Times, looking for help. It was her last hope...
From both sides of the border, top-ranking bridge players arrived in Toronto last week for the Toronto Whist Club's annual championship tournament. To run the show, the Whist Club imported Al Sobel of New York, the American Contract Bridge League's national tournament director. At headquarters in the Royal York Hotel, Director Sobel accepted 305 entrants. But he balked on the 306th. No. 306 was Leon Beard, 43, a Trinidad civil servant studying surveying at the University of Toronto. Reason for rejection: Leon Beard is a Negro...
...good bridge player, Beard had tried to enter the tournament at the invitation of the Whist Club. But when he showed up at the Royal York he was told first that all the tables were filled. Then he was told the truth. Al Sobel had refused "to direct the tournament if Beard played." Reason, according to Sobel: the A.C.B.L.'s "regulations state clearly that . . . colored people are not allowed to take part. . . . Rules are rules." The Whist Club thought it over and stuck by Sobel, because it did not want to lose the prestige that came with his officiating...
...Next day Sobel heard what Toronto thought of his action. Said the Globe & Mail: "It is intolerable that the color bar should be imported. . . ." With an eye on the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the Telegram added: "The [Whist Club] players . . . should consider whether at this point in the course of human events it has not become necessary to dissolve-the bonds which have connected them with the [A.C.B.L.]." Said one of the tournament's players: "[Sobel] should know the meaning of persecution." Snapped John McBirney, president of the University of Toronto student council: "They may have that sort...
...husband of Mrs. Helen Sobel, the U.S. top woman bridge expert...