Word: zedtwitz
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...boss for West Germany, and it put the finger on Russia's popular press attaché in Bonn, Aleksandr Bogomolov, 46, as Vorontsov's successor. It also made much of his close friendship with the Krupp group's press chief, Count Georg-Volkmar Zedtwitz-Arnim...
...best players by & large are those who apply new bidding methods to years of bidding skill. Year in & year out, Life Masters Charles Goren, Howard Schencken, Sidney Silodor, Waldemar von Zedtwitz and B. Jay Becker dominate the tournament-bridge world...
...knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close to losing when, on the next to the last deal, two members of the team went down 200 points on a vulnerable four-spade...
Both sides were vulnerable. At the table at which Lochridge & Frey were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt, Lochridge & Frey reached a contract of six hearts which Mr. Lochridge (East) failed to make by one trick. While von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt were thus earning their side 100 points, their partners were doing even better. At the table where Karn (East) & Sims were playing Burnstine & Schenken, the bidding also reached six hearts but Mr. Karn set out for his contract more shrewdly than Mr. Lochridge had done in the same situation. When Mr. Burnstine (North) played the queen of diamonds on the dummy...
...downfall of the Culbertsons. Mrs. Ely Culbertson. her invisible eyebrows arched more coolly than ever, was playing with William J. Huske, Samuel Fry Jr. and Louis H. Watson against the Sims-Vanderbilt team. The match hung on the last hand at the table where Watson & Fry were playing von Zedtwitz & Vanderbilt (who puts his cards down so deliberately that his table almost always finishes last). When Lieut. Alfred M. Gruenther, who referees all important bridge games, cried: "Von Zedtwitz has the contract at five diamonds," fat Hal Sims shook his shaggy head and groaned: "It can't be done...