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...bridge match ever held. Manhattan card sharps could recall no card contest of any kind quite like it. Though bridge is a four-handed game, this match will be essentially between Sidney S. Lenz, long-recognized bridge authority and Ely Culbertson, young, brilliant, individualistic and-to conservatives-extremely unpopular contract expert. The match was arranged after months of acrimonious wrangling, conducted with due regard to the publicity value of a grudge fight, but also representing a basic disagreement as to how contract hands should...
...bridge world is currently divided between followers of the Lenz (a version of the Official) system and the Culbertson (or approach-forcing) system of play. Virtually all other bridge experts have joined with Mr. Lenz in approving the Official System, which was adopted largely to eliminate confusion during contract's experimental period. Mr. Culbertson, however, flatly refused to toss his system into the common pot. He has bitterly attacked the Official System and Mr. Lenz as one of its prime movers...
...result must also depend upon the distribution of the cards, the skill of the players. Both Culbertson and Lenz will get a great deal of advertising, and all bridge teachers will profit by having two systems to teach their pupils. Public interest in the match may also assist contract to withstand the onslaught of back: gammon as a leading indoor sport...
Sponsors of Lycoming United were dickering last week for a contract with Mohawk Hudson Power Corp., subsidiary of Niagara Hudson Power, to bring Tioga gas to the Syracuse city limits. Here it would be mixed with manufactured gas before delivery. Natural gas has a higher heat value than manufactured gas but is often disliked by housewives as it carbonizes more quickly, clogs stove burners, dirties pots & pans...
...securely grounded that most people were surprised last week to learn that it, too, had seriously felt Depression, that unless expenses were cut the quality of performances would have to suffer. Metropolitan artists behaved then in a manner worthy of the Company's proud traditions. Regardless of his contract, Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza offered to take 10% less salary. Singers followed suit. Metropolitan performances cost from $14,000 to $15,000 apiece. Another help in time of trouble may be the revenue from Saturday matinee broadcasts. Long adamant on the subject of radio, the Metropolitan has at last succumbed...