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...Battle of the Century." Dismayed by Culbertson's lucrative preeminence, a dozen less publicized experts headed by aging Sidney Lenz banded together to publish an "Official System." Culbertson publicly laid down a challenge: he would bet $10,000 to $1,000 that, in a match of 150 rubbers, he and his wife Josephine, using the Culbertson 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...
...Strange Lives of One Man), founder and president of the peace-minded World Federation Inc.; of a lung congestion; in Brattleboro, Vt. Culbertson introduced new methods of contract bridge, made his name a household word after he parlayed national publicity gained from his six-week tournament with Sydney S. Lenz in 1931 (referee: Lieut. Al Gruenther, now boss of NATO) into one of the large Depression fortunes...
...uproar forced Chancellor Adenauer to call off his plans for the information ministry. But last week the government quietly announced the formation of a "press coordinating committee" under Christian-Democratic Deputy Otto Lenz, who had been scheduled to head the original ministry of information. All over Germany this week, the free press locked arms to prevent the government from slipping through the back door what it had not succeeded in bringing in through the front...
...found cause for grievance in some recent autocratic Adenauer actions: ¶ He let it be known that Germany's combined labor union movement (DGB) should reorganize itself because, in his opinion, it had violated its constitutional neutrality in favoring a Socialist victory. ¶ He supported State Secretary Otto Lenz's scheme for a new Ministry of Information, backed down only after the press fiercely attacked it as too reminiscent of Goebbelsism. ¶He indicated that he would reward Opportunist Waldemar Kraft's new BHE (Refugee Party) with one or two Cabinet jobs if it "behaved properly." With...
...Lenz's appeal for a hearing had originally been granted by the Board of Higher Education. However, the Queen's College Administrative Board refused to allow the hearing on the grounds that Lenz had superceded the Board's authority by appealing to the State Education Commission for a review of his case. A spokesman for the Administrative Board said, "The case is out of our hands...