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...episode had its effect on Queens. Harold Lenz dean of students, declared that there was "a state of hysteria" on the campus, and that some outsiders had begun to clamor for the banning of two more student groups, the Young Progressive Citizens of America and the Students for Democratic Action...
Eighteen out of 20 college administrators and faculty representatives testified against it. Lenz, student dean at Queens, opposed the amendment strongly...
Artillerist Gruenther first came to public attention eleven years ago, when the public was more interested in bridge games than in soldiers. Lieut. Gruenther used to drive the 35 miles daily from West Point to Manhattan to referee bloodthirsty bridge games between Ely Culbertson and Sidney Lenz. Early in the morning, at the end of the matches, before the reporters could write their 2,000 daily words, he tumbled on to a mattress in the back of his car and fell sound asleep while Mrs. Gruenther drove back to the Military Academy. By 8 o'clock he was teaching...
...Vogi, Yale 5 4 6 14 Pearson, Dartmouth 3 6 1 13 Parmer, Dartmouth 3 5 2 12 Hahn, Pennsylvania 3 4 4 12 Owen, Yale 5 6 0 12 Busse, Princeton 1 5 1 11 Cerrone, Columbia 2 4 2 10 Romano, Harvard 1 3 4 10 Lenz, Pennsylvania 3 3 4 10 Soleliac, Pennsylvania 3 3 4 10 Winston, Princeton 1 5 0 10 Ingley, Yale 2 4 2 10 Maack, Columbia 2 3 3 9 McIlvennan, Columbia 2 3 3 9 Anderson, Yale 4 4 1 9 Else, Dartmouth 3 3 1 7 Bartlett, Princeton...
According to Ely Culbertson, more words were printed about the Culbertson-Lenz bridge battle in 1931 than about Lindbergh's flight to Paris or any murder except the Hall-Mills case; and his Contract Bridge Blue Book and its Summary (written by Mrs. Culbertson) are, next to the Bible, the all-time non-fiction bestsellers (1,300,000 copies). Thanks to an incredible talent for cards and for self-publicizing, Ely Culbertson became the most curiously famous...