No contestant in the opening round of last week's Florida State Bridge Tournament was more cheerful than Frederick Bernard Snite Jr. True, he could not lift a hand to play his cards, because he was paralyzed, but he told the nurse who held them what he wanted to play. He saw the cards only by reflection in the mirror over his face. For 18 years and seven months, since he was stricken with polio, Fred Snite had been bound to an iron lung.
Bridgeplayer Snite, 44, did not show up for the tournament's second day. In the West Palm Beach hotel room...
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