Invitation Command
Scheduled for next week at Manhattan's Hotel Chatham was the beginning of the most advertised, most bitter, most ambitious 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...
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