Ely Culbertson

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United States authority on contract bridge whose books helped to popularize the game (1891-1955)

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Charles Henry Goren, Ely Culbertson, Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games, 1961, p. 210 500 is a social card game and was highly popular in the United States until around 1920 when first Auction bridge and then Contract Bridge drove it from favour. Source: Internet

Bridge" – as Ely Culbertson had been in the 1930s. Source: Internet

In this, he was following the practice established by Ely Culbertson in the early 1930s. Source: Internet

The Bridge World monthly magazine, established by Ely Culbertson in 1929, named nine members of its bridge hall of fame including Culbertson from 1964 to 1966, but it never named another. Source: Internet

The great bridge player and popularizer Ely Culbertson described his game as classic and sound with "flashes of brilliance", and said that "You can always judge a man's character by the way he plays cards. Source: Internet

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