Elie Almon Culbertson (July 22, 1891 – December 27, 1955), known as Ely Culbertson, was an American contract bridge entrepreneur and personality dominant...
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places: Culbertson, Montana Culbertson, Nebraska In people: Culbertson (name) Ely Culbertson (1891-1955), American contract bridge player, author and promoter...
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The Culbertson 4-5 notrump is a slam-seeking convention in the game of contract bridge. It was devised in the early 1930s by Ely Culbertson. Most four-notrump...
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Callaway Golf Company Eliezer Ely Capacio (1955–2014), Philippine Basketball Association player, coach and executive Ely Culbertson (1891–1955), American contract...
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13 years in Philadelphia. The growing fame of contract bridge player Ely Culbertson, however, prompted Goren to abandon his original career choice to pursue...
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Bridge Battle of the Century (redirect from Culbertson-Lenz match)
given to a celebrated 1931–1932 contract bridge challenge match between Ely Culbertson and Sidney Lenz and their partners. The match pitted Culberson's bidding...
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bridge trophy competed for in 1933 and 1934 between UK and U.S.A.; see Ely Culbertson Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, law firm Schwob, a surname This disambiguation...
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1895-1954," database with images, Ely Culbertson, 1932; National Archives and Records Administration "Culbertson, Josephine". Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved...
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Druids in Ulster, Northern Ireland Edgar Culbertson, U.S. Coast Guardsman, Coast Guard Medal Recipient Ely Culbertson, American contract bridge player, author...
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Black Lady (section Culbertson's rules (1950))
hearts or the black lady. American author and leading bridge exponent, Ely Culbertson, describes it as "essentially hearts with the addition of the queen...
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Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. (born May 15, 1949) (Capt, USN, Ret.) is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, NASA astronaut...
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continuously published magazine about contract bridge, was founded in 1929 by Ely Culbertson. It has since been regarded as the game's principal journal, publicizing...
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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...
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Archived from the original on 2024-09-21. Retrieved 2024-09-25. Culbertson, Ely, Culbertson on Canasta: a Complete Guide for Beginners and Advanced Players...
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both played on a 1933 team that hosted an American foursome led by Ely Culbertson in a long match at "plafond, the French parent of contract bridge, which...
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Madeleine Bartlett. Ely Culbertson, edited by Hubert Phillips 1932. Contract Bridge Blue Book. Faber and Faber. London. Ely Culbertson, Foreword by Hubert...
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emperor of bridge, Ely Culbertson, as Ted Lightner... For a part of the celebrated Battle of the Century match he was Ely Culbertson's partner - it was...
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asking bids and notrump asking bids. Constructed by bridge pioneer Ely Culbertson in the 1940s, they have been superseded by other methods; however, one...
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Glossary of contract bridge terms (section E)
stoppers needed for a notrump game. Culbertson four-five notrump A slam-seeking convention devised by Ely Culbertson, in which a player bids 4NT or 5NT...
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engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp" Douglas Cox, violin maker Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter Doveman (real name Thomas Bartlett)...
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between teams led by Ely Culbertson and Sidney Lenz. A total of 150 rubbers were played, and was ultimately won by the Culbertson team by a margin of 8...
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limit. "Medals". European Bridge League (EBL). Retrieved 2018-07-28. Culbertson, Ely (1935). The Encyclopedia of Bridge. The Bridge World, Inc. (New York)...
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Slam-seeking conventions (section Culbertson 4–5 NT)
queried suit. Asking bids were devised by Alan Moorehead and developed by Ely Culbertson and are an alternative to cuebids. They are still used in some artificial...
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Hoyle's Card Games, ISBN 0-415-00880-8, p. 222 Charles Henry Goren, Ely Culbertson, Goren's Hoyle Encyclopedia of Games, 1961, p. 210 "Company History...
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Hilliard Mixed Pairs (2) 1931, 1939 [clarification needed] Bridge Culbertson, Ely; Culbertson, Josephine; Lightner, Theodore A.; von Zedtwitz, Waldemar (1932)...
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Secrets is the fourth studio album by keyboardist Brian Culbertson released in 1997 on Mesa/Bluemoon/Atlantic Records. The album reached No. 15 on the...
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to expert play (London: B. T. Batsford, 1998) Culbertson's Contract Bridge for Everyone, Ely Culbertson and Mollo (Faber, 1969), 123 pp. – "Revised, edited...
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Century", the Culbertson-Lenz match of 1931–32. This match, in the heyday of contract bridge's golden age of popularity, pitted Ely Culbertson (the greatest...
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deployed this system against Ely Culbertson in the so-called "Bridge Battle of the Century" of 1931. (Whitehead had helped Culbertson during Culberton's early...
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Ernest Howard Culbertson, also known as E. H. Culbertson and Howard Culbertson, (April 29, 1886, New York – July 1972, New York City) was an American newsreel...
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