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    Alan Fraser Truscott (16 April 1925 – 4 September 2005) was a British-American bridge player, writer, and editor. He wrote the daily bridge column for...
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  • 2009. "Bridge: United States Team Gains a Strong Victory in Israel". Alan Truscott. The New York Times. July 20, 1981. "Reisinger Winners" (PDF). American...
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  • Truscott may refer to: Harold Truscott (1914–1992), English composer Mark Truscott (1970– ), poet Alan Truscott (1925–2005), bridge writer and player...
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  • popular bidding conventions; indeed, a day after writing his obituary Alan Truscott called him "the player best known in the world". Stayman was born in...
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    Society. pp. 67–76. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Alan Truscott (2 February 1992). "Bridge". The New York Times. John Collinson (9 July...
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  • 1976, 1984, 1994 and 2001. The Executive Editor for the first six was Alan Truscott, bridge editor of The New York Times. For the fourth through sixth editions...
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    Grand Master within the World Bridge Federation. "In a 60-year career", Alan Truscott wrote in a bridge column 15 weeks after her death, "she had far more...
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    theoretician. In a bridge column three months after Ottlik's death, Alan Truscott placed him "among the strongest candidates" for "the bridge writer with...
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  • orchestrator and lyricist Mark Shivas, film and television producer Alan Truscott, bridge player, columnist, author William Waterhouse, bassoonist and...
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    to Pierre Albarran among contemporary French players, according to Alan Truscott. Beside the national teams at contract bridge, they both played on a...
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  • a daughter, and three stepchildren. In 1963, "with assistance from Alan Truscott" Wei developed the China bidding system, later called the Precision...
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  • bidding, in his 1929 book Contract Bridge. "Bridge" (untitled column). Alan Truscott. The New York Times. May 26, 1994. Retrieved 2014-11-16. The column...
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    Keith William "Bluey" Truscott, DFC & Bar (17 May 1916 – 28 March 1943) was a World War II ace fighter pilot and Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne...
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  • bridge. It is a strong club system developed in 1969 for C. C. Wei by Alan Truscott, and used by Taiwan teams in 1969. Their success in placing second at...
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    Cup tournament) and he remained the bridge editor until succeeded by Alan Truscott in January 1964. According to her obituary in the New York Herald Tribune...
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  • org). Retrieved 2014-12-15. "ACBL Hall of Fame". Francis, Henry G.; Truscott, Alan F.; Francis, Dorthy A., eds. (2001). The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge...
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    wife Maria Antoinetta, one daughter, one son, and four grandchildren. Alan Truscott described him as "a cheerful extrovert" and "normally unflappable at...
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  • Marx, Contract Bridge Journal, September 1946. "The Roots of Stayman", Alan Truscott, The New York Times, April 3, 1983. Based on standard hand evaluation...
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  • Linda Klassen Toronto—Danforth: Masood Atchekzai Waterloo—Wellington: Gord Truscott Willowdale: Rina Morra York North: Simone Williams York South—Weston: Mariangela...
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  • Moments of Sporting Chivalry By Max Davidson Truscott (2002), pages 144-152. Frey, Richard L.; Truscott, Alan F.; Cohen, Ben; Barrow, Rhoda, eds. (1967)...
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    play and methods for successful play of card, dice, and board games. Alan Truscott wrote 20 years after his death that Foster "had been one of the great...
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    interests of the game", in the words of New York Times bridge editor Alan Truscott—primarily the "sordid picture of top-level bridge" presented by Reese...
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  • – R. S. R. Fitter, naturalist and author, (born 1913) 4 September – Alan Truscott, bridge player (born 1930) 7 September – L. J. K. Setright, motoring...
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  • attorney and real estate investor or, in the words of his obituary by Alan Truscott, "a real estate lawyer ... assembling properties for development". He...
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  • Toronto: Master Point Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-1-894154-21-5. Truscott, Alan; Truscott, Dorothy (2002). The New York Times Bridge Book: An Acetodal History...
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    with her husband Alan Truscott. Her 1966 book, Bid Better, Play Better is considered a classic and was progressively updated. Truscott was born as Dorothy...
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  • The New York Times Alan Truscott, was put into play in 2006 by the United States Playing Card Company. "ACBL - NABC Winners: Truscott USPC Senior Swiss"...
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  • than any national team representing USA, Canada, Mexico, or Bermuda. Alan Truscott wrote "exactly half a century" without specifying exactly to the calendar...
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    org). Retrieved 2014-05-29. "Bridge: Paying Tribute to an Expert". Alan Truscott. The New York Times. January 5, 1964; p. X10.   Morehead was US delegate...
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  • "Barry Crane Barry Crane, Bridge Expert, Found Slain in Los Angeles". Alan Truscott. The New York Times. July 7, 1985. Page 18. Quote: "found slain Friday"...
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