• Oswald "Ozzie", "Jake" Jacoby (December 8, 1902 – June 27, 1984) was an American contract bridge player and author, considered one of the greatest bridge...
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  • article by Oswald Jacoby and have gained widespread international acceptance by duplicate and rubber bridge players alike. In the article, Jacoby gave his...
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    Vegas and other gambling venues. (Ungar eventually switched to poker.) Oswald Jacoby, best known as a contract bridge and backgammon champion, also played...
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    Hickman (1927–2006) American actuarial educator, researcher, and author  Oswald Jacoby (1902–1984) American actuary best known as a contract bridge player...
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  • bridge literature, the convention is said to have been developed by Oswald Jacoby. However, credit for its development has also been attributed to Leo...
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  • Heinrich Jacoby (1889–1964), German educator James Jacoby (1933–1991), American bridge player (as Jim) and writer, son of Oswald Jacoby James Alfred Jacoby (1852–1909)...
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  • actuary in the United Kingdom Henrik Palmstrøm (1900–1998), Norwegian Oswald Jacoby (1902–1984), American, youngest person to pass four examinations of...
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    seen in use at officially sanctioned tournaments. The "Jacoby rule", named after Oswald Jacoby, allows gammons and backgammons to count for their respective...
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  • contract bridge team founded in 1931 by P. Hal Sims, consisting of Sims, Oswald Jacoby, Willard S. Karn, and David Burnstine The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...
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  • James Oswald Jacoby (April 4, 1933 – February 8, 1991) was an American bridge player and writer. He played as Jim Jacoby but he wrote books as James and...
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    Search for Her Family's Buried Past. (Robert Jacoby's brother was the great bridge player Oswald Jacoby.) Her book Freethinkers: A History of American...
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    terrific cards I ever saw. There is a lucky fellow if ever I saw one." (2) Oswald Jacoby reported a deal that Kaufman played marvelously in 1952, after which...
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  • [53] 2010 Paul Hodge † von Zedtwitz [54] 1997 James (Jim) Jacoby † Open [55] 1965 Oswald Jacoby † Open [56] 1996 Eddie Kantar † Open [57] [58] [59] 1995...
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  • no championship 1970 no championship 1971 Tim Holland Las Vegas 1972 Oswald Jacoby Las Vegas 1973 Carol Crawford Las Vegas 1974 Claude Beer Las Vegas 1975...
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    bridge player's worst crime of gloating when he wins." Bridge expert Oswald Jacoby frequently participated in the White House games and said, "The President...
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  • (alphabetically) David Burnstine, Michael T. Gottlieb, Oswald Jacoby and Howard Schenken. The Four Aces' book (Jacoby may have written most or all of it) gives the...
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  • 1902) June 16 – Lew Andreas, basketball coach (b. 1895) June 27 – Oswald Jacoby, bridge player (b. 1902) June 30 – Lillian Hellman, playwright (b. 1905)...
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    retired Trieste banker and a bobsled enthusiast". The American star Oswald Jacoby missed at least the opening night. Ο θάνατος του Σοφοκλή Βενιζέλου,...
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    Euler, Investigations on new type of magic square William H. Benson and Oswald Jacoby, "New Recreations with Magic Squares". (New York: Dover, 1976). Andrews...
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  • Commission, which stipulates the rules of bridge. His main partner was Oswald Jacoby. Like his father before him, he was also a chess player. North American...
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  • Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby, Willard Karn, P. Hal Sims S. Garton Churchill, Travers LeGros, Dorothy Roberts, Phillip Stockvis 1932 Michael T. Gottlieb, Oswald Jacoby...
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  • convention is uncertain. Some players have attributed it to Oswald Jacoby, of Jacoby Transfer and Jacoby 2NT fame, while others refer to it as "Castlebury" (or...
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  • (Master Mixed Teams) in 1968 playing with Helen Sobel Smith, Oswald Jacoby, and Jim Jacoby. She died on March 19, 2003. He graduated from Yale University...
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  • and Michael Gottlieb. Lenz chose as his partner emerging great Oswald Jacoby, but Jacoby quit about two-thirds of the way through the match, being dissatisfied...
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  • Goren Alfred M. Gruenther Ranik Halle Johannes Hammerich Ernst Heldring Oswald Jacoby Eric Jannersten Alvin Landy Alphonse Moyse, Jr. Carlo Alberto Perroux...
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  • Howard Schenken 2/3. Huber Boscowitz, Oswald Jacoby, Willard Karn, P. Hal Sims 1931 David Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby, Willard Karn, P. Hal Sims Walter Malowan...
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  • to become the Open Swiss with the Jacoby Trophy awarded to the winners. The trophy is named for Oswald and Jim Jacoby --- one of the premier father-son...
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  • Winfield S. Liggett, Frances Newman, George Unger David Burnstine, Oswald Jacoby, Willard Karn, P. Hal Sims 1932 B. Jay Becker, S. Garton Churchill,...
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    Henriette Jacoby is a 1918 German silent film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Mechthildis Thein, Conrad Veidt and Leo Connard. It is the sequel...
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    was one important book. The Four Aces System of Contract Bridge, by Oswald Jacoby, Burnstine, Michael T. Gottlieb, and Howard Schenken, 302 pp. (New York:...
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