Talk:The Bridge World

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I'm (perhaps inordinately) proud of this email, a response to a note I sent Jeff that the article on TBW had been posted:

Dear Conrad,

Thank you for your letter and for your herculean effort in putting such a complete

item on Wikipedia.

In a quick read-through, I noticed only a few tiny technicalities that might be corrected: (1) The Bridge World is the oldest *continuously published* magazine of its kind (not the oldest by date). (2) Albert H. Morehead was the editor briefly (between Culbertson and Moyse). (3) Mike Becker is now the Problem Editor, thus deeply involved in the MSC, but he has never been a director. (Old-generation guest directors included Kaplan, Morty Rubinow and Bill Grieve.) (4) There are usually three (not two) Swiss matches per year.

All in all, a superb job.

Best wishes,

Jeff Rubens

I made the suggested corrections and wrote back to note that the effort was not at all herculean, but the product of a pleasant weekend afternoon browsing through old issues of BW. Someone who uses phrases like "herculean effort" and "superb job" must be a wonderful bridge partner. Xlmvp 18:29, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I also forgot to commend you for the article Conrad; great job. I know that my words don't have the same weight as Jeff's :-) but nevertheless... Duja 07:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Duja. As I told JocK a while back, I'll take it every time. Xlmvp 15:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)