Talk:Ely Culbertson

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[edit] Way to go...

Ely has been improved recently, but there's still a long way to go. Here are some of the topics that need to be added or expanded:

• 1. The stories in his autobiography of his pre-bridge life.
• 2. His revolutionary bidding ideas.
• 3. His bridge books.
• 4. Matches v. and Sims and Austria.
• 5. The Bridge World and Kem cards.
• 6. His divorce from Josephine
• 7. His peace ideas.
• 8. Assessment of his worth in these various fields.
• 9. Photos, and more photos...

It's interesting, isn't it, that in all these years since the thirties no-one has come anywhere close to him as a publicist for the game. Anyway, there is no-one in bridge history who offers so much material for the budding biographer. Good sources are:

1. Ely's autobiography: The strange lives of one man.
2. John Clay: Culbertson: the man who made contract bridge.
3. David Daniels: The golden age of contract bridge.

Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)