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A perfect Yarborough
Yarborough: A hand containing no card higher than a nine. Harold was bored. All evening he got terrible cards, he did not get to declare a single hand. His lovely partner tried to cheer him up: “Unlucky in cards means Lucky in love”, she said with an encouraging smile. Harold didn’t find that comforting. He was…
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Agatha Christie’s Bridge Game
Agatha Christie was born as Clarissa Agatha Miller, and having taken her first husband Archibald’s surname, she completed her first detective novel “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” in 1916. It was only published four years afterwards after six rejections, introducing Detective Poirot in the second chapter. Before this, Christie was a nurse – and little…
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A View of Vanderbilt
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt was born in 1884, the grandson of the famed magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, and can today be called one of the most influential figures ever in bridge. Even though “train” was reportedly one of my first words – thanks to the view of a railway from the house – I didn’t hear the…