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Face that Has Made £1,000,000

Up Bridge "My Wife Made Me Take Up

Career," Says Man Who Built A Business House of Cards

By ANDREW KIDD MR. ELY CULBERT-physles." SON DEALT THE CARDS AND PICKED UP HIS HAND.

"Yes, I have built up a £1,000,000 business on pack of cards," lie sald, and then...

"One spade."

a

the public. an ghost, an iden."

abstraction,

Ho swept up the last trick and pulled the scoring block towards him.

"Game and rubber," said Mr. Culbertson. "All right,, don't ba alarmed, I never play for 'money although I have made thou- sands of pounds out of cards. "But here's a golden rule:

"It you must play for money, don't play to win. Play not to lose. Take care of your Irsecs and your wlanings will look after themselves."

Billed again.

of our shares will revert to a speelaltion. complete even to a research sclentine foundation for research in department. Three no trumps.

Six experts are employed con-

Automatically is. hands strayed tinuously in the research department, towards the pack and he shuffled the He atacked up another trick,

The future of the Culbertsons working out modifications of the cards, flipping over the little pieces Limited--and it is now a corporation Culbertson system and testing un-of pasleboard that had made for him fruited usual probabilities in the fall of the £1,000,000.

controlling o number

ilability companies is thus consuli-cards. dated," said Mr. Culbertson finessing my only honour.

"Incidentally, that king of yours fell because you underrated the

He cleaned up the remainder of intelligence of your opponent. That the hand while he told me of the is the second thing to remember in

bridge." *revenue resources. corporation's

He smiled and paused for They include:

breath "It costs me approxi- Bo £8,000 a year to matoly polite," he continued after ke had stacked up another two tricks.

I glanced nervously at my hand and then at the grim Sale of patented chemical-

composition playing cards '£50,000 "playing" expression of Mr. Cul-Books on bridge (America bertson. We were playing inj Mr. Culbertson's room in London hotel.

£25,000

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and England) Foreign translation of bridge

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"Two hearts," I said. "Hm" murmured the who has made millions bridge-Two bridge magazines

conscious, and, I went. cold.

Limited," 1"The Culbertsons he continued evenly, while made frantic attempts to reassess my hand, "have a gross annual income averaging £150,000. One year it was as high as £200,000. "I am president and managing di- rector of the corporation; my wife is vice-president. We are employes of the corporation, and are both pald an annual salary of £1,000 plus ex-

Two spades."

penses...、

I took a look at the maestro, "No bid." I said, and asked a of the question about the future Culbertson corporation. (Mrs. Cal- bertson has gone to Reno to seek a divorce.)

"Your lead," said Mr. Culbertson

to my partner. We shall continue

in our positions with the corporation after the divorce....

AN EQUAL PARTNER

"I have made a settlement out of one- court, voluntarily transferring

half of my Interests and holdings to Mrs, Culbertson and for

our wa

children. Mrs. Culbertson will re-d main an equal partner in the busi- ness."

Mr. Culbertson took the trick, saying kindly:

"Mast I tell you that the first thing to learn in bridge is obser vallon? And. simultaneously, the ability to draw inferences. Please watch every card that is played,"

He led a card.

"I has been arranged that by an leave the irrevocable will i must second half of my holdings to Mrs. Culbertson upon condition that the children, when they reach their ma- jority, shall receive not more than £80 a month.

"King," said Mr. Culbertson to dummy. "On our death the balanco

ENGLAND HAS MORE BIGAMISTS

London, Jan. 1. Bigamy is apparently increas- ing throughout Britain.

According to Mr. Justice Charles, Judge of the King's bench division since 1928, bigamy this year is "an epidemic as bad as foot-and-mouth

Stativiles show that except for the war and post-war periods, bigamy is commoner now than at any other time in history. Nearly every one of the 20 country assizes had at least one bigamy case during the autumn session, while the Old Bailey alone listed D cases for the previous period. Several cases of bigamy in rural districts came to light when guilty women presented themselves to the court for the purpose of confessing. Percentages indicate that there are woman 3 men to every Figures for 1935, the last completed casc compared record, showed 205 with 250 for 1934 and 229 for 1933. Figures since those published in 1935 are expected to show a steady increase both for 1030 and 1037,

But they are not likely to over- shadow the four "war years," 1915 to

Thaso

bigamer 1919.

years averaged 405 per year whereas the four previous years had averaged only 120 per, year.

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Another huge increase in bigamy followed the war. Yearly averages for the period 1920 to 1924 were set

Then at 500.

followed sharp decline.

According to the authorities, many of the bigamy cases during the war were due to hasty marriages, tome times after only a few days' friend- ship. Post-war cases are attributed to unsettled conditions and undis- elplined spirits.

But to-day bigamy cases can bo generally divided into two groups. Firstly, men who make marriages a "racket," purely for the money in- volved; and secondly, those who can- not afford the costs of divorce, and who therefore take a chance on not being detected.

More lenient treatment of bigumists since the war is also thought to help Increase the number of offenders. In 1935 exactly-00-bigamists - werg - re- -{ Icased on their own recogalsance.

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ILLNESS

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Very often period of con- valescence is much more critical than the actual illness that preceded it. Your whole body is left in a

state of complete exhaustion You

I glanced apprehensively towards have no strength to combat any Mr. Culbertson's partner, but the renewed attacks. bridge wizard was not thinking of the table. He explained:

"We have

of 1,000 an average £10,000 letters per day from bridge enthu- 1,000 sings. Every letter must be an £4,000 swered.

That means a big bli in £3,000 postage, stationery and stenographers' £5,000 salaries,"

£5,000

There is also considerable revenue from bridge clubs up and down the United States.

He totted up the score which had same nearly brought him in the revenue, and then picked up the hand

had dealt. "We employ a large staff at the Culbertsons Limited building in New York.

TASK FOR EXPERTS "There is an elaborate organisa-.|

SELLING "GHOST" Before Mr. Culbertson startled the world with his bridge system he was struggling teacher of psychology, Then he met and married Mrs. Culbertson.

"My wife, belleving that there were too many psychology professora and too few good bridge masters, persuaded me to take up bridge us a career. I did.

have accomplished the seemingly impossible-selling to

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