Background
Ely Culbertson was born July 22, 1891, in Poyana de Vervilao, Romania, of American parents.
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Ely Culbertson was born July 22, 1891, in Poyana de Vervilao, Romania, of American parents.
He was educated at Geneva University and at L'École des Sciences Économiques et Politiques in Paris.
Culbertson early became expert at Contract Bridge, which replaced Auction Bridge in popularity. In 1929 he founded the magazine Bridge World and from the early 1930s played tournament Bridge, lectured and published books on Bridge, and became a syndicated Bridge columnist. He also published books on his bidding system and on Canasta, a card game of the Rummy family.
In the late 1930s the threat of war led him to abandon Bridge and resume his political activities. He founded the World Federation, Inc. , and in 1946 the Citizens Committee for United Nations Reform, which advocated world peace by means of an international policing organization. He wrote Total Peace (1943) and Must We Fight Russia? (1946). His autobiography, The Strange Lives of One Man, was published in 1940. He died in Brattleboro, Vermont, December 27, 1955.
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In 1923 he married Josephine Murphy, a leading bridge player and columnist, and the two formed an outstandingly successful bridge partnership.