Background
Morehead, Albert Hodges was born on August 7, 1909 in Chattanooga. Son of Albert Hodges and Bianca (Noa) Morehead.
Morehead, Albert Hodges was born on August 7, 1909 in Chattanooga. Son of Albert Hodges and Bianca (Noa) Morehead.
Student Harvard College, 1925-1927.
In newspaperwork, since 1922, successively with Lexington (Kentucky) Herald, Chattanooga Times, Chicago Daily News, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Newton (Massachusetts) Town Crier. Bridge editor New York Times, since 1935. Staff writer The Bridge World magazine, since 1932, editor, 1934-1938, public 1943-1946.
Staff writer Redbook magazine, 1943-1945, Coronet, 1945-1947, Cosmopolitan, 1948-1952.
Editor games Encyclopedia British, 1945-1957. Consultant on games United States Playing Card Company, G. & C. Merriam Company, P. F. Collier & Son.
Columnist King Features Syndicate, 1949-1954. Vice president Kem Playing Cards, Incorporated., 1934-1937, John C. Winston Company, 1946-1948.
President American Contract Bridge League, 1943, Chairman of the Board, 1944-1945.
Chairman National Lexicographic Board, Limited. Editor-in-chief New American Dictionaries. Wonder Book Cyclopedia, 1953.
Illustrated Children’s Encyclopedia, 1954.
Home Library Encyclopedia, 1955-1956. Bible Story Library, 1956.
Illustrated World Encyclopedia, 1958-1959. Literary Treasures, 1958, Roget’s College Thesaurus, 1958.
Roget’s Unabridged Thesaurus, 1962.
Author: The Modern Hoyle, 1943. Official Rules of Card Games, 1945-1963. Also over seventy other books
Member A.S.C.A.P., Sons of the American Revolution Clubs: Regency, Cavendish, Whist, Friars’ (New York City).
Married Loy Claudon, January 21, 1939. Children: Andrew, Philip.