Career
In August 1953, Rosen and Milton Ellenby made the pages of Life magazine as the youngest winners of the von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs. (annual from 1930). He wrote, "The game holds a beguiling interest to most people because it is undoubtedly the most challenging of all card games, combining skill in bidding, play of the hand and also, the subtle art of gamesmanship." In 1965, Rosen was on the Chicago Team that captured the Sports Illustrated Trophy. Bridge guru Charles Goren called Rosen the "star performer of the Chicago team" Rosen worked as an options trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange before retiring in 1994.
He lives in Highland Park, Illinois.
Rosen was inducted by the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2014 as a recipient of the von Zedtwitz Award. In a 1983 column, Alan Truscott of The New York Times called Bill Rosen " of the greatest names in the game".
Bob Hamman, one of the world"s greatest players, named Rosen as one of "three players that I"d call really intimidating – if you could see some obscure way declarer could work it out (to make his contract), you had to be afraid he would work it out." Awards and honors Wins Runners-up Bermuda Bowl (1) 1955 North American Bridge Championships (1) Master Mixed Teams (1) 1965.