Talk:The Bridge World

message: I'm (perhaps inordinately) proud of this email, a response to a note I sent Jeff that the article on TBW had been posted:
:Dear Conrad,
:Thank you for your letter and for your herculean effort in putting such a complete
item on Wikipedia.
:In a quick read-through, I noticed only a few tiny technicalities that might be corrected: (1) The Bridge World is the oldest *continuously published* magazine of its kind (not the oldest by date). (2) Albert H. Morehead was the editor briefly (between Culbertson and Moyse). (3) Mike Becker is now the Problem Editor, thus deeply involved in the MSC, but he has never been a director. (Old-generation guest directors included Kaplan, Morty Rubinow and Bill Grieve.) (4) There are usually three (not two) Swiss matches per year.
   
:All in all, a superb job.
:Best wishes,
:Jeff Rubens
I made the suggested corrections and wrote back to note that the effort was not at all herculean, but the product of a pleasant weekend afternoon browsing through old issues of BW. Someone who uses phrases like "herculean effort" and "superb job" must be a wonderful bridge partner. Xlmvp 18:29, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also forgot to commend you for the article Conrad; great job. I know that my words don't have the same weight as Jeff's :-) but nevertheless... Duja 07:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Duja. As I told JocK a while back, I'll take it every time. Xlmvp 15:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments from Jeff Ruben

message: I raise the question whether it is appropriate to mention as a BW author "E. S. Baer," a pen name of Edgar Kaplan, which appears to have been used once, in criticizing an anonymous book on that years' world championship. One might as well mention "Saxon Fairwood" (Sheinwold) or "Bigelow Orange" (Moyse) as separate people.  
Alvin P. Bluthman
apbluthman@aol.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.56.203 (talk) 21:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Or, for that matter, Turner Hodges (A. H. Morehead, whose middle name was Hodges). I don't think that Baer's secret identity was publicly revealed until Jeff Rubens' remembrance, following Kaplan's death, many years after the original Bit. You raise a nice point. If Voltaire had written an article for TBW and Wikipedia mentioned that the contribution was written by François-Marie Arouet, someone would very likely raise the opposite objection. (Okay, I agree that the analogy is inexact.) At any rate, if the concern is a strong one, why not add a parenthetical comment identifying Kaplan? If you do so, might want to consider mentioning another of his noms de plume, Moneybags. TurnerHodges (talk) 13:36, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Aliases

message: I'm going to revert the edit of "lebensohl" to "Lebensohl" because TBW, which is the subject of the article after all, un-capitalized it thus. The main entry for the convention makes reference to Ken Lebensold's disclaimer (but fails to mention that KL went on to say that he didn't think much of the convention itself, either). As a result, Augie and George Boehm decided to put the name in lower case. If it has since become more standard to upper-case the word, I haven't seen evidence of that. TurnerHodges (talk) 15:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See more recent edits on the subject at Lebensohl.  Newwhist (talk) 15:33, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  lebensohl 

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