Here’s my father’s third extant bridge column. It’s one of my favorites, as he loved to quote the first paragraph over and over. I’d forgotten about takeout doubles and overcalls, but it all begins to come back to me now… Mathematical Genius, or, Points Are Points By Jerome J. Schneyer, […]
Here's "On Advice from Mothers", my father's bridge column from May 25, 1967. I'm able to follow most of this, although the nuances of doubles and duplicate bridge are a little beyond me. (NB, the crack about North Dakota is heartfelt; we spent two years in Minot when Dad was […]
This is the earliest of my dad's bridge columns of which I have a copy. First my trancribed (and slightly edited) version, then the original, scanned. Orange Sauce Duck by Jerome J. Schneyer, M.D. Southfield News May 18, 1967 Most bridge players are plagued with maxims that do more toward […]
My father was, among other things, a life master at Contract Bridge. He told me once that, on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, he was sitting in his medical office dealing Bridge hands to himself, because he'd only opened the practice two months before and he hadn't any […]
Kenneth Schneyer 