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FEATURED TEACHER: Ed O’Reilly

Club Owner/Bridge Teacher/Columnist
Interviewed by Claire Sheldon

Ed O'ReillyFew bridge players have trained as many young people as Ed O'Reilly. In the early 1990s the Kingston, Ontario-based club owner began teaching bridge during class hours to students in elementary and middle school. His lessons became so popular - at one time he was told that more youth were learning bridge at school in Kingston than in the rest of North America combined - that he received calls from locations as far-flung as Hawaii, San Diego, and Austin, Texas, asking how he had accomplished it.

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:
Eddie Kantar

Our author this month is none other than prolific bridge legend Eddie Kantar, whose many books include Modern Bridge Defense, Bridge Humor (later renamed Classic Kantar), and Kantar on Kontract. New this week: A lesson plan on two-suited overcalls.

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Scoring PlaqueWHAT'S THE SCORE? THE T.I.'S KNOW

by Joan Schepps

Playing card collectors often forget that card games, especially those of the past, required not only a deck of cards, but other highly collectible items like rule books, score pads, card tables, card shufflers, pencils, tablecloths, markers, and... trump indicators.

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A MOTTO TO LIVE BY

by Joan Schepps
Originally published in CLEAR THE DECKS

Life Matter 1Left: This proverb is engraved on a wooden trump indicator 4 inches long and 3 ½ high with a diamond shaped wooden insert that rotates at the top to indicate the trump suit.

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