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1 of the Hill in Bridge Goren: King Last Night By EARL WILSON I Sri v.nl There are something like 60 to 70 million bridge players scattered across the globe, and when one of them sits down with a new partner he usually says "I presume you play Goren." The chances are better than nine out of 10 the answer will be Yes. Charles Goren likes it that way, and intends to make sure the situation doesn't change. On Your Feet, There! It's Jackie and Protocol EW YORK You can put this down in your etiquette and protocol papers: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1962 you're supposed to hop to your feet when Jackie Kennedy comes into an auditorium, theater or meeting even though you're com Pittsburghesque By CHARLES F. Danver A fortably seated and have your girdle or belt loosened. The Four Hundred says so so do the 2500 who went to the Lincoln Center white-tie opening, a few nights back.

As Jackie walked to her chair at Philharmonic Hall, there was a great bustle, scraping and shuffling. "Do you think we ought to stand?" I heard a man be Portable Resisters ALL THE stickups, muggings and molesting of women these days are causing Pittsburghers to dig their portable burglar alarms out of the attic. These are wind-up devices the size of a transistor radio which set off a siren at the push of a button. They appeared on the mar ket 10 years ago. Some 500 or 600 were sold in this dis Mr 7 IT I if 2 1in', I I hind me ask.

Wilson "Well," replied his wife, "in the presence of royalty She stood up. So did everybody else "Rocky" and "Bob" and "Hunt" (Huntington Hartford) and "Henry" (Henry Morgan). I was immediately on my feet also on the feet of a woman next to nie who had her shoes off. We kid our British friends about curtsy, ing to royalty but let's face it, we give an "American curtsy" to our First Family. I'll bet we'll even do it when Caroline Kennedy starts hippety-lmpping in.

trict, mostly to doctors, banks (for their messengers) and nurses, who nightly brave the shadows around the city's hospitals with little or no pro- A I lecuon. a Awl Thn alarmc u'nrp mnniifup. Mr. Danver tured by a New Jersey firm which, I'm told, is now out of business. Probably never guessed that boom times were ahead when the police would have their hands full chasing automaniacs and it would be every citizen for himself.

Even As You and DR. MARSHALL BIDWELL, city or-ganist, had a nice vacation, thank you. He made two trips to Sparrow Lake, Canada, and caught a lot of fish. But all Rood things must come to an end even for a city organist. This Sunday afternoon he begins another season of recitals at Carnegie Music Hall, Oakland and so to work.

By JIM BECKER Aisoclaled Presi Staff Writer rpiIE FESTIVE board of contract bridge is amply heaped with fame and fortune, but it is set for only one diner at a time. That single seat is fiercely contested, somewhat in the fashion of the children's game of "King of the Hill." Occupancy is worth a million dollars and more, with only crumbs for losers. There have been two "Kings" of the bridge hill in the short history of this card game, now played by nearly one of every three American adults. One was the late and controversial Ely Cul-bertson. The current crown holder is Charles Goren, a 61-year-old Philadelphia bachelor who iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiii Charles Goren's bridge column is a feature in the Post-Gazette's Daily Magazine.

iiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiimiimi took up the game seriously because a girl friend showed him up at it some 40 years ago, Goren, who abandoned a weak law practice in the mid-30's to concentrate on playing cards, has become a millionaire and a friend of the high and mighty. He greatly enjoys both. AS FOR THE CHALLENGERS to the throne? "They make a living," says Goren. "That's all." And, he adds in his deceptively mild manner, he has no intention of moving over to share the wealth. "I'll stay on top until they claw me down." Both Culbertson and Goren share one characteristic.

After constructing a highly profitable empire, neither was content to settle back and enjoy it peacefully. Instead, each was willing to continue to risk everything on his own ability at playing cards. Goren says he has no intention of quitting the arena of tournament bridge. "I like to be in action," he says. That is off-the-cuff Goren, a product of a poor-proud, highly competitive Philadelphia neighborhood where most of the boys seemed either to go to college or to jail.

THERE IS A NICE synthetic Goren, whose speaking and writing style might be described as Frank Merriwell Gothic, who says: "I am no arm chair general. I want to stay on the firing lines as long as I can." The street fighter in him adds with glee: "And at my age they still haven't been able to bring me down." As long as Goren Is up, any one of the estimated 60 to 70 million bridge players in the world can sit down with any three others of the tribe, in Tokyo. Tangiers or Tacoma, and announce simply: "I play the Goren system." He will be understood. Goren says that 99 per cent of all bridge players in the world use his system of bidding and play. This unanimity Is the key both to the popularity of bridge and to the fact that only one man can get rich at it, at a time.

Contract bridge is such a new development that the man who invented it, Harold Vanderbilt, is still an active and outstanding competitor. Vanderbilt devised the present rules on a cruise with some friends in 1925. GOREN ATTENDED McGill University in Canada. There he once took a hand in a bridge game organized by the girl he was interested in, and, he says, "made an ass of myself." That never happened again. He got a book on bridge and memorized it from cover to cover.

He began playing in tournaments, between law Frank Sinatra's diving deep into the gambling business. He's doubling the size of Lake Tahoe Cal Neva, hoping to stay open all year and attract winter plungers. Is Sinatra in a deal to toss in with Darryl Zanuck and become one of the owner-geniuses of 20th Flash: Producer Hal Prince'U marry composer Judy Chaplin, dtr. of Saul Chaplin. Carl Sandburg, recently very ill, will tour Israel with Harry Golden.

Kim Novak was served notice by Director Dick Quine: "Now that our Paris summer lark is about over, you gotta marry me or forget The most remarkable tiling I saw at Lincoln Center was Mrs. Charles (Molly) Berns wearing glasses, or lorgnette, with a diamond tear-drop permanently attached to one side. She had a jeweler make it and Charlie, one of the 21 owners, paid for it. He doesn't have a diamond teardrop on his glasses. "I'm crying on the inside," he explained.

Bound to Rise HARRY DLTOXT, of USSteel, was reminded of it by the item here about the stamp store that gives trading stamps. He belongs to the North Braddock Volunteer Fire Department and instructs new volunteers in other communities. One community wasn't getting many men out at the meetings, and somebody suggested that they begin giving stamps and notify the wives of the absentees of this fact. It wasn't done, however, for fear the husbands would burn up. At the next meeting, though, the chaplain did pass out a few stamps hoping this would indirectly get the message to the ladies.

Hey, there! The Waldorf privately says the new Americana, supposedly the "world's tallest hotel" (50 stories), actually isn't 'cause it's 100 feet shorter than the Waldorf. Tony Curtis assures me he and Christine Kaufmann are in no hurry to marry. Christine's entered June Taylor dancing school; Tony's getting ready to shoot "Mr. Cognac" in Hollywood. Mr.

Goren, recently in Pittsburgh for a bridge tournament, is the game's Expert. King Business Squirrel Cage By DOUGLASS WELCH THEX there was the bit about Attorney Gilbert N. Polonsky abdicating as "the corned beef king" of Murray Avenue. Well, it turns out that the Polonsky delicatessen was bought by Iz Cohen, formerly in the poultry business and known as "the poultry king." Which makes Mr. Cohen, naturally, the new "corned beef king." SAID to Green Eyes: "I wonder SO Wl what hat I could get in damages if you ran larity contests among his fellows.

Yet he comes out better than might be expected. The boys (almost the only top female bridge expert is Helen Sobel, Goren's steady partner) cut him up pretty well in conversation, but they do that to each other with even more vehemence. Goren, himself, is pretty gentle with them, as he might well afford to be. "There are only two players I really don't like," he says. It would be exposing no secrets to reveal that Oswald Jacoby is not one of Goren's leading admirers, or vice versa.

Although Goren doesn't play in every tournament, he still makes many of them. Why? "I like the feeling of being top man," he admits. "I like to draw the top galleries. "I was in a tournament just the other day, and we did very badly, and my partner and I were quickly shunted off to the consolation round. When we got up and left lo 1,1 other room, the gallery went with us to a man.

"Imagine that! They all walked out on the championship round to follow us." cases, and writing bridge books, which hit the market with almost audible thuds. Meanwhile, he worked on his system. Basically, it assigns a point total to each face card and combination of cards, and allows players to arrive at their best contracts. To push the system, Goren entered every bridge tournament he could find, and he won so many that he became the first life master. (Twelve life masters were appointed when the point system was devised for grading players.

Goren was the first to play his way into the select company.) Today, Goren has columns in two magazines and a string of newspapers. He has sold about seven million bridge books, and an uncounted number of gadgets, including a million copies of a cardboard "Bidding Wheel." There are Goren highball glasses, to be served off Goren trays, wrapped in Goren cocktail napkins. He has a weekly television show and runs bridge cruises. AS IS NATURAL ENOUGH in the jungle of bridge experts, Goren would not win any popu away with another fellow." And she said: "It's an idea." And we said: "In this country I could sue the other leuow oniy lor the loss of your affection. But in England the judge would consider everything about I you.

And she said: "What do you mean, everything about me?" And we said: "In England the judge would admit evidence that you were a good cook, for instance." And she said: "Well I jt A Welch Rondo by the Rivers BETTY MISKLOW, petite probation officer in Juvenile Court, got engaged to Dr. Carl Marnatti, a graduate (last year) of the Pitt Medical School. They haven't set the date, because he's now Captain Marnatti of the Air Force and on a tour of duty at Goose Bay, Labrador. Contractor Ed Jacobson and his wife, Dorothy, felt like dancing the other night at the Beau Brummell Club, but no dance floor. So the next day he sent around a 12-by-12foot portable dance floor.

Ladycop Sergeant Mildred Sladic became a proud grandma Monday. It's "a future traffic cop," as she says, for Barbara Lee and Richard Lee Sladic at the West Penn. Pop's in the Navy on the U.S.S. Cascade in the Mediterranean. it wa No Wonder! W.

L. DeCOURSEY read here about F. E. Robinson's four-headed cabbage and comments: "I have had a vegetable garden for 30 years and many times, when I removed the main head of the cabbage, the plant would reproduce four small heads and sometimes five." Yeah sure. But, folks, Mr.

DeCoursey is, and has been for years, a prominent Pittsburgh magician! should hope so." And we said: "He would admit evidence that you laughed in the right places." And she said: "Oh, you just say that because it is true." And we said: "In England the judge would admit your picture in a bathing suit." And she said: "Why. the old goat?" And we said: "An American court would not be interested in your picture in a bathing suit. An American judge would be interested only in your affection. It would be possible for a woman who looked like a monster in a bathing suit to be very affectionate." And she said: "Whom are you calling a monster in a bathing suit?" And we said: "A British judge, of course, would demand to know your age. For every year that you were older than 25, which is considered prime in England, he would deduct from the damages I would get." And she said: "How is he going to find out if I don't tell him?" And we said: "He would require you to the bucket." to t'll him.

If you refused, off you'd go And she said: "Who does he think he is, anyway? A Hitler or somebody?" And we said: "Under English procedure the age is everything. If you waited until you were 65 to run off with another fellow, I might not collect more than four dollars. An English judge would not be much interested in your affection. English law figures that when you lose an affectionate Words Wisdom By WILLIAM MORRIS Charles Goren and Oswald Jacoby are not always feuding. Here posed with two zoo chimps (one with an extra Ace of Spades) to publicize a bridge Whippersnapper Really Snapped ANOTHER COLUMNIST, Sydney Harris, raises an interesting question: "Did a 'whippersnapper' ever snap a whip and, if so, why wasn't he called a 'whipsnapper'?" Do you have the answer? N.

Valley Stream, L. I. The answers are simple: he did snap a whip and he was called a whipsnapper. The expression, meaning an impertinent young person, was originally "whip snapper," a cheeky chap who has nothing better to do than stand around snapping whips. Gradually, by a process the Oxford dictionary calls a "jingling extension on the model of the earlier the word acquired the form it has today.

Bridge teammates: Mr. Goren and Helen Sobol. tournament in St. Louis. Lately Jacoby has been challenging Goren's status.

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Kennedy. woman to some other fellow, there is always some other equally affectionate woman coming along, like a bus." And she said: "What about the fact that when you take a bath and are playing with your plastic ducks and that big new red ferryboat I got for you, I wash your hair and cotics there are many who think there will be a shift in federal philosophy. Some of them are headed for the White House conference just to test the air. "It will probably be recognized that the approach pursued by the commissioner since 1932 may have become antiquated in the light of new the body's greater tolerance of the drug. Alarm often is raised about dope being used to despoil the nation's young.

But on the Burea uof Narcotics list of 46,798 known addicts in the United States there were at latest count only 116 who were 17 or under. This is less than one-quarter of one per cent. no matter how deep the suf- "But it can pinpoint weak-fering, there came sleep. nesses of present approaches, indicate new directions which Whlie there may be rarereal-life counterparts, both pictures are inaccurate. The opium den smoker is a dinosaur: extinct.

The image of the hopped-up heroin junkie is contrary to fact. A heroin addict and that means about all the addicts-finds it difficult to become sexually aroused. The medical evidence is that heroin and other opium-derived drugs which are depressants depress the sexual appetite. THERE ALSO is a common It was labeled morphine, after Morpheus, a God of sleep in Roman mythology. The slumber soon was dis appear hopeful and suggest areas where meaningful research can be conducted." KENNEDY DID NOT sped- ideas and new discoveries in turbed by a nightmare that has gone on for more than a According to a spokesman connection with narcotics ad- at the Narcotics Bureau, the century: Morphine and related fy the weaknesses nor elabor- Here's a headline from Variety, the show biz weekly: TV Writers Now Segueing Into Producer-Execs on 30 Shows.

Are you familiar with this verb E. New York. Yes, indeed. Pronounced SEG-way, it has long been part of the lingo of musicians both popular and classical. It means to move from one musical selection to another without modulation or interruption rather like one of Guy Lombardo's New York's Eve medleys.

Variety has adapted it to more general use. In this particular headline the meaning is that many men, like Rod Serling and Nat Hiken, who began as writers of TV scripts, have now made the transition to producer-executive status. WASTED WORDAGE. Invariably or so It would seem you hear "As the old saying has it" or "In the words of the old adage." Who ever heard of a young saying or a adage? drugs have a diabolical qual- ate on what he labels "misin- ity the more you use the formation that exists about more you need. And the body the extent of drug addiction revolts if you try to give up.

and abuse." The problems of narcotics But there are two wide- face and ears? That would be worth something." And we said: "An English judge would figure it on the basis of what a hair wash is worth a couple of times a week. Now an American judge on the other hand probably would admit that as evidence tending to show your affection." And she said: "I don't know how a wife could show more affection. It's like grooming a horse. A well-lov ed horse, of course, but none the less a horse." And we said: "Now you've spoiled And she said: "Well, don't let it worry you. I am not fixing at the moment to run away.

Of course, if I got a better offer So all we hope is that if she does get a better offer, it will be in England. She's worth more there. notion that narcotics ravages addiction are complex and spread misconceptions of the the body, popularized in mo- use of marijuana while illegal under federal law does not cause addiction. There are no withdrawal syndromes. In the eyes of the bureau, a person who smokes the weed is a marijuana user, not a dope addict.

The big danger is that he will graduate to addicting drugs. NOW THAT Harry J. Ans- diction," says Judge Morris Ploscowe, one of the principal authors of a joint American Bar Assn. and American Medical Assn. report that suggests the addict can best be understood as a sick person rather than as a criminal.

"I think the conference may give serious consideration to the question of whether it would be possible to handle addicts without putting them in jail or shutting them in hospitals for long periods." confusing. An attempt to ana- addict. One is the lingering tion ictures, novels, plays, lyze them and possibly point image of a opulent opium den, television shows, to a program of action will the addict served by Orientals But the medical fact is that be made at a White House padding about the blue haze, neither heroin nor anv of the opiates causes any permanent changes in the brain or central nervous system, or that Conference on Narcotics, starting today. "The conference cannot be expected to come up with final lhe other is of a depraved junkie, who needles himself with heroin and then rapes or murders. linger has retired as director it causes any changes except of the Federal Bureau of Nar-.