I used to watch this show many years ago with mother and my aunts who were kitchen bridge players. I particularily remember Helen Soble (Goren's) usual partner. She had a truckers vocabulary at times, was a chain smoker and loved to show her legs to opponents (male) as a didtraction. She was a brilliant player and a perfect foil for Charles. Much like Sammy Kehila in later years was for Eric Murray.
@ Laurence Rotman: May I inquire as to your source regarding those details about Helen Sobel? I am not denying, just curious as to how you obtained that information, as there is relatively little about her online or anywhere else I have seen.
@@ButOneThingIsNeedful Eddie Kantar in _Bridge for Dummies_ and on his website: "Helen Sobel, probably the greatest woman player of all time, was a chorus girl before taking up bridge. Not forgetting her roots she used this little ploy when she was missing an important queen in a slam or grand slam contract playing against two men: she raised her skirt a little above her knees before playing. It never failed that the fellow without the queen would look and the one with the queen was so intent on taking a trick with that card that he didn't." Also Chico Marx said in ep 1 of Championship Bridge Helen was a chorus girl in a Marx Brothers stage production
I used to watch this show many years ago with mother and my aunts who were kitchen bridge players. I particularily remember Helen Soble (Goren's) usual partner. She had a truckers vocabulary at times, was a chain smoker and loved to show her legs to opponents (male) as a didtraction. She was a brilliant player and a perfect foil for Charles. Much like Sammy Kehila in later years was for Eric Murray.
@ Laurence Rotman: May I inquire as to your source regarding those details about Helen Sobel? I am not denying, just curious as to how you obtained that information, as there is relatively little about her online or anywhere else I have seen.
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He acquired the information from his own sexual fantasy he had of Helen Sobel.
@@ButOneThingIsNeedful Eddie Kantar in _Bridge for Dummies_ and on his website: "Helen Sobel, probably the greatest woman player of all time, was a chorus girl before taking up bridge. Not forgetting her roots she used this little ploy when she was missing an important queen in a slam or grand slam contract playing against two men: she raised her skirt a little above her knees before playing. It never failed that the fellow without the queen would look and the one with the queen was so intent on taking a trick with that card that he didn't." Also Chico Marx said in ep 1 of Championship Bridge Helen was a chorus girl in a Marx Brothers stage production
Thanks