“The Acol bidding system”

—  S. J. Simon

Terence Reese and David Bird, Acol in the 90s, Robert Hale, 1990, page 7 of the paperback edition, ISBN 0 7090 5379 7

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British bridge player and writer, comic fiction writer 1904–1948

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