He laughed, remembering.
“A very close girl friend of mine asked me if I played bridge.
I was then at the age when I thought I could do anything and so answered, ‘Sure I thought—if women play it in the afternoon, surely I can.
They gave me a few of the rules,” he continued, “and I sat down to play. I made a complete ass out of myself.
My girl friend laughed and laughed at me, and I couldn’t take that from a girl, especially one I was interested in. So—I took an oath that I was never going to sit down to a bridge table again until 1 knew all about the game.
Little bit like the Irishman who said he wasn’t going to touch water until he learned how to swim!” And that’s how Charles Goren started.
“Before I played my first game I was more or less of an expert. Curiously, I became the ghost writer for the man whose book read. It was Milton Work.”