its name. The third edition is organized into the same four parts as the second. There are again over 2,500 biographies but newer and stricter criteria were applied and many previous entries have been superseded by new ones; successes in competitions remain in the appropriate event listings. Editors Richard L. Frey, Editor-in-Chief Alan F. Truscott, Executive Editor Amalya L. Kearse, Editor, Third Edition Editorial Advisory Board B. Jay Becker Geoffrey L. Butler Carlos Cabanne S. Carini-Mazzaccara Herman Filarski Richard L. Goldberg Charles Goren Alfred M. Gruenther Ranik Halle Johannes Hammerich Ernst Heldring Oswald Jacoby Eric Jannersten Edgar Kaplan José Le Dentu A. Littman-Lemaitre Carlo Alberto Perroux Julius Rosenblum George Rosenkranz Leon Sapire Alfred Sheinwold Waldemar von Zedtwitz Contributing Editors Jean Besse Easley Blackwood Jens Boeck George S. Coffin Ralph Cohen Eric Crowhurst Victor R. Daly Albert Dormer Robert Ewen Albert Field Mrs. A.L. Fleming Henry G. Francis Harold Franklin Sam Fry, Jr. Richard Goldberg Harry Goldwater Lee Hazen Don Horwitz Monroe Ingberman Arturo Jaques Edwin B. Kantar Fred Karpin Sammy Kehela Ron Klinger Rhoda Barrow Lederer Paul Lukacs Rixi Markus Philip Merry Marshall L. Miles Victor Mollo George Partos R. Anthony Priday Terence Reese William S. Root Lawrence Rosler Ernest Rovere Jeff Rubens Howard Schenken William Seamon Edith Simon Terry Smith Thomas M. Smith Sam Stayman Roy G. Telfer Alec Traub Robert True Dorothy Hayden Truscott Jo Van Den Borre Robert Wakeman Charlton Wallace Fourth edition – 1984 The fourth edition contains 922 pages — the most of any edition. Again, the pace of change in bridge is great as Richard Frey, now Editor Emeritus having been succeeded as Editor-in-Chief by Henry Francis, notes in the Foreword, ... a quantum leap in the technical material ... many new and intriguing methods and ideas have made their appearance in the past seven years, and some have been widely adopted. The organization of the fourth edition follows that of the third and second. Editors Henry G. Francis, Editor-in-Chief Alan F. Truscott, Executive Editor Richard L. Frey, Editor Emeritus Diane Hayward, Editor, Fourth Edition Editorial Advisory Board B. Jay Becker Geoffrey L. Butler Carlos Cabanne S. Carini-Mazzaccara Benno Gimkiewicz Richard L. Goldberg Charles Goren Ranik Halle Johannes Hammerich Denis Howard Oswald Jacoby Edgar Kaplan José Le Dentu Jaime Ortiz-Patiño George Rosenkranz Leon Sapire Alfred Sheinwold Waldemar von Zedtwitz Contributing Editors Bertrand N. Bauer Jean Besse Easley Blackwood George S. Coffin Ralph Cohen Eric