parts: Main listings: The Introduction indicates that the entries in the main listings fall into five main categories (technical, historical, procedural, biographical and geographical, and terminological) and are presented alphabetically over 683 pages with entries frequently ending with cross-references to other entries on related category topics. Over 50 bridge-playing countries are listed and brief biographies of over 1,500 American and over 400 other players are recorded. Bibliography: The main listings are followed by an eight-page bibliography. The Harvard University online catalog entry for the first edition includes a note that "A great majority of the unsigned technical entries are by Alan Truscott." Editors Richard L. Frey, Editor-in-Chief Alan F. Truscott, Executive Editor Editorial Advisory Board Albert H. Morehead, Chairman B. Jay Becker Geoffrey L. Butler Carlos Cabanne S. Carini-Mazzaccara Robert de Nexon Charles H. Goren Alfred M. Gruenther Ranik Halle Johannes Hammerich Ernst Heldring Oswald Jacoby Eric Jannersten Alvin Landy Alphonse Moyse, Jr. Carlo Alberto Perroux David R. Pigot Leon Sapire Alfred Sheinwold Charles J. Solomon Michael J. Sullivan Severo A. Tuason Harold Vanderbilt Waldemar von Zedtwitz Contributing Editors Russell Baldwin Jean Besse George W. Beynon Easley Blackwood Jens Boeck George S. Coffin Eric Crowhurst Victor R. Daly Albert Dormer Albert Field Harry Fishbein Mrs. A.L. Fleming Sam Fry, Jr. Richard Goldberg Harry Goldwater M. Harrison-Gray Mrs. Dorothy Hayden Lee Hazen Don Horwitz Monroe Ingberman Arturo Jaques Edwin B. Kantar Edgar Kaplan Sammy Kehela Jack Kelly Edwart Kempson José Le Dentu A. Littman-Lemaitre Paul Lukacs Arthur Marks Mrs. Rixi Markus Philip Merry Marshall L. Miles Victor Mollo Florence Osborn George Partos Harry Polunsky R. Anthony Priday Terence Reese William S. Root Federico Rosa Dr. George Rosenkranz Lawrence Rosler Ernest Rovere Jeff Rubens Howard Schenken Jerome Scheuer William Seamon Ramon Skoroupo Al Sobel Norman Squire Sam Stayman Roy G. Telfer Alec Traub Robert Wakeman Charlton Wallace Robert W. Wilson International Edition In 1967 an edition revised for the needs of a British and European audience was published by Paul Hamlyn (London) under the title The Bridge Players' Encyclopedia. It was described as an International Edition based on The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge of 1964. The edition modified American spellings, 'translated' bidding structures to the more widely used Acol system, omitted biographical notes on some lesser known Americans and added biographical notes on British and European players resulting in coverage of over 50 countries and over 500 players. The editors were Ben