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His death was two weeks prior to the
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Watson died suddenly at age 29 of a heart attack. On
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McKenney, William E. (March 10, 1936). "Death of Louis H. Watson
Removes Great Technician: Bridge Expert Who Collaborated With Pittsburgher in New Self-Teaching Book Is Victim of Heart Attack in New York".
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After graduating in 1927, Watson initially began working on Wall Street but within a few years left a career in finance to play bridge full-time. His promising career was short-lived, however.
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player and writer who rose to prominence in the 1930s. A popular personality and one of the most brilliant of the younger generation of contract bridge players, he was considered by
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was ranked seventh by experts and first by other readers, more than 70 years after its first publication.
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of the five or six nationally known authorities had no known enemies."
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Columbia, he and Catherine Potter of
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387:(2nd ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. p. 699.
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Watson's
Classic Book on the Play of the Hand at Bridge
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440:"Louis H. Watson Dies; Contract Bridge Expert".
271:"Edited and modernized by Sam Fry." 475 pp.
366:. New York: The Bridge World, Inc. p. 456.
203:Reprint with index (Bronx: Ishi Press, 2008).
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2018:List of contract bridge governing bodies
492:. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 28.
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19:For those of a similar name, see
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450:. February 16, 1936. p. 35.
340:. February 16, 1936. p. N11
196:. Lewis Copeland Co. (New York).
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239:The Outline of Contract Bridge
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468:. October 2, 1926. p. 23
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192:Watson, Louis H. (1934).
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429:: 61. October 1926.
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1912:Bridge Base Online
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