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- Ham Fisher was born on 24 September 1900 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Joe Palooka Story (1954), Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949) and Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950). He died on 27 December 1955 in New York, New York, USA.
- Pauline Sabin was born on 23 April 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was married to Dwight Filley Davis, Charles Hamilton Sabin and John Hopkins Smith Jr.. She died on 27 December 1955 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
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Ralph M. Like bought the old Charles Ray Studios in 1927 to begin producing low-budget pictures starring his wife, actress Blanche Mehaffey. He formed Action Pictures, Inc., and began to churn out a series of westerns, crime dramas and action/adventure pictures (all the while keeping his main job as a studio sound engineer). In 1932 he changed the company's name to Mayfair Pictures, but the product was still the same: very low-budget, somewhat cheesy melodramas and actioners (e.g., Midnight Morals (1932), Riot Squad (1933)) with talent on both sides of the cameras either on their way up or on their way down. His pictures were distributed via the states rights system, which meant that they basically didn't get much distribution at all, and the company went out of business in 1934. Like went back to his sound engineer profession, but made one more stab at producing with You Can't Beat the Law (1943), a low-budget quickie for Monogram, which was his swan song as a producer.- Ely Culbertson was a bridge player who became the leader of contract bridge method (an alternative to the former one, auction bridge, derived from whist). At heart he was in fact an adventurer, who had gone through numerous ups and downs since his childhood. Born in Romania in 1891 of an American mining engineer father and a Russian mother (daughter of a Cossack), during his youth he briefly studied at Yale, Cornell, the Sorbonne and Geneva, yet basically learned from reading books he himself chose. He had a gift for languages and spoke several. He lived for a while in Russia and was involved in the 1907 Revolution, and in Mexican and Spanish uprisings where he probably put his Psychology, Politics and Economics studies to practice. He was fond of cards and played bridge, canasta, poker and chess. Back to the States he won a reputation as a bridge player. In 1923 he married Josephine Murphy Dillon, bridge teacher and feminine champion. During the 1930s they were probably the most famous bridge team, and their travels and activities received wide press coverage. They played at international tournaments partnering together. She later divorced him. Culbertson started a bridge magazine, lectured the club circuit, assembled a team worthy of a political campaign and produced books and devices (scoring pencils, card shufflers, etcetera) on bridge and the new contract method. When in 1931 he beat auction method rival Sidney Lenz, the balance definitively turned towards contract bridge. Culbertson also starred in a series of 6 short films (compiled as My Bridge Experiences (1933), to finally turn to politics advocating for world's peace.