Not
every good deed gets punished
By Barry Rigal, New York
Reprinted
from the Daily Bulletin of the American Contract Bridge
League's
summer National Championships in New
York City, July 15, 2004
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Sue
Picus and her new pearl necklace (with amethyst),
won
in a raffle sponsored by Bridgetoday.com
These
days Matthew Granovetter is more well known
for being based in Israel than New York. He plays
bridge from time to time in the United States, but
he plays and writes in Jerusalem and works hard
for charitable causes.
Last
week he came to New York to organize a charitable
event at Honors Club, and he inveigled his
friends and acquaintances to participate. While he
was on the phone to me, he mentioned that Bridge
Today (Matthew's online magazine at Bridgetoday.com) owed me
for a recent article.
Pamela
wants to know if you'd like to buy a raffle
ticket with part of your salary, Matthew said. Thinking
quickly I decided that purchasing one ticket
might seem mean, but buying two tickets had to
be an acceptable donation. (It is for this reason that
restaurants sell more of their second cheapest wine
on the list than any other.) |
Gail
Greenberg, proprietor of Honors Bridge Club
in New York,
picking the winner of the raffle out
of
Matthew Granovetter's Chasidic hat!
When
I met Matthew that afternoon he showed me the ticket stubs
he had set aside for me. That should assuage some guilt,
I said. When Matthew asked me what I had to feel guilty
about, I told him I was Jewish and that guilt is inbred
genetically.
Well
anyway, to make a long story short, Matthew called Sue
Picus, my wife, later that night and told her
my horse had come in! Gail Greenberg had selected one
of my stubs from Matthew's hat. So if you want to felicitate
Sue on her choice of necklace or ask Matthew about donating
to the Children in Israel Fund, for which he works, you
will make both of them happy.
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