Albert Hodges Morehead

Albert Hodges Morehead
Morehead c. 1940–1950
Born	Albert Hodges Morehead, Jr. Taylor County, Georgia, US
Died	New York City, US
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Children	2, including Philip David Morehead
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Relatives	Loveman Noa, uncle

Albert Hodges Morehead, Jr. (August 7, 1909 – October 5, 1966) was a writer for The New York Times, a bridge player, a lexicographer, and an author and editor of reference works.

Early years

Morehead was born in Flintstone, Taylor County, Georgia on August 7, 1909, to Albert Hodges Morehead I (1854–1922) and Bianca Noa (1874–1945). Albert senior was a choral conductor. Bianca's brother was Loveman Noa, the Naval hero. Albert's siblings were: Kerenhappuch Turner Morehead (1905–1907) who died as an infant; and James Turner Morehead (1906–1988). His parents lived in Lexington, Kentucky, but were spending their summer in Georgia at the time of his birth. The family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, after the death of Albert's father in 1922 in Baylor County, Texas.

He attended the Baylor School and later Harvard University. In 1939, Albert Morehead married Loy Claudon (1910–1970) of Illinois, and the couple had two children: Philip David Morehead (b. 1942) and Andrew Turner Morehead (b. 1940). He was a noted bridge partner of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Journalism

Through high school and college, Morehead worked on the Lexington Herald (now the Herald-Leader), the Chattanooga Times, the Chicago Daily News, The Plain Dealer, and the Town Crier of Newton, Massachusetts. He later worked for The New York Times.

In 1944 he published 36 articles, under four pseudonyms, in Redbook magazine, and in 1951 published 29 articles in Cosmopolitan' magazine. From 1945 to 1947, he was the puzzle and quiz editor for Coronet magazine and was the consulting editor for games in Esquire magazine.

He was author, co-author or editor of over 60 books, including books on games and puzzles, and a number of reference works, some of which are still in print. He edited W. Somerset Maugham's Great Novelists and their Novels (Winston, 1948) and Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Story Ever Told (Doubleday, 1949).

Finally, he served as Vice-president of the John C. Winston Company, a book publisher, for three years.

Publications

• with Culbertson, Ely; Mott-Smith, Geoffrey (1950). Culbertson's Hoyle: The New Encyclopedia of Games, with Official Rules.
• — (1964). Morehead on Bidding (1st ed.). New york: The MacMillan Company. LCCN 63-17309.
• with Frey, Richard L. (1974). Morehead on Bidding (2nd ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. LCCN 73-21053. SBN 671-21699-6.

Death

Morehead died of cancer in 1966 in Manhattan.

Bridge accomplishments

Honors

• ACBL Hall of Fame, Blackwood Award 1996
• ACBL Honorary Member of the Year 1946

Awards

• IBPA Bridge Book of the Year 1966

Wins

• Schwab Cup (1) 1934

Runners-up

• North American Bridge Championships (1)
  • Chicago (now Reisinger) (1) 1935

Literature

• Morehead, Albert and Geoffrey Mott-Smith (1950). Culbertson's Hoyle: The New Encyclopedia of Games, with Official Rules. Greystone Press.

External links

• Citation at the ACBL Hall of Fame (archived)
• "A Tribute to Albert H. Morehead" subsite at Phil & Pat Morehead
• Albert H. Morehead at the Library of Congress, with 54 library catalog records