Frank Morgan

At the Suffern regional teams January 18, 2026, I picked up:

6  AKT8 AKJ8653  A

After three passes, playing for the first time with Penny Stoever, seeing no way to proceed scientifically, I opened 6D. Penny struggled, passed, and put down

A964 Q63 T7 JT83

A Diamond lead solved that suit. As I ran the Diamonds, my RHO discarded a couple of Hearts and that suit came in without difficulty to make 7. The other table bid just 5D against my teammates Diana Lack and Jerry Ostrov.

In Florida last week visiting Farley Mawyer and Jill Marshall, a neighboring table had this auction. East was dealer. West passed out of turn. Not seeing West’s pass, East bid 2H (now technically out of turn). Instead of calling the Director to properly penalize East-West, South now bid 3C, accepting their actions. West timidly ventured, “Can I bid now?” The Director, finally called, wasn’t sure what to do and consulted with Jill, before just letting the auction proceed.

January
Cunk on Life (Netflix)

February
One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Audible, recommended by Randy)
Source Code by Bill Gates

April
Fahrenheit-182: A Humorous and Inspirational Memoir by Mark Hoppus of Blink-182

May
Old Filth by Jane Gardam (Audible, rec by Randy)

July
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (man mistreated by Mormons gets revenge)
Superman (with David at Moorlyn)

September
Ordinary People by Judith Guest and movie directed by Robert Redford starring Timothy Hutton, Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, and Judd Hersch
“Winning Notrump Leads” by David Bird and Taf Anthias (from Andrew)
“The Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex” by Nathaniel Philbrick and 2015 movie directed by Ron Howard

October
“A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman” by Lindy Elkins-Tanton. Randy pointed out reference to me.
“The Test” by Sylvain Neuvel.

November
“We Did it OK, Kid” by Anthony Hopkins
That’s What I Am (movie)
Hostage by Eli Sharabi

December
K-PAX recommended by Donna Kalinowsky, with Kevin Spacey as Prot and Jeff Bridges as Mark the psychiatrist.
Robert Porter killed murderer of his wife and daughter and reappeared as Prot
Prot knew K-PAX astronomy, saw ultraviolet, traveled light as super speeds (1000 light years)
“I’ll admit the possibility I’m delusional if you admit the possibility I’m from K-PAX”
Loves produce.