Talk:Boris Schapiro

lacks balance

Since this brief biog devotes so much space to the famous accusation, it is proper to remember that the accusation was always denied, and that the evidence against the pair was of a type that could not be reproduced in court (no videos or film, for example). The account given is quite one-sided, and needs some balance. Macdonald-ross 19:27, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Now done. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

It seems that in the 13 years since the last comment the bias has been reinstated. The commentary on Sir John Foster's report is at variance with the actual report. Other important evidence such as the US team's habit of accusing the opposition of cheating every year was removed with the comment that it doesn't directly relate to Schapiro. As written the section suggests that Reece and Shapiro were guilty whereas the actual evidence strongly suggests that they were innocent. The whole section needs rewriting. If Boris Schapiro were still alive then that section would have to be removed immediately.

Sir John Foster's report is here: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ebumagazine/1967-02.pdf OrewaTel (talk) 08:15, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Obituaries and more

ref#6 is now a {{dead link}} reference to Schapiro's obituary in The Independent [1]. --"unexpected error" for me; not found at Internet Archive

ref#1 is now a reprint of Maureen Hiron, "Boris Schapiro, 1909–2002".

Perhaps that is a reprint of the dead Independent obituary. Our biography Alan Truscott cites his obituary by The Telegraph bridge columnist Maureen Hiron, informally in Alan Truscott#External links.

Here are some potential sources I did find en-hopeful-route to The Independent:

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2]
• Barnet Shenkin, "Scandal in Buenos Aires Conclusion" [3] --asks US$10 for a copy of the 11-page original Foster report
• The Telegraph 2002-12-03 [4] --we cite this --unsigned with outspoken subheadline that we should provide
• The New York Times 2002-12-05 [5] (Paul Lewis) "Boris Schapiro, 93, Bridge Player Implicated in Cheating Scandal"
• via commercial research service HighBeam.com:
  • AP obituary 2002-12-05. (most of first paragraph)
  • The Boston Globe 2002-12-06. (first line)

HighBeam also hits, and lists second for me, The Washington Post 1996-02-02 obituary of Robert H. Ebert Harvard Medical School Dean (opening pars do not mention Schapiro)

--P64 (talk) 00:32, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

I think Truscott was in error in referring to the Maureen Hiron obituary as appearing in the Telegraph, as I've been a reader of that paper for many years and don't recall her ever writing for it and in any case the paper's obituaries are usually anonymous. In fact I have an idea that Hiron wrote/writes for the Independent, so might well have written their obituary, but I could be wrong. I can't find the Schapiro obituary anywhere on the Independent website - rather strange as Resse's, who died six years earlier, is still available. JH (talk page) 09:53, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Maureen Hiron did write The Telegraph obituary of Alan Truscott --that's what i meant; sorry if i was unclear. So signed at the bottom. Also "Tony Priday and my late husband Alan Hiron, The Independent's former bridge correspondent, ...". [6]

Thanks for the replies. For talk space attention, evidently, I should work on bridge Brits rather than English-language children's and speculative fiction writers. --P64 (talk) 14:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

The New York Times obituary of Schapiro:

2002-12-05 "Boris Schapiro, 93, Bridge Player Implicated in Cheating Scandal" by Paul Lewis

Some NYT bridge columns on Schapiro:

2002-12-14, pB20. "Schapiro's Death Recalls An Accusation of Cheating" by Alan Truscott

2009-11-21, pC8. "On a Birthday, Revisiting a Double Squeeze" by Philip Alder

Probably those too are in the online public archive. --P64 (talk) 01:53, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Identity

Schapiro is not identified by the Library of Congress (no LCCN), hence not at WorldCat (no auto-generated homepage, as we link in the footer of most English-language writer biographies). One other Boris Schapiro, rather prolific and writing in German, has been identified by some authorities --that is, his works supposedly distinguished from others (VIAF search).

Direct LC search (now 2 hits)

Direct search at WorldCat hits, among much else,[7] no other work by this Boris Schapiro, i judge, except the co-author credit with Reese for Bridge, Card by Card.

Section Boris Schapiro#Books (3) is thus complete w ref what I understand to be all of the works by this B.S. in LCCat or WorldCat.

--P64 (talk) 15:37, 27 May 2014 (UTC)