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Leonard B. Harmon nacque a New York il 14 settembre del 1919 e studiò alla Townsend Harris e alla Università di New York dove si laureò in Lingua Francese dopo aver trascorso diverso tempo a Parigi.
Decorato durante la seconda Guerra Mondiale, proprietario di una Compagnia di Assicurazioni che operava negli Stati Uniti e in Sud America, sposato con Marian Sanders, lasciata New York, nel 1980 si stabilì con la moglie a East Hampton, la più orientale delle cittadine dello Stato di New York.
Negli anni '50 e '60 fu un bridgista di caratura internazionale che nel 1958 vinse la Reisinger, la Vanderbilt ed il Silodor seguiti dalla Spingold del 1962.
A livello internazionale partecipò alla Bermuda Bowl del 1959 perdendo in finale con il Blue Team.
Vedovo dal 2003, morì nella sua casa
di il 27 novembre del 2012.
For more than 50 years, Mr. Harmon ran the Alva Agency, which sold insurance in
the United States and South America. Originally in New York City, Mr. Harmon
moved the company to East Hampton when he and his wife, the late Marion Harmon,
decided to settle here full time in the 1980s. For a time he ran the company
from an office on Pantigo Road in East Hampton.
In the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Harmon had been one of the bridge world’s leading
players, becoming Life Master Number 600 in 1953. With Ivar Stakgold, he won the
1958 open pairs spring and summer national championships. Press coverage
included a 1959 Sports Illustrated story.
Ms.
Harmon died in 2003 and Leonard followed her on 2012, 27 November.
Leonard B. Harmon was born on 1913, 14 September in New
York
Bridge accolades and trophies continued, with a Reisinger Trophy at the
Bermuda Bowl in 1959. That year, he was part of the second-place team at the
World Bridge Championships and was voted bridge player of the year, having won
four national championships during 1958-9: Reisinger Board-a-Match, the
Vanderbilt, the Open Pairs, and the Spingold.
He was born in New York City on Sept. 14, 1919, to Marcel Horowitz and the
former Adele Ornstein and grew up there and in Paris. He attended Townsend
Harris High School in New York City and New York University, where he majored in
French.
After college, his father invited him to join his insurance business, but
Mr. Harmon declined. His first job, he told an interviewer in 2007, was
interrupted by World War II. Figuring he was likely to be drafted into the Army
infantry, he enlisted and was trained as an Army Air Force bombardier.
During a bombing run over France in 1942, an anti-aircraft round struck the
nose of his bomber, breaking the Plexiglas nose cone. A fragment of it went into
his left eye and knocked him unconscious. In the 2007 interview, Mr. Harmon said
that medical care for his injuries was delayed five hours until the aircraft
landed in England. In addition to the Purple Heart, he was awarded the
Conspicuous Service Cross. On his way back to the United States from England on
a month-long voyage, Mr. Harmon said, he passed time playing cards — winning
about $1,000.
After successfully petitioning for a discharge, Mr. Harmon began selling
life insurance and playing bridge competitively. He and Marian Sanders married
in 1963, and lived on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In 1974, they bought a house
in Northwest Woods, East Hampton. He sold his share of the business in 1992.
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