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Jimmy Cayne | 1934-2021
Grand Life Master and multiple national champion
James " Jimmy " Cayne of Boca Raton FL died Dec. 28
following a stroke. He was 87.
Cayne won 16 national events in a remarkable bridge
career that spanned six decades, including two victories in
the Spingold KO and six in the Reisinger BAM Teams, and
he represented the U.S. in the 1995 Bermuda Bowl, finishing
ninth. He had 17 second-place finishes in NABC contests.
Cayne was born and raised in Evanston IL and attended
Purdue University, leaving before graduation to serve in
the U.S. Army. He then played bridge fulltime in New York
City before joining Bear Stearns in 1969 as a stockbroker,
eventually becoming CEO of the company in 1993.
Bear Stearns, the New York-based global investment
bank, securities trading and brokerage firm, failed in
2008 as part of the financial crisis of that year. The firm's
collapse caused global repercussions.
The entwined worlds of top-level bridge and high finance
created strong opinions of Cayne, but among expert
players, he is remembered as a fierce competitor and a
loyal friend.
" Heretofore all of the flattering comments about Jimmy
Cayne either praised him for his bridge expertise or mammoth
financial achievements at Bear Stearns on Wall
Street, " wrote Hall of Famer Gail Greenberg on Bridge
Winners. " He deserves all those accolades. But it is also
noteworthy that Jimmy had a great sense of humor and lit
Toshi Yingst | 1931-2021
By Bonnie Bagley, Colorado Springs CO
Toshiko Yingst was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1931. Her
father was a lawyer and also had a fleet of fishing boats.
Toshi attended a very prestigious school as a young child
- no surprise because she was an overachiever.
Toshi's father took the family to Korea, where he practiced
law. The family was incarcerated in a prisoner of
war camp, where her father died when she was 12. Two
years later, the remaining family escaped back to Japan,
where her mother passed away six months later. Toshi
and her sisters then lived with an aunt and uncle.
Toshi was 21 when she met Benjamin F. Yingst Jr.,
who was in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Japan. They
married, and Ben took his bride back to his hometown in
Pennsylvania in 1954. Ben worked three jobs and went to
college at night. Toshi was an excellent seamstress and
helped support the then-family of four by making slipcovers.
Toshi became a U.S. citizen in 1961. Ben earned
a mechanical engineering degree and they settled in
Colorado Springs in 1980, where Toshi became a member
of Unit 360.
Toshi's passion was bridge, which she learned in
up the room when he used it.
" Many years ago, when the very prestigious
Cavendish Club in NYC was holding
a preliminary two-day pair game as
a warm-up for its world class Calcutta,
Jimmy entered that event. The second
day, however, he explained to the powers
that be that he had to drop out. The director
referred the matter to the club's board of directors
which was incensed and demanded that Jimmy appear
before them to defend his crime. As this august body (of
which I was a member) convened, the president handed
Jimmy a piece of paper listing the charges against him,
and demanded he read them and then respond to each
one. Jimmy took the sheet and spent the next five minutes
seemingly studying all that was written. Then he very seriously
said, 'I think the price for roast beef is about right,
but you are being overcharged for pastrami.'
" The pompous president, instead of handing him the list
of charges, had mistakenly submitted the accounting from
the neighborhood deli about the club's recent purchases.
Obviously, all the board members (possibly with the exception
of the president) laughed so hard that the meeting
broke up with no punishment for the overcharge on pastrami
or Mr. Cayne's so-called crime being imposed! "
Cayne is survived by his wife, Patricia, also a national
champion, their daughter, Allison, his daughter from his
first marriage, Jennice, and seven grandchildren.
Pennsylvania where she was mentored
by an excellent player. Toshi did not quite
understand novice games because she
never played in one. She always said, " I
started in Flight A. " She became a Life
Master in 1985 and progressed rapidly
after that, reaching the rank of Platinum
Life Master, the first Unit 360 member
to do so. Over the years, Toshi became the local expert,
teaching the game and her system to many players. Toshi
was a strong believer in ethics and served as the unit
ethics chairman.
In the mid-'80s, Toshi teamed with Darce Myers to
start an annual charity game with an auction to benefit
Silver Key Senior Services. Tens of thousands of dollars
were raised over the course of more than 20 years.
Toshi is predeceased by her husband, Ben, and her son,
Benjamin F. Yingst III (Butch). She is survived by her
daughter, Alice, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Toshi
was a kind, gracious and elegant woman who
was beloved by all and is greatly missed by her Unit 360
friends and many others throughout the ACBL.
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