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Amanda Meade

Shuffling the deck: Canberra Times drops 101-year-old bridge columnist as part of cost-cutting drive

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Len Dixon playing bridge. The 101-year-old bridge columnist has been dropped by the Canberra Times, a newspaper he has been filing to since 1968.
Len Dixon playing bridge. The 101-year-old bridge columnist has been dropped by the Canberra Times, a newspaper he has been filing to since 1968 Photograph: Supplied by the Dixon family

Eighteen months ago the Canberra Times celebrated the 100th birthday of Len Dixon, the resident bridge columnist who has been filing for the paper since 1968 after arriving as a migrant in the national capital in 1962. His family organised for a cake to be decorated with an edible image of his very first column and the “sharp as a tack” Dixon quipped: “I’m going to eat my words.”

Apart from family, the three pillars of Dixon’s life have been the Jewish community, the bridge community and the Canberra Times. With an IQ of 161, Dixon was invited to be an early member of Mensa.

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