Dorothy Rice Sims (June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960)[1][2] was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist.

Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on June 24, 1889,[1] Sims was one of six children of Julia (née Barnett) and Isaac Rice,[3] a businessman (or corporation lawyer)[4] who founded the Electric Boat Company[5] (producer of submarines for the US Navy and others).

[6] "The careers of the six Rice children attracted considerable attention in New York, because their parents encouraged them to stifle their inhibitions.

We got married in Madrid, in a German Methodist Church, with the American vice-consul, who was a Filipino, to make it legal.

"[18]The New York Times reported on October 16, 1917, that Dorothy Rice Peirce "seeks divorce; ... alleges non-support and cruelty".

Their home in Deal, New Jersey, described in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as reminiscent "of the castles of the feudal barons in medieval days"[8] became a headquarters for bridge experts.

[20][21][22][23] According to bridge player and writer, Albert Morehead, "She did not actually invent the psychic bid, though it is generally credited to her, but she did give it its name and she wrote the first and only book about it.

According to her obituary in the New York Herald Tribune, her trademark psychic bidding "was but another manifestation of an instinct for nonconformity ... developed in her during childhood.

"[7] Sims was a winner or runner-up in "national" tournaments exclusively before the creation of the American Contract Bridge League by merger of competing organizations in 1937.

[1] She died of a heart attack on March 24, 1960, while in Cairo, Egypt,[2] "on the eve of her return home from a world tour".