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Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN
by Walter
BIWAKE
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Changes His Club And Gets Lucky
"D°
OF THE DOG.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1953.
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By ȘTELLA
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15
BORN today, you have a great deal of courage which will help you to reach any objective which you set before you. You know what you want and Intend to get it. You are sometinies ultop:ther too quick-tempered for your own good and should learn to think things over more carefully before acting,
The stars have given you exceptional talents which you should make use of fully, it can almust be mid that you are a "born" genius. But that innate talent for greatness must be properly developed or you may not achieve the true greatness which the stars say are yours. Literature, music and poetry are the fields in which you will make your best work,
By OSWALD JACOBY
to convince You have the gift of persuasion and are able you believe that a
others of the value of your ideas. You are fortunate in being deck of cards is able to get the co-operation of co-workers so that a job can be affected by the surround-properly finished efficiently and on time. inga?" asks
You are an 'excellent manager. You women are fond of social life and will make leaders of outstanding merit,
David Scope of New York City. "I al- waya had dull handa in the ol days at the New York Bridge Whist Club, but as soon as they moved recent- ly to the Hotel Sulgrave I began to get very exciting hands.
Félect
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 16
LEO
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19) (July 24-Aug. 23) Spiritual devotions should bring -Don't be too adventuresome, if you a real measure of comfort you are vacationing in the wilds. today.
Show same caution.
VIRGO (Aur. 24-Bept. 233 -...
"The accompanying hand Attendance at the Church of was dealt to me in the very your choice can prove highly in- first rubber that I played spirational.
LIBRA
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23) --- You wil benefit spiritually and physically by a day spent at the beach for sun and fresh air.
in the club's new quarters. 1 held the North cards, and 1 couldn't resist bidding the sinem even though I knew
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) that we might easily be off-The beauties of the country- side should beckon you onto the the first two tricka,
open road.
"As it happened, West opened SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23.- the wrong ecc. He thought the Dec. 28) Weather may be ace of his shorter minor sul treacherous, so in making your
week-end plans, be flexible, had a better chance to get by, and everybody agreed later on that he, made a logical choice. Nubody agreed with my bidding,
but I had the consolation of scoring 1,400 points on the hand.
"My critics said that I should have bld the hand more scienti- fcally since there might have
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CAPRICORN. (Dec. 24-Jun. 20)-If driving in heavy trafic. be on your guard against care lessness and accident.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) -- Don't delay your return homo from vacation until late, if driv- ing in heavy traffic.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) --- Get out of lown on a pleasure trip and relax thoroughly the week-end.
over
can
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— Fresh air and sunshine bring you rènewed spiritual re- laxation and hope for the future,
GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— The power of mind over matter can be exemplified today. Exert your will power.
CANCER (June 22-Jilly 28)— Make the most of this present relax mounting work-and
tension.
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PORN today, you have a peace-loving and harmo.uous nature. D You have a store of quick reserve which will stand you in good slead, wherever you are and whatever you altempt to do. You are accurate and painstaking in everything you undertake and can be depended upon to finish any job which you have begun. You have a good head for business and should be able to make a good living, if not a fortune, in your lifetime.
You have a quick temper, but once you have "let off steam" you are sorry for anything you may have said in anger and will wont to make amends. But it is not always that easy, for you have a sharp tongue and often say things you really don't mean....
Your capacity for making friends is great and you ore usually in the midst of an admiring group of friends wherever you go. You are fun-loving and can be the life of the party" whenever you wish. An early marriage should bring you the maximum of happiness.
To find what the slurs have in store for tomorrow, acfect your birthday star and note the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday, stor be your dally guide.
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MONDAY, AUGUST 17
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23).-
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19) Be sure that all your efforts are It is wiser to be self-sufficient being made in the right direc- right now, rather than to lean. tien. Waste no motion.
on others.
VIEGO (Aug. 21-Sept. 23) --- Take the opportunity today to been a cold grand-slam in the repay one who has done you a hand. What is your opinion of great kindness in the past. the bidding?"
I like the bidding. This is the kind of hand oo which I throw science down the drain. I wont
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) ----
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) - This is a day when you might receive a promotion on the job, If all goes well.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)
If your week-end was properly If you receive word from a relaxing, then you should be friend, answer the letter at once. ready to go ahead today.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)—
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov.
BY
THE · WAY
by Beachcomber
100
COMPLAINT that the prided himself on remaining terials
publish from friendly with all his wives............ time, to time, arb
- TR=1+1+X-NG. The clocirle bell sophisticated for Uila age en- rang with a sound like a corn- courages me to publish a real crake that has ly tophiuilcated novel of Lon- don life today. It is called "The Undarkenet Star."
Proqnote: Why?
Mysen Because that is the kind of tomfool title novelists
like to use.
be
On the title-page will one of those quotations which tickle the libraries:-
....Man's boyish here Outcast from Time, the still
jindarkened star.
“(Ställby). Prodrete; Is that really Streller?
Myf: Of course not. The Undarkened Star (1)
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could speak, the had tried ""Cham- pager, one of the overwork. ed words in hey restricted vocabulary. Without comment
PEOPLE living near a
road
on which there were re- cently three deaths in five days suggested the imposition of Tu speed-linst. The reply was that this could not be tone, is. the traffe would pile up.
'She's my ex-Stakhanovite” German radio's new
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in the song: and smartest Mews in Mayfair very stopy and awaited the visit of his "Conveyer-bells to you, Com- third wife, The hoon in which ride sweelle." Here is a rough he sat bore witness to his taste. translation:
Vippeet There were built-in bookcapes
Plant *4 Joan't with chromium vates of flowers brokrit a record for five weeks, on them,
bufit-in
table, Why? Because Gerila's output painted pink to match the has been wrecked by love. built-in chairs, a built-in rock- That girl would rather stroll in fall cabinet and television set the moonlight with me than combined. Sometimes he felt
felt turn out leaïkër Naga for built-in himself. AT 40, Garth tractor-wheel-bases. Cúpid the was dissatisfied with life. Not saboteur, Cupid the saboteur, one of his five marriages had why don't you go and tell the survived his urbano sophistica- secret police that we slid down tion. And now Daphne was the conveyer-hèit together, and coming to see him, for Garth of the workers cheeṛed?
DARTWORDS
W
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the object of the HERE exercise is to reach the Atlet word-DUMMY
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words in such a way that the relationship
between any word and that next to 12 governed by one of the six rule.
RULES
1. The word by an anagrNDS OF LEAN word what precedne it.
tay Be synonym of the worl tiat precedes it.
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JOY TRALEE SULLEN GELDER
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3. It may be foun by Dading one letter to, or subtracting oil iopter from, or chan ink one jetter in the preceding word,
4. It may be astr ciated with the preced ing word in Kaying, minute, metaphor or sesociation of ideas.
It may form with the pre- coding word a name of KWEST- known demon, place, or thing i fact or action.
. It may be sesóciated with
FRWNS/F
PANS
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SURLY
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the preceding word in a title or in the nczioa of a book, piny, of other composition.
A typical succension of words might be
Lamp-Pain --- Melon-Blame-Blake-Jerussieni
--Artichoke,
(Solution on Page 16)
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SOLUTION TO CHECK YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. LEVRIER Black, 11 pieces.
exterday's
While, 10 pieces, White to play: mate in three,
to Solution Young Boyd screes up a tasty musical dessert with "Shoo Fly problem: The aficianados of disc Pie and Apple Pan Doway 1, Q-93, any; 2, Q, R, or Kt jockeys are tiring of (Columbia) and Miss Gibbs. Ismates. "Ruby" "Song from Modlin as solid as ever on her Mercury Range, "Anna" "Say Beer of "For Me, For Me," and
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The Billy Williams Quartet, tempo instead of using one of the finest, should enter- pling of "It's a Miracle" and gimmicks and they sound in you with its Mercury cou- fine.
"Pour Me a Glam of Teardrops,"
It had to come sooner or SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, ZZ) A new business partnership later Marilyn Monroe 10 give the opening leader 1.4
-If you have gotten behind in could prove highly beneficial to on two-dimensional records. 1tle information 13 possible. your correspondence, catch up your future. The best chance for a small slam with it today.
M-G-M has picked up the GEMINI (May 22-June 21)-sound track of "Gentle- is to climb right into 1 and leave the logic and the selence Dec, 23)You can depend on an
21- The signs say that there might
and men Prefer Blondes" be on argument over trifies that Marilyn and June Russell to the opening leader,
old friend at a time of crisis, could turn into a quarrel. Avold
take over the main eolo It. Once in a
great while this Ask for help.
pieces. style of bidding misses a grond CAPRICORN (Dec. 24-Jan.
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come praise for work your partner can bid 24 grand serves slam after you have leaped to well done, give it generously,
the small slam. The ocensionat
loss of a grand slam is moro
than made up for, however, by
your increased chance to make n
small slam.
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South West North
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You, South, hold: Spades A- K-J-5, ilgari A-Q-J-8, Dia- monds noue, Clubs A-K-J-10-4. What do you do7
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Afld fuor diamonkis. eqapid demailda a takeout by your partner. With this matiy- ter of a hand you want so Forget & Finn as the manye #Save to avild a mers penalty pas Of a double.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)— Helping those who
alsc willing to help themselves is the most rewarding.
are
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I like that in a person,
Miss Monroe's whispery, wet-lipped uttering of the raucous show - stopping "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend lacks the boisterous good humour of the Carol Channing Broad- way version, but maybe you'll like her.
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her occupation.
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