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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Stretching Hand Was
port,
A Planned Play
By OSWALD JACOBY
17HEN Mas Marguerite Harala, W
well-known Now York ex- opened the South hand with three no-trump, she knew that she was "stretching." Buch n bid should show 23-27 points, and Mrs Harris know that her actual count
only 24 Win
int points. She felt justled making this light overbld be- couso she had all four aces, and 1 am Inclined to agree with her,
Unfortunately.
her partner
also felt in an ambitious mood. With only 7 points and no long ault, North knew that the com- bined count might be as low na 32 points, Ile could have shown his strength more UC- curately by raising to four or five no-trump. His actual jump to plam led to n very interest- ing play.
West opened a low club, and Mra Harris won in the dummy in order to return the jack of diamonds through East, When the jack of diamonds held the trick, declarer continued with low diamond and Enst put up the queen this time in order to force out declarer's ace, Mra
the second Harris won the
round diamonds with the nee, and re- turned the sult, giving up a trick to East's king. East bock the jack of spades. South won with the see.
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YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11
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with
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Across
1. It's sometugas a heart, word on
your nipato. ((66) *)
9. After the ounce, ith the co
mainder of 10 Acrom. (I),
16. A breath of it makes you reem
batter at the sessida. (6)
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WOMANSENSE
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Atomic
Steak
and chips
MASCULINE
CHAR
CHARM
By EILEEN ASCROFT
"
HARM is Π woman's Charm boy of the musical during a non-stop flight over
world la conductor Walber the Indian Ocean, most effective weapon. Suskind. I few with him recent
I
For plain girls it wing from Australia" to`Johann. Rubiroem once only in Paris, but
handsome husbands; for poor ones wealthy lovers.
But how much more rare,
15. stew is a bit of a mixture. SCIENCE. may soon be inviting and potent, too, is the
(6)
14. Doma football team Kat
together this way 7 (8)
15. With cream it may be paper, (91
19. Sounds like a stretch of water.
rather apooky, 16%
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In the rain, (9)
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old.
8. Moorland may well be, (B)
12. Family open cherished
some circle. (4)
15. Life in a tale told by one, it
has been said, 15)
BORN today, you have a razor-laneous philanthropy, you think, in
keen mind with a very sharp apt to be misguided. cutting edge! You can slash through Your emotional nature is strong being fed tape and get down to real issues and you must und akan me rimsont instantly, Given a problein, influenced by your affections. yin analyse it at once and make tendency is apt to your appraisal. Your decision will other characteristics in your nature itand, fón, come what mayı
and may cause you dilcully. Also you like to enjoy life and, unless you take care, you might becVIDE tog extravagant. Dalance the two sides of your nature and you will succeed beyond your hopen
Among those born on this date. were: Robert Ingersoll, prator: Gifford Pinches, twice governer of Pennsylvania: Hugo Eckener, atro- naul: Cardinat Newman. English churchman; and Andrew Carnegie,
mancier.
Your standards are very high and, ure you yourself are able to meet the su of
you see no reason why gihara es do the same. You know that to make the best of opportunity in always the quick rond to micćem, eyes open all the You keep your
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ten,
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discarded two low clubs un, the caller diamond tricks and should! have continued with This ob- vlously safe course.
Having arrived. in dummy with the ten of diamonds, Mrs Harris finessed the
queen
hearts successfully. Then ahe took the ner and king of clubs, and East was squeezed because of his partner's thoughtless dis- cord.
If Enst discarded a heart, Mrs Harris could overtake her queen of spades with dummy's king. repeat the heart finesse and win the last trick with the xix of heurts. If Eust discarded two spades,
the entire suit would drop
when declarer overlook her queen with dummy'a king, Dummy's six and five of spades would both be good tricks,
If West had kept all of his spades, his seven of spaces would be good enough to stop the suit, East would be able to discard spades safety, and the Blam contract would have been defeated.
♥CARD Sense♦
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North Went
1 Dmd. Pos
Double Pass 1 Heart
?
You, South, hold; Spades A- Q-8-4, Hearts K-Q-3-3-2, Dia- monds None, Clubs A-7-8-3. What do you do?
All fun may make you sound like a rather egocentric individual, but Wctually tila is far from the caNE. You have a deep and abiding inter- est in ather people and want to aid them to help themselves. This yuter idea of doing good. Miscel-
(July
is
To And what the stars, have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and rend the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth. day slår be your dally guide.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12
AQUARIUS (J20 21-Feb. 193 Aspects are with a little cloudy, hạt they are Improving to go slowly shend
РІВСЕЯ 23)--
(Feb. 20-Mat. 20)- Still keep to routine The skies are. clearing but there are still a few stop ones which you need to: watch
ARIES (Mar. 31-Apr. 20) - Avold
Don't spread(R. Rossip. though you may be forced to listen to some against your will,
TAURUS
21)- (Apr. 21-May One of those” fifty-Bity days. You can make it a good one if you work things right. Your atlitude counts,
נגן
24. Aur. 23) - A tule mihour could put you on Įtre wrong leack today, so be alert deniny pomible intsrepresentation
Vinčio (ADA. 20-Sept. Give u, new iden a careful second Thought before going out on a imk Secret drain olsa should be avoide
LINNA (Hept. 21.flet, 21)- Be eft eumspeci su that rumour andĚ
* cannot faul you Pay attention to clacking tongues!
NCORPIO
24-Nov. (Vel Nothing may seem to work out Fight just now, yo xit auf the sorro it will pass.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— Good and evil are opposed right Your own attitude will deter- the which aspects win out in your
CAPRICORN (Dec.
Dole
22)
GEMINI (May 72-June 21)- A routine dar. See that you pay clore attention to detail. It could prove important,
CANCER 23-J 20) ano
(June 22.July Will power, calunem und carefull Walk softly. If you must carry attention to detaŭ will solve Today's big stick for defence, keep out
xities easily
of sight until time to strike,
BY
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THE WAY
by Beachcomber
AN official admission that the cleverly catch
in them olives,
A cost-of-living index is going bits of sandwich, cheese and
10. A number to the south-east. (51 17. Baumges for the golfers. (8) 30. Thackeray wrote about the rose
and this (4)
The leat part of 20 across, (a) 23. The part of the
takes you plecan item that
UN
SOLUTION
TO CHECK YESTERDAY'S
PUZZLE
CHESS PROBLEM
スト
By A. KRAKMER
Black, 11 pieces.
White 7 places
White to play: mate in two,"
Solution to yesterday's problem:
you to an abotnic dinner---- with atomic stonk and onlon and chips.
Eight hundred atom-ray ex-: perts in conference at Oxford were told about the steak re- cently.
Treatment by high-intensity gamma rays con preserve the meat indefinitely, sald Pros fessor L E. Brownell, or the University of Michigan.
charm of the male,
Lainching with David Niven, I wondered how charm.
to define mate
I am not usually susceptible i to the wiles of masculino state. They are- ummly vain.
opinionated and "bad-tempered. But I was forced to admit that David Niven possessed the rare masculine virtue of charm.
FIVE QUALITIES
burg.
met diplomat Porário
that was enough to understand He has o'tact gift for making · Mlas Zsa Zsa Gabor's point of things that might be
tedious view,
such as aeroplane delays and
Sayn the expert: “He acte lile And he even managed to pro- you are the only person in the breakdowns into fun duce my only birthday present world."
IN-LAWS CAN BE AN
ASSET TO FAMILY
¤ year,
By Garry C. Myers, Ph.D. THE other day, my wife lived far away from us. Happily THE
Bald to me, "I wonder if for us, they have visited us
once or twice
before a radiation I would say that it is a mix-you have not been neglect their children arrived, and in Experiments in
with their "cave" have shown that moat, ture of five important qualitiesing in your column, recently, more recent years, potatoes, and onions can be genuine interest in present con discussion of marriage children (a total of 13 at this were never completely sterilised after ex-paniona; sense of humour; en- posure to the rays from radio-shuslasen for living, whether it problems in relation to child writing). They
long enough with us, perhaps, Why don't you to tempt as to hamper them active 'cobalt,
be work or play; easy convers-rearing. tion; and above-averago good discuss In-law problerna as married couples or parents. looks.
more often?" I told her I don't know just how good
lawa we might prove to be it was going to.
we lived only a few miles ot blocks away. If we were able to follow our own teaching, wo would do pretty well, I think. I
THE SNAGS
Masculine charm has nothing But, now come the snags.to do with worldly success. Some There is a loss of flavour, and of the wealthiest, most prominent
men are the least personally,
attractive
Who are the men with charm in politics?
My first mominee 19 the Bocialist ex-Chancellor, Hugh Gaitskejl.
in
Whether by accident, good co-operative planning or by the grace of God, my wife and
not to have
our knowledge to serious in- been partners law problems. We started off in
Nor did we consciously exert our marriage alone, living far away from my parents, brothers any special direct effort at in- fluencing our children in their and sisters, though spending a
mate-selection. One of them, few weeks in Bummer with Caroline's parents on the farm, however, on hearing me, once He really makes you feel that we also did for several sum- upon a time, express this idea, your presence is important
mera while our children were sald, "You and Mother did so the success of a party,
pretty young, and her parents unawares during all the years with onions it was found that
we were growing up." Anyway, Another political host with the lived with us a few winters of
to date, they seem to us to some sprout more quickly; in gift of making even his Arst- their last years.
have been happily married, becomes others the favour
is time guests feel happy and im- mlider, Another problem
portant is Chancelor Butler's vitamin deficiency.
right-hand man, Reginald Maudling.
Dr Brownell, who was speak- ing at the second radio Isotope conference,
that explained smaller "dosca" of radiation meant that steaks could be kept on the kitchen shelf a week longer than normal before going
bad,
MARVELLOUS HOST
Many of you could praiso your in-laws. With all we hear were such grand or read about bad in-lawa, wo But they persons, GO perfectly minded tend to overlook the many good their own business, and won the ones the grandmothere, grand- love and admiration of both of father,
who aunts or uncles us and our children, inspiring are unsung heroes and heroines! For the benefit of those newly and good Mr Maudling is large and not them with ambition too handsome. But charging ideals, that instead of being a married couples whose in-laws around his tiny mewn cottage he liability to
they might not always act wisely, our family, makes a refreshing host.
were a great asset to all of us, let me suggest that they aim to sure each of our children declare and maintain Inde- I'm
pendence from their in-laws. It's during the drst few years of marriage when, the law each patterns are pretty well estab
has fished "for better of for worse."
Experiments on the atom-ray He displays genuine interest | now, with familles of their sterilisation of butter and fats in talking to all his guesta. And own, would agree with the are being mado at Cambridge unlike most party-givers he foregoing.
University, and other experi-
menta at Harwell Atomic Re-rally bathers to wait for their
search Station.
food When will the atomle appear on the menu? Sald 1, K-87. 1
Brownell: ... P-QS; 2, Kt Professor
"Quite K4; 1 P-Q7; 2, K1-K2; 1 moon. Probably potatoes first
Kt any; 2, Kt-Q1 (x). then meat,"
replies.
As for our own children,
of them, since marriage,
Whiteaways
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE THE SUMMER
up needs some explanation. The biscuit, and take them away. Agures must be scen in the context of the overall situation pertaining, The latest calcula- tion, a purely referential one, is contingent on marginal adjust- ment, which is spread over whole year, and is proportioned Lo the seasonal rise or tali, in order to take into account the
01
partial fluctuations necessitated by factual trends. As readjust- ment is always
the prevailing tendo
temptation is to
attribute
on the
rlae of a point or more in the index as corresponding to a rise in consumer-disbursement. That the reverse may be the case is amply
demonstrated by the Interim герогі of the Price- Level Society, which treats the whole position as fuld, on long-term basis.
In passing
Д
It's Fun to Be Small
W
-Mr. Punch Was as Little as a Potato Bugi-
By MAX TRELL
as I was having when I WON
the size of a potato búg. Did
JHEN I was a little boy," you ever take a ride on a leaf**
Mr Punch was saying to Mr Punch suddenly asked. Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- Knart and Hand shook their
"Ah, that was a game!" Mr Punch suld, “It was much more
children with the turned-about heads. names.
Juckisr "I was much than most other little boya."
Knart and Hanid both inoked at Mr Punch with come suT- prise, for they had never bc- fore heard him say that he was ever luckier than anybody.
fun than being the Lame Prince Who Rode on a Carpet. I used to climb up the Maple Tree that stood in our garden. Then I'd pick a nice, blg dry leaf and sit right down
middle
English prestige in the humb ler sports seems to be safe. I
of it. Finally the wind On the Contrary read that the British Marble
would come along...and away Board of Control (ro) gent a
we'd go Salling through the When Mr. Funch was small, he Quite the contrary, they often team to Le Touquet and that they "thrashed a French team" heard Mr Punch say that her, like a big fluttering buiter- skimmed downhill on a feather.
spirit into was a good deal less lucky and fly
"Didn't
This will put new
Mr you ever fall,
our halma men, and all English less fortunate and less happy Punch?" Hanid asked in alarm, feather" exclaimed Hanid.
than almost anybody else, tiddlywinkers with fire. If we can
the Norwegian halma team in Oslo next month, and
floz
ever,"
"You' slid down the hill on a
sald **Hardly
"You might cali it sliding," Mr Yos," said Mr Punch, re-
there Funcls. "The leaf would always replied Me Punch. "It was inare A-Bld three hearts. This massacre the Dutch tiddlywinks Plating, "I don't think
four in Delft, we shall be able was any other small boy in the come fluttering down. It never like, skimming down the side of to hold heads up, especially if whole world who was as lucky would fall down. It dropped the hill. I'd barely touch the
as gently as a feather, That re ground," by as I was when
minds me of something else.".
highly invitational jump raiso umalty shows 18-20 points, but it may be made with only pojnim (as in this case) when the' distribution is exceedingly good. The vold in diamonds” is ample Jusililustion for this bid.
TODAY'S QUESTION
15 the games are not marred
the kind of incident which brings pingpong into disrepute.
The bidding is the same BA in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spadest A-Q- 8-4, Hearts K-Q-J-2, Diamond 4, Clubs A-K-Q-3. What do you
do?
Answer Tomorrow
DUMB-BELLS
HAVE YOU ANY
HOBBIES
NO ONLY HIVES
A jab from the past
was small." "Why?" asked Knart. **Because I was small," cold Mr Punch.
Noticing that Knarf and hope Mrs Wretch has read Hanid locked even more puzzled this paragraph in her local than before, Mr Funcht hastered
to explain. paper:
Arkelmo the Demon Cycles "Now, when I say small, my mean small. was yesterday married quietly dears, I really to Mias · Della Duddes, the When I was five years old, trapeze artist. Mr Ernest was no bigger than a potato Wugwall, in whose circus the bug. And a potato bug (if you happy couple are appearing, know your potato bugs) is no bigger than a very small but.
Too Big Now
Punch sighed. "But I can't
do those things any more," he "I can't ride on a leaf. I 't skim down the side of a
Kmart and Hanic walted for hill on a feather. I'm much too Mr Punch to go on.
big and old and fat. The best I of con do now in spring up and "Feather-lying was lots fun, too, I'd find a big feather down on my bod arid do a cart- chicken feathers were best wheel on the lawn. But it's not and climb up to the top of the the same thing. And that's why hill with it. That when I got: I say that anyone who's as to the top of the hill, I'd sit on amali aš a potato bug when the feather just like childres: he's small is very lucky Ins
doed." sit on a aled."
was best man. Some years to that how small you Kupert and the Spring Chicken-22-
Utta
she
Volkes,
now the wife of Colonel Wretch of Wretch Manor, was reported to be
Wugwell engaged to M 1008 al that ilme. La Belle Zabouta, whose equestrian act was loudly applauded. Inset: La Baile Zaboula kicking the
hát
the
off the ape,
"Gobo
"
48
were?" atleed Hanid.
"Just about," sald, Mr Punch. "But why did' that make you so lucky?" Krari asked again.
"It's a funny thing," he said, after a moment' or two of hesitation during which he stands an the two hats what his eyey is though hotser Chibson and Dandelion he wore thinking back to the
old days when he was a "boy:
gth waistcoats?
Knee-length
Men who become neurotic
+
When You're Small
about their clothes have now "When you're small,... you fo decide whether to wear their went to bờ big, and when trousers turned up at the you're big: you sometimes with bottom or not. I read that the you were small apalin: That's Men's Fashion Counele how it is with mail folk. But gode) is against turn-lip at when I was small, itwas gind the moment. Innkeepers are 10 be small. I didn't want to bled bgainst turn-ups, 10-bedkulle grow up at aller Kawa munio, baye as much" fun
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