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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Delicate Play Not Hard for Expert
By OSWALD JACOBY
BY American Widding mand-
arth Eust would not have an opening bid of two เย trump. Such a bid shows 22-
24 points, and the East banki actually county to only 20 points. The hand in faken, howover, from a match played between the Americans and the English a few months ago, and the English are somewhat more adventurous in the opening na- krump bide than American ex- perts are.
When the hand was actually played, declarer put up the jack of spudes at the first trick and ruffed East's queen. When South then trd a rump, EDAL took his two trump tricks and led the ace of spades.
South ruffed uguin, and led u diamond. East coptured dum- my's king with the uco of dis- monds, cashod the queen of diamonds, and got out safely with a third diamond. South sull had to give up a club trick and was therefore defented,
South had three
chances t make his contract und mutte. all three of them. To begin with,
be could have discarded
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Even after South rutted he
of spades, he could are
have made his contract by running
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saving in dumuny the king of spades, tw diamonde and three clubs. East saved only two diamonds, he would be put in with diamond tricks and forced lead clubs or spades to dummy.
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If Eart Raver three monds, South would cush Uits top clubs and put Eust in with a third round of clubs. East would then have to lead monds to dummy's king.
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South must merely place every missing high card in the East hand as justification the opening bid of two trump.
for
по-
CARD Serised
Q---The bidding has been;
West North East South
Diamond Double Redbl. 7
You, South, hold: Spades K- Q-9-2, Hearts 6-3,
8-5-2, Clubs 7-5-3-2. you do?
Diamonds
What do
A-Bid our synde, This free response cuts out the possbility of prescUO at one heart, but you have enough value for your action,
TODAY'S QUESTION "The bidding is the saine in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spades Q-J- 9-2, Hearts K-8-5-3, Diamonds 8-5, Clubs 9-0-2. What do you do?
Answer Tomorrow.
CHESS PROBLEM.
BJ H. FROBERG Black, 11 pieces,
FOTONS PRESA CERYONE, THE HURMA VINA
lapper
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER
"I can't come out just now. I'm helping him with my
homework,"
WOMANSENSE
Eve Perrick
London.
the long, long ago when
I was trying out careers,
I once became a very junior fashion buyer.
A few little things like the war, and the fact that [ hud some difficulty in work- ing out profli percentages (known in the trade a mark-ups), made me change my plans before I'd got very far.
But, my interest in theso women who have so much in- funto co
Our life and times remains. I ECO them at dress shown a formidable line-up of
YOUR BIRTHDAY....... By STELLA Indies, blue-haired, black-suited,
BORN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
today, you have excellent Laste destring above everything ele 10 have complete peace and Harmony k your dumeundings You enjoy beauty in all its for121 and
vely likely have artistic talent your wolf You have the gift of the writ. ten word and you might become mitstanding in The terry Bold if you elect it as your career, are not one to compromite and taka arcond best. Either you get a Best- quality product--or you po without!
Discover thing there in a utuper time tur fun and a time for work,
Your emotional nature calls for care when it comes to selecting a marriage parine) You me temperamental and send to
Buthe -ALB who la horughly miftable, for a great deal deperide up your chutce. To and yourself in a quairelanie union prould
dinastrous
|| mink-wrapped, and wearing the badze of office, a large crocodile handbag-and they are, natural- ly, in the best scute.
Tough and terse
I WATCH at terse,
tough G men (trade term for dress manufacturers) try to jolly them Into friendlier
4
dis-
position towards their wares. You
You woya have a starp wit an need to be careful that you do not begotte caustic or nagging in your CITING of othru Actually you wat bepfectionate nod the ferida to Cleat of ulher.
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Among those are: Francis Jame) Italin Gurland.
I born on this date
the think there but for Parkman, historian; | Saving grace of not being able to ailroad magnato, add up correctly, go I. And I author: Alexander Honda, Bis produces Samuel Adams began to wonder. Just what is a alate ajaes; and Alfred Nayes, poet. fashion buyer really like?
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select your 121 Crea
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tut
Well, into town this week came Can American actress who is goe poodbine, pizstāja, fet your birthing to play the part of a fashion
Mat best ay guide.
buyer in a TV him series,
the more serious things and for better day ser
a
ittle too frivolous for your own good.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)--A ne day for all inspirational work You rest accomplista great deal Ideas should Row readily
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PISCES (Feb. 26-3tar, 20)—A] Bae Jay for mat of your efforts, Originally pays off, so be sure that y tell the bus about your pinus.
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GEMINI
(May 22-June 21). Thin could be a must fortunalo day for you. Lady luck is definitely smiling In your direction now.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)-Do what your heart most desires. Get
on early start and you can wind
up a fit for work ea)ciently.
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plemant carefier week-end
DUMB-BELLS
ARE
YOUR
FRUIT TREES
NO! WE HAVE
A HIGH FENCE
BOTHERED ) AROUND!
BY
THE GARDEN
PESTS?
THE LEDGER KYNDICATI
BOYS'
And in town this week sought out a real-life fashion buyer who plays her part in the
at Oxford Cireus. running of a department store
So, in the following. is the story of the fashion buyer in two versions-the Fantany and The
Factual.
Soiree
or cellar
DEVERSING usual nursery-tes procedure, we'll start withi the pastries before the bread and butter...
In other
tashion words, the buyers of fantasy, Misa Joan Shawlet, from New York and Hollywood, aged 27, weight Dst. 4ib, height 6ft. 9ins., ex-model, red-haired, married, one son.
According to the script Miss Shawiec is is buyer named Aggie "who handles everything from bras to mink coats." And she is equally at home at a diplomatic soiree in London and Existen-
alist cellar-bars in Paris.
AND
"
goes down among the G men of fact-and-fantasy fashion
• Aggle, the fim-type fashion-buyer in her arriving at-opice outЛt-pale bite boucle coat; and salmon-pink, baby-blue, ribbon-trimmed sombrero.
• What Aggia' wears for travelling in an open car -pear)-trimmed terasy, balaclava, scarlet scarf and · tartan walking shorts”....... In case someone runs
out of petrol.
Aggie sets out for bocktail with the manufacturers--in phampagne satin dresy and hooded, pead embroidered bolero,
that's why I'm ternal organisation of her de- or crime detection You don't
partment.
really need such talents in this job"but does, low.quito a jot about cooking, a little. less about golf.
She knows a little Judo and things. Maybe has a smuttering of knowledge crazy about clothes now." concerning fingerprints and such, At the same time she is pretty
Miss Shawice, however, admits She does have the dark suit, that she's never had and completely feminine."
a part fur wrap, etc. But her black quite ilke that of Aggle the hair la only just going blue- fashion-buyer plus,
grey at the temples. She ex- She has her clothes made for plains away her nonconformity her by those manufacturers with
the style set by pro- who appreciate that fashion fessional slaterhood with: "But buyer' nover has time to go. I've only been a fashion buyer shopping in the ordinary way. It won't bo But clothes crazy? Saya Mira for 18 months.
"If you're In the long before I can join the blue Stanley,
fashion business you must be Interested in them, and leaves it at that..
For this rather stariling role be braight with her a range of costume changes which cost her £38 11. 9d. In excess baggage charges.
But if they did not include the black suit, minic wrap and cro codile bag, she does have with
(in addition to the items selected in the pictures above), a red velvet swim suit, and agligee, and curl-cover cap in frilly pink tulle designed for her by her friend, Älm star Arlene Dahl,
"Not exactly a falon buyer's typical wardrobe," I said.
But then Miss Shawiec la different.
Lake nearly
every other art- re's you can think of (Her- mione Gingold for instance) she. started her career at the age of nine us one of the fairies in "Mitsummer Night's Dream," and it has given her rather a complex about clothes,
Clothes crazy?
TUE, fashion buyers, in fact was Mrs Sue Stanley, from Portman Square, W., aged 41, weight 8st. 1lib., 6ft. Sins: tall, ex-dress-designer, married,
According to le as it is) lived, MrA Stanley spends her day seeing dress manu- facturers
"Ndez
Meri
most of them but they all tulk the same language.
After a time
haired brigade."
She has not the slightest knowledge of unarmed combat
(London Express Service)
ADDING SWEETS TO ROLLS
M
ANY unusual and de- ple, tbsp. grated, orange, rind and
licious sweet rolls can sp. sugar, lisert tsp." mixture. you don't even be quickly and easily made in both cuts of each roll.
Baka in a greased shallow pan hear what by using the ready-to-bake in 400 F. oven for: 10 min..
variety.
Try jelly or marmalade rolls, for example, starting by brush
TROPICAL TOUCH Pineapple Coconut Rolls are
they're saying ond just con- centrate ол the mer- chandise."
ing the tops of ready-to-bake still another possibility Instead of playing Peuse-
rolls with butter. Then, make
Combine e, drained crushed. blossom-the part most, actresses
She deals lengthwise cuts in the tops and pineapple, 4 c. shredded coco- claim the poor girl got landed Sue Stanley with some of fill cuts with a top. jelly or nut, 1/3 c. brown sugar, 2 tbsp. with Moth n
drab the customers in the store, keeps marmalade in each. Bake in a pineapple syrup and 3. thep. A very brown costume while all the an eye on the workroom and shallow pan in 400* F. oven for melted butter: Spread other girls had pretty, filmy generally
in-12 min. supervises
boltom of a 1-qt. shallow-Inf
GIRLS'
CROSSWORD Chirpie Wants Six Eyes
B
14%
16
16
22.
21
Across
1. But about, (9)
V. Ran back tỏ row—than a mixed
glo. (0)
11. fits about ! (4)
12. Greetings often go by tale, (4) 13. A fraction of a nap and only
jut a little more than a whik.
(B)
14, 18. Dap tar (angg.), 18. 8) /
18. A 112tio more than a bid in
Cornwall. th.
19. Bounds a bit like a debtor state,
22. Spire comes out when
you
sbske him. (5)
popr-Nitka of no-one, 14) Pale king or jump. (6).
20. Bunool of nate. (4)
27. Apimais siways having pertim ?
(B).
30. They're paid out sparingly,
apparently, (B)
29. Charles from Beachoombeť.“ (4)
Down
Dinez, aunt (enam.). (9)) PAY OF
from debt led you're frus
8. One, maybe, fróm Shakespeare's
comedy. (5)
4. Prowess, certainly, without, the Initial quietness, and with more than a "little noise inside. (9)
6. Tricky little tuna..
97. Work in the dough-buk the shaw or nothing to, dío,, with banking. fól
8. With "on" it's encourage. (3),
10. Tear, for the landlord. (4) 14)
19. Rub bedx" and you'll come to
but the water in. Franon, (8)
10. Home to the coeloeqahin, (5)
„it. Often, follows:3ão Brrow,R4)
-Then He Could See in All Directions ==
By MAX TRELL
Hanid nodded. "Two in front, two in back, one on each side and one on top of your head."
"That's a good Idea,"
the
MAGAZINE
"Yes," said Knarf, "and you
with
could look, under water them without putting your head under water,"
Knart and Honld thought of other reason why It many would be a wonderful idea to have eyes on the ends, of one's Angers, such as being able to maich, hold your hand over your head
people.
CHIRPIE SPARROW comic to the windows to get his morning, bread crumbs. By and Kharf to Chirple. "You could and see over the heads of other by. Knarf and
Hanid
"Acroplanes?" said
the see aeroplanes coming." shadow children with the turned-about names, saw Chirpte from inside the room. lifted the window.
Suddenly Chirple was Chirpic. minded of something. There's a They "What do I care about aero- friend of mine," he said, "who
I
planes? Still I think an eye on
hos eyes at the end of his top of my head would be very "Good morning," they said to useful
fingers. They aren't really could ste hawke Chirple...
coming.
Hawke ure dangerous, fingers," he added the next moment, "bul they're pretty They swoop down on birdo like much the same sort of thing."
Knart and Hanld wanted to
littory Bird
me."
Direction Findors
- "You're very nervous,” said Hanld to Chirple. him. And he can see in every direction no matter which way he goes."
Having settled the business know what friend of his Chirpie er-r good morning." replied of Chirpie's eyes, Knarf now mennt. Chirpic, fluttering around nerv- Bald: "If I could have more eyes, Dusly. It was hard for him to I'd like them to be on the end ace inside the room. For n of my fingers. They would be moment ho wasn't, altogether wonderfully handy there,”
"I mean Olive the Snail," said sure who It was But finally,
Chirple, "He's got his eyes at the seeing it was Knart and Honid,
Hanld agreed that eyes at the end of his little horns, which he settled down quietly on the finger end of one's fingers would are pretty much like fingers. window sill again.
be a very handy place for the He sildes along, moving his eyes right in this bird's feathers." to be. "You could see what you horns in all directions, in front Honid was the "You're very DIETVOUS this had inside your pockets," she of him behind
him. to each side guessed which bird Chirple morning, dear," Hanid said to sald,
of him, above him and below meant. "A peacocic," she mild, Chirpic. "What's the trouble?".
"No trouble at all," replied Chirple, and I'm.. not nervous. I mean I'm not any moro nerv- ous than birds usually are,”
"I noticed that, too," Bald Knarf: "Birds are always look- ing around. in all directions, in front of them, to both sides of them and even Iri back of them,”
Hanid's Idea
I'm afraid that's right," said
FREMSKETky a. orinn, fol. | Chirple. "Two Féves aren't
White, 6 pieces..
White to ploy mate in thres," ANTANUT
Solution problems
Muthunder.
kali-
enough for a bird. If it werd up to me, I'd say "overy: bird ought to have six eyes, two, in front, two in thỏ, back, and one on each ride **. *.
bly think every blish ough
fald. Chiliyle in more
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Chirpie, said he knew one bird that seemed to have hundreds and hundreds of eyes excep!: "They aren't real eyes Chirpio sulch They're just pictures of
who
Another
New Adventure
RUPERT
and the
LOST RAILWAY
WALNUT-HONEY ROLLS pa
Place 8 rolls, with tope down,
Another variation calls for over fruit mixture, Bake at 400° puiting tap, honey, 11⁄2 tsp. but E. for 15 min. Let rolls stand in ter, a dash of nutmeg and, tep, pan for 1 min. after removing walnuts into each of 6 greased rolls so fruit mixture is on top. red from oven, Invert pan to remova muffin cupe. Place roll, topride
down in each muffin cup. Bake Serve at once.
at 400 F for 15 min. Let rolls
For
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breakfast spesial, ky
stand in pan 1 min. after re- splty Ralain Rolls. ". moving from oven; then invert
Separate 8 ready-to-bako but-
pan to remove rolls so that terflake ralls. into three équal walnut mixture is up.
porta and spread each section Should be served immediately, with butter. Combine Pineapple-Orange Rolls so Sprinkle sp
cinnamon and 2 wonderfully with a hot beverage
mixture and for dessert,
Brush butter on top of each of 9 ready-to-bake dinner rolle Make 2 lengthwise shallow cuts in the top of each roll. Combine 6 tbsp, drained, crushed pineap
rolaine top
14 tep.
between
buttered section of each roll,is fin cups and bake at 400° F. for: Place in lightly greed, mut 10 min. Serve immediately.
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