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• JACOBY ON BRIDGE.
Expert Knows When
To Draw Trumps
By OSWALD JACOBY
THIS
is terrible,"
paid the
angry kibitzer, walking nwny from the table. "That fellow doesn't even know enough to draw trumps and he calls
himself a bridge expert.“
the The man who provoked kibitzer wus A. Mitchell Barnes, Who la indeed an expert. He was playing the hand shown today, and it was actually o case of knowing enough not to draw The tritrup
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"I tried controlling my temper with the children today but I did have to spank once this morning.”
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West opened the jack of clubs, and Barnes immerliutely dummy's three top cards in the black sulls in order to reduce bis hand to its ten red cards His next step was to Almond to the nee
truct
Then he
entered dummy by lending IL
the
low trump to
but king. instead of continuing with the Trumps be fed a sextiel darmond from the dummy
I
Has rullest the smond roundi of damontis with
small tarzijad it was at this pol that the khutzes left the table muttering to himself
Arually, declarer hadn't ashing by allowing East to ruff the second round of diamonde
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6
will vanish and you and enemies charm And A great deal of can bring your plans to a successful phyical vigour. In addition, you culmination. Belence, iterature and he very intuitive, This facully, at musle are Belde in which you should times, becomes almost payelile You weck your career for the greatest must, however, take care in the imppliers.
Your use of this gift, for 11 can cause you
tunio Wes are strong and to make grievous error it you do your affections deep Although you
between not properly
enjoy travelling, you will want to diriinguish
fake the whole family along! You real intuition
and rosh, inipukive
are not always betion. And, since you have a cer→
lenonstrative t fain adventurousness in your nature, showing your feelings and the one eral must be doubly on your guard you wed must understand that when 21 you have an instant's doubl you are wrapped up in some im Axul any decision.
nothing Purlent project, sleep on it. If
but that matters Live cones lateri If the decision must he you can.
Anong thone whe were born on inade at once, stop for a second and igure whether notre external forer
this date are E. Southern, actor: Hall, Jayce Kilmer, poet. Charles M. perhaps another person---unduly Influenced your decision If that 14
Thomas Winon,
noted 201 MAK the care-hold off
Muller,
Investor:
engineer; philologist.
I read
the comet-
To ind what the mare havo in There is a great deal of originality in all your mental processes and br sterre for you tomorrow, select your
one of this there may A rare birthday Mar Han Be opposition
pixing to your
peragraph Let your birth- pleas al
ht Persevere, however tay at be your daily guide.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 73-Dec. ZZ)— Don't be thoughtless when it does Kindliness Esinevre you love will pay wonderful dividende
CAPIFCORN
20)- (Dec. 23-Jan Better to postpone signing a con later no tract unti!
Keep your entiation well undes rontrol, too
(Jan, AQUARIUM
21-Feb, 197 5tay neutral in any argument volving loved ones or close friends
I could bring trouble
ZO-Mat PINCER (Feb Personal
20)
in.
ANIES
21-Apr. Mar
20)- Don't commit yourself to sometilist This you right regret later on,
cans in affalis of the heart, too TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21. You can curb potential upsels in your plans if you are wide awake la possible trouble. Just be careful.
GEMINI
22.June (May
11)-- Ko matter wliat
happens dar worry! Mint helps nothing and it You keep your mind clear you can act.
(June 27-July 23)-.. Be sure to read all the fine print af monieune offer you a paper to be gled! Caution is always warranted. 24-Aug. 23)-
CANCER affairs are not likely to progress as smoothly as you might winfi No take things easy today
BY THE
WAY
this trick, and he was not a By Beachcomber
bit concerned,
always exported diamond trick
since he had }kiw
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After ruffing the second round of diamonds. East led the queen of spades, forcing South to ruff. Deetarer led a trump to dum-
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queen, exhinusting Are remaining trumps, safely led a third round of diamonds to the king and ruffed fourth round of diamonds in the dummy.
(July
If you are paying visit to some- one out of town, be careful to make travelling plans very precisely.
VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Верг
Don't get involved in an" emotional entanglement that you may regret a little later on.
LIBRA (Bept. 24-Oct. 23)
for you to be
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5. Mistake.. (3)
11. You're solving it now. (9)
13. Onarted without little Cedrie.
19. The shark-infested men. (3)
10. Airy gamin (anaw.). 10)
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22. Another part of the wood is one
from Shakespeare, 15:
23 A pretty giri may CODYGY
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wealth of meaning with one
Thila Kind of skin makes une touchy, perhaps. (4)
yo marries towards the Plat sermon
maybe, 101
Dowo
1. You 400 it overhead. (4)
2. it meapa cash to an Italian, (4)
1
4. it's good enough for " Don
3
as blade must be quit darling. 183
vivour. (4)
b
Chis may give you the needle. 161
8. 149 Across, or more, 1951
The chick for Rhode Island, 197
ID
l'hi klud of tale is told Lover's Lane. (8)
12
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Saturday's solution.
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17. Budden pilla. (B) 10. 25tt
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m¢ hider: hole. [4 vi.Hostelry to tho begin ning. (3)
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. HANNELIUS Black, 11 pieces,
White, 6 pieces. White to play: mate in troo.
Solution
Saturday's
It is better to all your behaviour problem: conventional it
rather than too adventuresonte.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
22)-1, KKB. 1 Take no chances with your luck
Ř (BG); 1 RXR.
today. It is not that good! Caution THE £30,000,000
to the better potley right now.
which
hydroclido nt is to be built Ealing will process crude oil at the rule of 40 gallons д inimite It will be the first slemo-driven hydrochide in the world, so one naturally hopes that its efforts will be crowned with success.
In such 76 delicate under- taking. timing is everything, an those responsible have re-
encouraging to hear that the South timing will be done by special- It's easy to see that
1y trained timers of all ages. would have lost his sin con-You may be sure they will be
The South hand was now good peatedly urged is, therefore,
for the rest of the tricks.
tract if he had drawn three up in the control-towers when rounds of trumps before tackling the gigantle project is launch-
If South makes ed. The diamonds. this mistake, he is bound to 100
two diamond tricks sooner or
later. This is, of course,
trick more than be can
to lose at a slam contract.
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♥*CARD Sẽnsec♦
With neither sido vulner-showing
able, the bidding has been:
South West North
}
1 Spade Pass
IN.T.
Enst
2 Dmds,
You, South, hold: Spades A- K-J-7-6, Hearts Q-0-2, Dia- imonds A-Q, Clubs K-8-3. What do you do?
A--Double or two no-trump. The choice is a very close one,
penalty double.
A section the hydroclide,
of
in the swod-rings action. Note the uneven under- edge of the drop-gange.
Roll it up and put it away The candles, blown by the wind, covered her with wax. (Account of party.)
KNEW lady who was
thickly covered with wax
so
to
KtxP; 2, Bx Kt others; 2,
HEXCED
6,
1954.
WOMANSENSE
Fath's Last Creation
"Cocktail Dress", a form-hugging creation of Jersey material threaded with gold, designed by Jaques Fath before his doath,———Agenco Frutice-Presse,
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Pare
Shocking-pink and scarlet are taking the place of dreary beige and brawn. It's colour that puts life into everything
THE RAINBOW RAGE
By Anne Edwards & Drusilla Beyfus
London. the Cezanno exhibition with its 7OMEN are in the mood fabulous bluce and greens, W
Which of all the hundred-and- for
more colour -
ona new coftes houses gets the sizzling, dazzling, rip biggest crowds? The kind withi roaring, fog-piercing colour, the boldest and brightest decor, They are falling for bright
FAVOURITES. blucboll-coloured cars and
Which are the up-and-coming scarlet undles and red kit- The brighter ones-dark chens and royal blue china, papera with white BOOT red- and-white stripes for the Scouting around on the trail kitchen, and fishes, spoons, and of this new trend, we report salad bowia in green and red. what the people-who-should- know told us recently.
shocking pink hats, for favourites among wallpape
So far, so good. Let's hope that solesmen and factory men and Government men will peo the way the wind is blowing.
"Those bluebell cars
we pro- duced are catching оп very
Let's have more and brightor nicely," said the motor Amm
and bolder colour. For murely no sales manager. "A fur brighter people ever needed. colour more colour thun anything we did than us here, murrounded by before the war."
dun-coloured buildings, soaked
"The shocking-pinic hats are outselling even the black ones," said the department store sales- girls. "And we're doing very well with the acarict undies.”
"Scarlet has come up to third place," said the man where they plastle kitchen
make those murfaces.
FABULOUS...
in grey mist, and facing pea- poup fog.
We'd like to be dictators, for a day on this colour question.
Wo would
the appoint Coronation decorator, Slr Hogh Camol, to splash bright paint over the railways.
We would have Cecil Besten to do up the pubs and soo they ... never renew the muddy choco- late paint and nondescript parchment paper.
We
"Our customers fell for the royal_blue_pottery we brought over from France," said the man In the Knightsbridge
that "They surge around the French the Dyes, to make sure chintzes.
they didn't use colours that ord We are hoping to
faded and foggy and dead. of showing the iden keep up really gay china and materials from abroad-it seems to be what people want to see.”
would make Graham store. Sutherland the Emperor of All
We would get Peter Thorney- croft to prohibit shops from stocking any more items that
to the add
desolate ngres of "Look at these scarlet-yellow- beige-drab fawn carpets, musty mauve cushions," said the man belge curtains, dirty
string- In the Regent Street store, coloured mats
This Is the kind of thing fables, people want today. Before the war people wanted more sober colours."
Boll clothespins for a few hollowing out the centre of each minutes in salt water to toughen. "meat muffin" a little. Bake, them against splitting and keep then serve hot with a poached Where are the longest queues them from freezing to
wet egg or a hot creamed vegetable these days on a Saturday after- clothes.
in the hollow,"
noon? It's the queue - to
Bake your favourite meat loaf mixture in large muffin pans,
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Sailing a Toy Boat
-You Have to Be Grasshopper-Sixed to Do It!-
By MAX TRELL
Mr
Merlin simply snapped
Els fingers. Trere was a puff of V NARF and Hantd, the smoke. The next instant, Knart
shadow-children
themselves with the and Hank found turned-about names, were walk- standing on the deck of the toy ing toward the pond.
arf cailboat. Knurl
They were now each was carrying his small sailboat, as small as a young grasshop- named the Christopher Colum-, per. They were both dressed in bus. For its size, it was quite salior suits.
pretty. It had two tall masts, two white salis, and a rudder. There was a thread tied to the bow.
A Nautical Warning
Now that they were small, everything about the toy boat Jooted
different. The
mast seemed to be
35 as tall and thick as a telephone pole. deckt was long and wide. threadi seemed to be as as a rope.
were the good ship's crew.
The
The
Mr. Merlin and the Shadows
thick
at
It was a little while later after Kmart had put the mallboat in the water and fad given it a push toward the middle of the pond
Mr Merlin took his place that he heard someone shouting: the rudder. He told Knart to "Avast thero, mate! You're push- hal up the sall, to keep it around to catch the wind.. ing too hard!"
turned so that it caught the wind. He told Hand to climb Khari and Hand looked at up to the top of the mast to be that nemophone company re- corded "Devon, Glorious Doven" each other in astonishment. Who the lookout."
could be talking to them from a
on her capacious back. This toy sunboat? was of no great practical use,
TODAY'S QUESTION
with a slight preference for the but made people at parties On looking closer Knarf
Бау: "She's
Her different,"
thought he made out a tiny
It was wonderful how chor- Jealous sister had the Overture gure dressed in a sailor muit. mous the pond now seemed to to Lohengrin tattooed on her The figuro was no bigger than be, back. Come
and read tho
water seemed to be a grasshopper. Hanid thought everywhere.. one musica! score,"
expertshe saw it, too. would say to another, as they
"We're going to sail across to the other side."
The
The bidding in the same
mond 8, Clubs 6-2. What 00 You do?
Mr Merlin steered. Knarf kept hauling the sail
High up in the crow's nest. near the top of the mast, Hanid suddenly shouted: **Landt Landi"
A Successful Voyage
And that's how Knarf and
Merlin and Mr
the Hand Magiclon, the crew of the good
Christopher ship
Columbus
In the question just answered, stood behind her, humming the
"Get a move on!", the voice Away they went! The ripples crossed, the pond. You, South, hold: Space A-K-music contentedly. Life is like said again. "Veer this boat were like waves! They sailed Of course, not everyone can 7-6, Hearts K-Q-9-0-4, Din
around! There's no wind here" around little rocks this, I always think.
that now cross a pond in a toy sailboat.. looked like great islands. The See "To and Fro in the Jungle,"
Instead of veering or turning arrowheads (Autumnal)
and cattalis that! by Captain HJ.
But it lon't really very hard the toy boat around, Kaart pull- grew out of the water Tintz.
looked if you happen to know a magi- [ed it in by the thread. They like towering trees.
clan og Mr Merlin. could soo the tiny sailor leaping up and down ps though he were
Answer Tomorrow
DUMB-BELLS
ETİM" CORNISH BIRTH!
JREALLY?| GHT WERE
SHOES
Enter-and exit--
a swarthy Arab AT the reception in honour of the Arab delegation to the International World Fedgration of Ind
Industrial Co-operation, swarthy Arab attracted
much
angry.
Finally they got the boat to here. Then they recognised the tiny figure.
"Mr Merlin the Magician!" attention. His "colleagues cried Honid. "How did you
at him, and make yourself no small?” there **DE much whispering
looked nadcance
when he was heard telling a · Me Merlin leaned back agfingb lady that he had a camel tarm the mainmoet and laughed. "My at the oasis of Wadi-Yorno, and: dosk,” he said, "one of the could cut e bus-ticket, in two || easiest thing for a magician to with
his acimitar. Inquiries da is to make himself any size were made to find out who he he plesaca. The second casitel Aut .. nơi', nobody knew him ton for a mattered to do in tu When it became evident that make his friends any size he he would be asked to leave, hip pleasca."
retreated by the back way and
was lost een weddling along Mr Merlies amiled; Ers that with dozens of bottles of chum- osae it plowes me to unwise you
sing to a bait Under his we warmth me I am.
Bueno 20 pollowman who
ghamtoned him, Gerald he was piny ml) hide-and-shellc/n with
When they heard this, Knart and Hania both shouted: "We'cs your friends... Mr.
Rupert at Greyrocks Cove-40
The two frienda esuriously enjer,Now that they can sew everything jhu'new cave, There it it!, This clearly they bova forward.75" But ting the decret : of that : blaze fol, ight 17h crian Devid, prretching out” (hĩa hand in a little swit there
anung,ba Cabrisaching
her
here, on Look; @they
there is no frak, here," "exclaims Rupert in a punlad voles, ** The place is fall of bottles-and boxes," 51" didn'4" think there wouk
on pale: khaki
And
would Like the Oxford Dictionary to scrub from the British language the dreary words that stand for dreary colours like bottle and maroon, nigger and stono and belge.
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