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Patience Will Pay Bridge Dividends
By OSWALD JACOBY
MAN
MANY abririge player tosses thou- away more than a sand points per "session: simply Because he hasn't the patience tosit quietly by while the opponents struggle. The bich. ding of today's hand furnishes a typical example.
It's hard to know why South wanted to get into the auction.. His partner had failed to over- call and therefore had either a
strengt bad hand or
iri the enemy's sult.
If North had a bad band South might well get doubled at cre spade and lose the family 'jewels.
If North had a good hand, with strength in the enemy's suit, South's bid would whisk the opponents out of a trap and nently deposit the North-South partnership, therein,
That's exactly how it turned out. North' fels compelled to take some sort of action and the raise to two spades would have been fine if South had held a
IT SAYS HERE THAT |THEY ARE
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By F. MONTECIDIS Black, 11 pieces.
White, 7 pieces.
good hand and a strong suit (as) White to play: mate in two. befits a player who overcalls
Solution
when partner is silent and both problem: opponents are bidding).
to
Thursday's
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the record industry That Way and Undecided"
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Goodman appears in person "Oscars" to its top perform- on ກ 13-inch long-playing ers, Thurt Ravenscroft Capitol diss, “B, G. in Hi-Fi. surely would win the award Goodman as Goodman and all 12 for the best supporting role numbers are played in the grand style, but advances made in in 1964.
in recent sound reproduction Thurl, of course, is the months. give this particular al- fellow with the boom-boom bum, an extra, something that voice who teamed up with will distinguish it from other
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1. Q-BT, any: 2, Q. or Kt And the Clayton crew also gives
South had no trouble gcing mates. down one trick at two spades, for a loss of 50 points.
If South had passed over one diamond instead of bidding his very weak hand. the opponents
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excellent. Solution words, Monday.
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Outstanding instrumental: Ley-
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Hillbilly it: "Make Yourself
Deacon Comfortable,"
Andy Griffith (Capitol) offers a feny seedy comments on the lyrics. of a currently popular song.
-WILLIAM D: LAFFLER
Sitwell's
Literary Lunges
By HENRY LOWRIE
NEITHER
New York, member of that old established brother and sister act put on by poets Dame Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell could practise their favourite re. creations when they held court hotel..
in
A Washington
Dame Edith, whose pastimes include "silence,"
'aunsilent.
ex-
is the little vivid detail sumer spending his money, and should not have been that counts. "The ecek- since it is axiomatic that Gov-joying herself, but she ob- would have needed all their
viously was as she sat like wisdom and self-control to stay tails," I read "were served by ernment expenditure-bears
a Ireckled attendant."
responsibility contract as at some such low
aty tendency, why not raise the an enthroned queen flashing I wonder one no-trump or two diamonds.
whether the standard rate of income tax? her four, aquamarine. rings
have the They would not be doubled, freckles were indigenous. rative This would
double big
as miniature match but they would
nevertheless to the soil of his face, or mere- effect of leaving the consumer boxes and being typically
down lose 200 points for going
with for the occasion
te spend, and present- y cultivated
with tricks. It either
Government the some scientific process. d deal more. You east or by West got a trife ambitious with Perhaps they, were ham good
You may ob- stuck an the hand, the partnership would freckles.
would draw Anyhow, Ject that people too since freckles
to cut their savings. promptly get three tricks
The way to are supposed to d
I safeguard the country's finances high; and in this case a penalty
kindly nature, double and a loss of 800 points imagine that many a guest's against such a despicable tricic would be well within the realm right hand. knew what his left is to make a compulsary levy of probability.
was doing-gripping a second on all savings, until people ap
was preciate the perils of being per- before the arst It didn't occur to South, and drink
mitted to keep some swallowed with the
of their this is typical of all players
own money. (Isthmian Steamship Company, New York) who are too busy" during the of the freckled attendant.
auction. that he had lost a lot was a woman who used to walk when he went down one trick, from Maam. Cross to the Gal- not vulnerable and not doubeid. way races, and she had freckles. The actual loss on such a band or the soles of both feet, but as the is, however, at least 250 points that is another story, --and perhaps very much more. architect said when he added a useful for showing which way
forty-third floor to the sky- the wind is blowing than breaking his camel's back. scraper..
(Old Arab saying.)
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whole is gone,"
e," remarks Pass 1 Diamond Pass an acute observer of the social 1. Heart Pass
scene. The thing to do today You. South, hold: Spades K-festivities is to hire one of Q-3, Hearts 8-4-2. Diamonds those popular chefs who are A-Q-J-10-8, Clubs 9-4." What photographed grinning under do you do?
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to open a overbid, to boll an egr whole, or roast s seems to be a light since you have only 12 points in sausage on a spit. By the way, high cards, but the near-solidity wonder it the electric spit of the diamonds warrants this still working in that hotel in strong bid.
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Caustic Comments
And Sir Osbert, who likes to speak for others, was speaking
for himself.
Their mostly caustic, comments, which the invited reporters had come to hear, were directed, mostly at Lord Dunsany, author.
poet recently and playwright, who
and in Washington too-was bold enough to criticise modern poetry, which he called "stuff"
It was no
Lead. simmering between two literary familjes,
a no-holds-barred but
battle. Said Dame Edith: "He doesn't know what he is talking about." Sir Osbert chimed in And with, "He's just an old mah; having a glorious resurrection." Dunsany is 76 and Sir Osbert
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82.
conference All through the
hurling insults at they kept Dunsany. For instance, when Dame Edith remarked that she was working
new inter- anthology her brother rupted to say: "You can dis- close that Lord Dunsany is not in it."
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Verse-playwright Christopher Bry was another target. Dame Edith: His verse is awful. It's phoney. Just reading it makes me very ill. "It's like a very bad cake made with cheap and garnished with materials angelica," cherries and creata. Imagine saying a hawk is ke the eyelashes, of the wind He can't ever have seen a hawk":
7 The Young Poets
And the young poets of England? Again Dame Edith speaking: "It's perfectly hope- less. Indeed it is terrifying. They are all friends of one another, hopelessly conceited and
-go around praising one another."
On amateur writers: "Ob,
4. Little but important part of they are such a nuisanct.” On
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DAY CELÉTRES ́s solnitión.
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