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Double Loses 'No-Trump Game
By OSWALD JACOBY
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This Funny World
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.
NEW RECORDS by FRANCIS MARTIN MISS LYNN EARNED THAT KISS
• IT WAS FROM THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR GETTING SO MANY DOLLARS SO QUICKLY
London
HAR had retired
week or two before. Vera Lynn waå undis- mayed. "I can't half turn out a room," she exults. While Harry Lewis (hus- band, business-adviser, ex- saxophone player) did out the
neo-Tudor, "old-unk sit- ting room, she attacked the musle room next door, with ita Persian rugs and corner encktail bar,
McNaught Byndicate, 15,
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basket millions shopping who buy her records. Except for one detail,
On the third Bnger of her left
YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA and she wore rings worth more
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29
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DREN today, you have tremendous talent for detai
anate dependable and meticulous in carrying out any task QUVAD VAHE Bet use of this vapalality, you may find that you are ata is thrust into inspectReali, alom! importiont, pubs. Th
to make you restless and unluppy. If you taught En If you bak and code a entuudion, be sure to force a etrange
work WIF conitumer la get the burdeni wherever your are employan But, if you show miltative and in- petab pev yen Bany buse a chance to progress 16 satnelhing
and re Ang end more mineralive as well. You love etelinate interest in the welfare of all enunkind an reperatly age to help chalchen and young prapie stert a start You pandarily will make a Ber teacher arei, later, a lehe mat ex utive
WOODRANTA
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• peetud quiet charm, chave da nemavus of the opposite sex, and you will, no douth, merd opportunities to wed You are, however, highl
Wan! Lp selection of voon marriage partner and kout prepune making you chenen too long! Aneto, Elmar bont as they states are Anna Case, singer, Queen M. pie af Romanny, Panny Brice, ropeshenge: Thomas P. Bayard, Willem B Tappan, author. Robert Hoe, Hventor Henny Gorge, ergamonrust and reforme
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China most of her costuiniers or husbands car in a year. their one diamond solitaire and Üree "eternities" in diamonds, rubles. sapphires. "Never take 'em off. Not even when I'm washing the paint down"
SPICK AND SPRUCE
By Sunday tea-lime the heuse, which is at Finchley, was splek and spruce, Daughter Virginia (9%) had helped with the durling.
FOR
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ALBUM
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plano tone that is all tack silk' and brilliants, I star the 24 Preludes Op. 28 played by 8. Askenaze on Deutsche Grammophon Ges, 19002. pno 12in. uno 123
in
DRAUMS-Ficre planist Solomon in afl, or nearly all, his glory. Piece: Or. int I'lano Concerlo. eliestra: l'hilharmonis. Con- Bmooth ductor: Kubelik.
HIMY, ALP yet fiery job. 1112, one 12in.
RICHARD STRAUSS.- As played by Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra. Ein Heldenleben (A Mero's
sharp, Lito)
shinyt
custom-bulit and, lo my
this
ear-which has loved muslo since boyhood-un- forgivable. Philips AUL 3061, one 12ln.
Miss
way. ccam!.
But. for lettuces which were selling in Brighton shops at one and-six, she couldn't wring nore than a farthing out of the middlemen. In three years she lost £8,000.
"Only one thing for it," she nive pot said to Harry Lewis.
was a
to make a singing comeback." At Arst
the comeback prope. The BBC were cold and mubby. Frienda whispered: "Vera's Anished, pour dear."*
Then the gusher.
Early 1952 our troops in Ger many were whistling a piece of barley-sugar by Eberhard Storch. Auf Wiederseh'n A
had the lyric trans- publisher fated into English and fed the number έπι Decca, who mald, "We'll try this on Veru."
When the dise came out Miss Lynn went overnight to the top of hit parades in seven countries, America included.
STILL SELLING
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The other day I heard a Decca MAN SKY har Auf Wiederseh'n 10. has sold 2,000,000 and Now "static." Miss Lynn's own estimate is 2,300,000-"and still selling 15 000 to 20,000 a year." alos, recorded ni 17, were on
No "pop" singer has had more Crown label and seid in Wool-
imitalors than Miss Lynn. AL worths at sixpence each.
38, with a girl's complexion many recorda has she belying the first touch of grey low ld since? The question makes in her hair, she still makes hay
Lynn and her husband of the copycats. stare at each other in a glazed Deven numbers: Ev'ry Day o They seem to have lost My Life (F 10560), Show Me Not that Vera's triumph The Way (F_10538) and the has been entirely
Unchained Melody bit in Vera unbroken. Some years there has been less Lynn Popular Medley (F 19561).
AL In count yn others. her Tune-and-word sentiment sothe- worthge peak as Forces' Sweet- times give me the shudders. Yet
tender. sure heart she was drawing £35,000 how strong,
from discs, air, musle your
singing is. 1'11 defend Then she suddenly felt voice, as voice, against all halls, slek of it all. She recalls:
sniffers and snooters in High- When Virginia was horn dropped singing. I had bren on the jou since !
was Seven Started in working men's clubs
saloon me. Inges, as The Juvenile Torch Singer.
night, three jobs seven-und-six a time, at places na wide apurt
Acton and You Canning
'Taxis? Town
10 kisteling? 1 went from pub pub
shilling all-night-go- Funywhere you
MI Monday morning found
Bond Lynn in her office on Street Atp #or. Her brown suit was er n pront and les el On the lapel. a small gold fireplace shooting ruby and Street trap flames. Ira Bond
being singer housewife, becomes a publisher.
ploughs busily
back her d vivalties into sheet muste.
current When her
contract In 1959 she will have rr སྙ Tid tree been recording with Derea fur u quarter of a century. Her first and puts, excuse atud read the corresponding paragraph, Lat
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With neither side vulner able, the bidding has been: North Eant Bouth West
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2 Cluba You, South, hold: AKQJ95 V64 JAQOSZ 43
What do you do?
A-Bld two spades. You with rebid in diamonds unless partner raises the spades.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
AKQJ95 0 ●AQDG52 43
What do you do?
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