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CHESS PROBLEM
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to
yesterday's
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White to play: mote in threr.
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problem:
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Bridge Odds Favour Safety
By OSWALD JACOBY
"PLEASE settle a dispute an
bridge
percentage."
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quests a Toronto correspondent.
1 played the accompanying
hand at three
managed
no-trump nod
结版 down in-
gloriously Nevertheless, I am
convinced my play was throret)- enlly correct,
"West led the five of hearts,
1 put up the queen from dammy, and East held the trick with his 1ng Band returned the Jick of hearts, and I took
my ace for West
fear of a shift to spades. slayed the deser of hearts, thus showing a Ave-card suit.
*I now OF ANd that West WAL likely
short Tre
led
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diamond to the king TICE tnessed the ten of diamonds on the way stack. West won with
the jack of diamonds and took the hears and the top spades.
"Naturally.
everybody was kind enough to point but that the jack of diamonds would have dropped, and Kurt I woul! have made
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1955:
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YOUR BIRTHDAY ... By STELLA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7
BORN today, you will be wise. the pay strict attention to all details if
stars Indieste, not to embark you wout true MCCOON
But new projecte on your birthdate
It is another one of those daya whe the signa Are More than a 23 mixed
However, there
that element of gentan bequeathed Home Hn today which.
Do drrubi,
loculupensate for the hard road to Jamie THE success which each doughter or won of this day's algo inted invel. Your Interests are
arustle and if these tenderm
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may MaySig
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17. Partner of brace. (3)
18. "And now i am the ruler of
the Queen's —" (8)
20. Land of Nod. (V)
21. Serpentine moting. (7)
122. Every asiad should bKYO SOME
(8)
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3. Lady No. 1. (8)
November 11, `(0)
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Twice this for a dance, (9)
8. Canterbury daltondy, (4)
WOMANSENSE
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ELECTRONIC RANGE:
NADOES WONDERS
Spring, Summer Styles On Show In London COOK ON A
7. Pub in the middle of the
GEAKET, (8)
Britons are wincing under the blast of wintry winds, but winter is the time dress designers fetch out their spring and summer styles. Three of those displayed London recently are pictured here.
when
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until the latter half of your comfortable car should help to
solve the housing difficulties,
not ques
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S the London Traffle slows to well-known gas-Inspector, "and
nothing to do with the oven halt a really such He then placed his hat
the oven and baked it When with- drawn. I had no dust on it
Nothing to do with me
Very soon house agents will begin la advertee commuuu, romidenstal in their own park. cars,
it they
with water and light inid on Car
manufacturer,
are shrewd,
eight bathrooms.
man
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Left: A navy-blue faced silk suit with loose Jacket from the "Matita" collection. Centre: "Saigon"ɑ dress and mandarin-style coat In white embroidered grosgrain from the Harry B. Popper collection.
Right: A white and china blue cotton dress with a feathered hat-another model from the "Matita" collection-Express.
Chromium-Plated Aluminium
Heels For
For Winter Shoes
COOL STOVE
New York.
AKE a cake in a cold
BAR
oven in six minutes, Broil bacon on R paper plate in seconds. Heat coffee directly in the cup.
These are some of tho' feats, promised from an electronle stove available for the home for the first time.
The range, which looks like an oven is called by lis manu- facturer, Tappan of Mansfield, O., "the most revolutionary development in home cooking since
Introduction of electricity."
tho
Demonstrated in Now York recently, the stove baked a potato in five minutes, brolleit the bacon, on a paper plate in two minutes, and turned out a five-pound beef roast in 30 minutes.
And the stove never got hot
to the touch!
The manufacturer explained that the range cooks by micro- waves, the same type of energy I which transmite the ultra-high | frequency signal on a belevision.
set.
COOL SAUCER
Since the heat is generated in food itself, temperature controls on the range are eliminated, the range and the utensils in it do HROMIUM-PLATED foundation in 1889: it used the established firm in the west of not get hot, and once the house-
first welling machine 10 aluminium has joined
be England-Pittards of Yeovil. wife sets a timer dial, the food imported into England; and it Last year, Pittards introduced
automatically selecto its own perspex as one of the latest
made the Arst pair of reptile really washable glove leather, cooking or baking temperature. materials to be used for the skin shoes.
with a guarantee of durability The range can be installed as new extremely thin, high
Sole leather used for its shoes and eclour stability. Now, after built-in unit
a
or stacked on heels on shoes for wear this is still tanned by pure oak bark years of experiment, they have cabinets ng modular unit. A coll
and immersion in Dits for
a perfected
4 process which pro-element in the top of the oven winter.
period of from ten to 15 months. duces leather absolutely free browns the top of meats,
Athough its output is small from dust,
casseroles or breads that of with
No longer need any women comparison
manufacturer Installed of the large intes pro- wearing light
with gloves
a text
test ranges In kitchens of it exports dark sult, coat or dress fear several Mansfeld homemakers numbers of shoes that tell-tale
powder whitish
for a year before which Canada
spoils the smart ensemble, came to market
One of the homemakern Woa Mm David coloured gloves to contrast with Rainey, mother of three school- stay or evening clothes, will she age chlidren, who amazed her And her hands coloured on re-neighbours by moving her gloves.
the why sho served coffee at morning gab
con-
Nor, if
She
dark wears
OT
The
the
stove
Hitherto it has been READING of country house with
recall
The altered impossible to chromium Dy will begin to think less of speed tale of the muddenly enriched man plate aluminium. But a Bristol many atud moje uf u hernely interior A who went to look over A large
firm of shoemakers founded 96 duction companies, When the property lear needed only for vacant porRON -
agent said.
this "And six bathrooms, Mor If I ever hud to be shifted,
years ago by the father of the considerable lel
replied, "What a nithy dirty ininity be towel by a house tar
present head, Robert Hutchings to the United States, "it could s more quickly 1200
Which tends they must have been
has
discovered
someone with and Australla. der ita own power
In tline to the alory of the lady who was Diese well] be no need for
for an Italianate vill the secret. negotiating asi Lengine
ather or any
elaborate by telephone "itas & gut a loggia?"
who Robert's son, Anthony. machinery, and the
she naked "Only Men Summons in Dew streets on
Grandfather Hutchings begal the edge of London will consist of the back bedroom."
now designs the shoes made by replied of parked care, two
cach useni.
the arms. has incorporated work as a boy apprentice ut the those slender, spike, aluminium age of 14. Four years later, at
She poured coffee into a cup, of the age of 18, he started his glace kid are now being dyod heels into his new range
exact shades of Armand got married on to the
the set cup and saucer in the oven, shoes for the winter.
the same day. His son, Robert, fabrics being used by manuface to heat and pulled them from Only this firm uses this heel, also got married at 18, and now turers to make their models for the oven without a pot-holder. and it is at present being made has
should,The coffee was hot, the saucer spring. Anthony munal neat exclusively for It, Many times George, in the business with therefore, be no difficulty In cool. stronger than its counterpart in him.
matching up ensembles of the "It took me a long time to leather, it is also lighter.
scason and both convince my guests the cup was development, turn of the new
United' Prea
named ar numbered. Then every- inly will be able to boast that be
has a hotire cut a car
whom you believe aphonetics The haunted oven
ale
CNET
Among those buru
thus date Rudolph Fril Just Pietro Moseagul, componets, Willa Cather a Heywok! Bruun, Audioms, Pay Bainter actress, Michael Cudahy, merchant: Hugh McCullough, alates man. Elizabeth H. Whither, poel
То Пло what the stars have store for you tomorrow, select your birthday tar and read the corres. ponding permgraphy, Let your birth. day star be your daily u
THURSDAY, DEC. 8
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. Investigate
Thorighly any make new opportunity offered to
11
most
it is something you want
CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 203-
is not always
A
The market for worms
TT is reported that the export trade wor caught badly UTIDO- pared by D order for 23,000,000 angling Wort for an American concern. A worm-collector and, "We cannot collect
many as that In- without robbing gardens and.
COOK who wrote her M.P
Lo because her vies always
Came [out of te oven covered with vert is probably A raro cuae of pulvi- furnia. It is really more a matter directly, birds. There's no sock for scientists than for doctorn, and pile of worm to draw on, and in kow nothing to do with that curious the chest worm ares, round temel state in which every wae A M Hempstead, the creatures Jun winds a clock his shoes fill slowly almost wild, owing to the ban on with sand. “It is psychic," salda fishing in the neighbourhood.
Insint Try
upon having your own way Sonic- limer you can gain more by giving
AQUARIL'S Jan. 21-Feb. 103- The unexpected may change your #tatur LMS. 10 be prepared to net accordingly a moment's notice.
PISCES (Feb. 20.Mar. 20).-
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two
Another
song,
Swando suede and swanlisse fests.
There
This firm claims at least two also in leather fashion access the suede and the kid are dust-sale to the touch, ale cad other "firsts" In the history of sories, comes from another long free-China Mail Special. shoe manufacture since Its
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Was It Really A Genie?
Keep a careful cheek on those 66
treacherous emotions? In reanance. be sure you know where you Arc going
-Knarf And Judy Didn't Wall To Find Out-
By MAX TRELL
Knant suddenly stized Judy by the arm. "Come to the atte, ND so," said Mr Punch to please! There's an old oli lamp
A the shadow, that's up there! It must be one the story of Aladdin and bis looking for!" Judy thought it ARIES (Mar. 2i-Ajir
did you was a foolish idea, but she went. 20)-wonderful lamp. How Tact will be the mort emelet like it?" igured to
method of trying to put your Klean once he
Arbitrary Actors
be short in diamonds showed up with long hearts. And in that case my finesse had a better chance than playing for the lock to drop.
"Regardless of result, was my argument a good one?"
No. I hate to disagree with a player who is thoughtful enough to take distribution
into tic- count, but the facts compel me to do so.
If you didn't know anything about the hearts, the correct play in diamonds would be 109s-up, You have about an even chance to bring in four diamond tricks whether you xely on a finesse or whether you try to drop
the Jock
in the Arst three rounds. These odds re- main roughly the same despite the 8-3 break, in hearts. In general, normal breaks don't have a big effect on the odds, and the heart break is perfectly normal in this hand.
that
The important thing is South will go down only one trick it ho plays for a drop in diamonds, but he дося down three tricks if he takes the Anesse and loses it. Since the two lines of play are just about equal, the renalble course la to adopt the less risky line,
1af1.
neve
fore will
"I liked the story no, Mr Punch," replied Knarf; "but TAURUN (Apr.
21-May 21 would you mind telling me some Suell to emental
an thing? important Job 14 #nished. Then, when work is done, you can play.
wirk
الاتي
GEMINI (May 22-June 21Jou You must let things work out normally Don't do too much porch-
will ing or yeru
actually progress.
CANCER
"Not at all, my boy. What would you like to know?"
"I'd like to know where i can tmpede and a lamp like Aladdin's?"
Kearf Looks Around
(June 22-July 21)-
De very clear to everything you
asy so thyl no one can inisconstrue
*1
wish I knew," said Mr
what you say to CHURR misunder Punch after a moment or two. standing.
to
Sure enough, standing on top of an old trunk was an old- fashioned oli lamp that had once grandmother. It belonged was covered with a thick layer of dust. Kmart ran up and took It. "I'm going to rub it, Judy! Now you'll see the genie come'
"Nonstrue," said Judy. "There s no such thing as a gente!"
"Just the same you'd better be ready to ask him whatever you want. Here I go-!"
at that moment, or so it seemed The attic was unusually still as Knart tok the handkerchief out of his pocket and begin care "I'm going to look around," fully rubbing the lamp.
"I'd like to find another one my LEO (July 21-Aug. 23) self.
But I don't think you cats Promptner in keeping engagements And another." with important people la necessary If you are to hold their interest and respect.
VIRGO (AVE. 21-Sept. 213..
developed contructively today,
said Knart.
A Puff of Smoke
Suppose it really was another
Kaurf found an oil lamp on top of an old trunk.
From behind the trunk some- thing black sprang up. Judy gasped: "Oh!" Knarf dropped the lamp!
Then Knarf and Judy both ran down the stairs fast as they could and hid behind Mr Punch. We saw the genie of the lamp!" Knart explained. But Mr Punch wouldn't believe them.
Upstairs in the attle the kitten,
Now ideas that have been hovering So he started looking around, in the sear ennecloueness should be walking from room to room in Aladdin's lamp, thought Knarf. after brushing the dust off her the house, gazing sharply at all Suppose a gonio really did ap- dur, curled herself up behind the LIHILA (Sept. 21-Oct.
23-the lamps and stopping now and investigate very carefully a businem then to rub them with his hand pear in a puff of smoke and said: old tunic again. Why, she won- scheme proposed by a friend before kerchief.
"I am the genie of the damp, dered sleepily to herself, did you invest any time or money in 18.
master! Your wish is my folks have to come up to the attic Keep all appuiniments promptly and Fund's wife, came into the room
(Oct. 24-Nov, 22)—
By and by Judy, who was Mr command!"
and disturb her just when she was taking a nap? And why to dust of the furniture. Sho All at once, as Kaarf was rub- were they rubbing that broken watched Knari with surprise as bing the lump, a strange thing old lamp. Yes....folics were
sconbio
TARGET
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North East South
1 Heart 1 Spade Puss ?
You, South, hold:
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What do you do?
A-Pass. Your partner's simple divercali shewn only a fair, hand. se your side can have no gaite.
SM TODAY'S QUESTION.
The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You
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worda ut four letters or more cen Fou make from The letters in the square'ON the felt? In making -CÜCH word, the
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words.
words. (excellent, Sorallan tomorrow.
YESTE
T'S SOLUTION:"
he walked ground rubbing the happened, Something creaked, mighty strange. lamps. "What are you doing,
dear?" she finally asked.
Karf said: "I don't ace why I can't find another lamp like the ono Aladdin had. I'd like to have a genia coms and bring me whatever I want, such ná a bicyck, a space-patrol_ship, a pair of wings, and a barrel of ice cream-chocolate ice cream."
Wasting Time
"Here, you better stop wasting [your time," Judy said in a sharp voloo which made her sound sa If she katow what she was talk- Ing about "Nobody can find another : lamp like Aladdin's. Anyway, I'm sure it isn't, to 'bo found in this house or All our lampe
imvo `alectricity in' thom!?
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Rapen is nasrly
the great speed at whi pahell has travellad
BtWhat callerence does that the white, barang- make?" Kneri asked. Bassett Biosin'anadier bakroc,
4ln had an oil Ismp.) rom
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