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12-19
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swallow In winter
train.
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ment, squinted like the eyes of possible to supply them with the old Castlebar tinker Who bowlers with, of course
looks seven ways to Sunday tures, or, on cads say, openings. Fach eyelash atood out like for the rara?
sticky hawser, and her bair was hke a steel mat glued to her heart. Perhaps she lacked charm. as the sailor snid of the who hit him in the face with a haddock on Pembroke docks. Vital, human & dynamic
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Beatty rolled umbrella strapped to the flank. would be rather devent. If you think that a bowler Kines mult a king, exquine face, What about Mis who hupils
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raucously with Gian Gosport And
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ne of the sporting
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his Editor, Duckering
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said the E, Wilit stone-cold eyes
They keep on "flying in"
The oil war
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1956.
●JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Here's Exception To No-Trump Rule
BY OSWALD JACOBY
WOOD bidders usually try to get to a trump suit in which than partnership has eight or moto cards. When there, is no such trump suit, experts uzually wind up playing 'the hand at no trump. Today's hand shows
10 exception to this rule.
North's bidding rather clearly showed a singleton diamond. He began by showing his own huldable suits In hearts und clubs, after which be raised spades. A player who takes the trouble to bid three suits usually shows market shortness at the fourth sult,
South could tell that the space raise had been made on a three-card holding, since other- Wine North would have raised the spades bomediately instead of showing the clubs. Therefore South knew that his choice was between playing the hand of spaces with only seven trumps In The combined hands and playing the hand at no-trump.
It was here that South pro- fied by knowing that his partner hal singleton diamond,
WOMANSENSE
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YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
BORN WAY. Bless Your tufe 1.
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Your thinking and actions and cannot be happy to let things be as they arch Although not setindly A reformer, you have malw of the characterislee If one.
You may be content to ex- hub this contenery by writing or Jeclawing in support at your ideas
YA BE B Evminine ex arc altractive and magnetic, and yo exert influence AFROTI
By STELLA
that you always hold to your high ideal for one with your ability to lead must make sure to lead in the right direction He homest and sincer with vourneli D well AN with others.
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no-trump, this singleton would be a weak spot. At a spade contract, however, the singleton would give South a chance to trump his worthless diamonds with dummy's small trumps. For this reason South went on to gume in spades instead of no. trump.
The play fulfilled South's ex- pectations. He won the open- ing heart lead with dummy's ace, took the ace of diamonds, and ruffed a diamond in the dummy. He next got to his hand with the queen of clubs and ruffed another diamond with dummy's other small trump. Declarer next eashed the top clubs, die- cording a small heart from his
This enabled him to ruff heart in his hand with the dence of trumps.
South next ruffext another low diamond with dummy's ace of trumps.
By this time South had taken nine tricks and still had the king of spades In his hand. The game was therefore Assured, ་ལ་ and South Navarro,
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upturn warned against
Feb. 20-Mar- 20)- You should be able to get where you want to be going on the job Bend sincere efforts
ARIES
lar, 21-Apr. 20) He upright and Bincere Jo All business dealings and you will be able 1 get what you k for
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22}- Don't row your standards for anything or any body Stick to your muna and you will win out.
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VIRGO You may receive some good news in the mail, By being cheerful, you can make someone else happy. log. ТАВКА (Hept. 23-Oct. 22)- This is not a day to shine socially, Haki to routine tasks and take it easy this evening.
SCORPIO
(Oct.
22)
23-Nov. You have some high-dying ideas but you may discover
that it is better to be a lttle more practical. SAGITTARIUR (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)- No matter how confusing things are pt honio or at the office,
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A look from these eyes can boost or break the biggest
names in fashion.
And
London. buy.
what American most
powerful women want to buy in what the American dress trade wants to woman in the world of
make. fashion came into London recently unnoticed.
That is why her entry into She
a dress show in London, Paris, left-again unnoticed, Sel-
Rome, or New York is Uke the dom Interviewed and never entry of royalty. photographed, she is a tiny woman with a name like ni Arabian sweetmeat-Carmel Snow.
She is so deadly accurate in her forecasts of what fushions women will wear a year ahead, that half the American dress trade depends on her judgment,
SHE CHOOSES.. IT SELLS
She is the only woman in the world, they say, powerful enough to make or break * top-rank dress designer.
The Snow Queen sits serene on the one upholstered couch-
the last to arrive, the first to leave, knowing that should she be late she is the one person for whom a top-rank dress designer will hold up his show.
And if at the close she bestows a kiss on the designer and a promise to come back and see the collection uguin.......... vippee! he's in the money for the next six months anyway.
So what does it take to get and hold a job where a stroke of your pen can make fortune for a designer?
THE SECRET
She
has "pale mauve hair and carnation chooks," She will wear a fiery orange sull for morning dress show and change into an electric-violet one for the afternoon collections,