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•JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Bid Placed In Wrong Hand
TODAY'S
By OSWALD JACOBY
hand was played about a year ago in the Life Master Individual Cham- Ipionship.
Some of the experts bid the hand as shown in the bidding diagram. Theic argument was that no-trump counts for more than nity auf, that the South hand has no rung value, and that the hand should therefore play at no-trump,
RECORDS BY PETER BUCHAN !!
• BY THE
WAY
By Beachcomber
PEOPLE 10
to
jot seem understand that, for reas sons 1 security, the Board of
Trade is compelled to be tlcent, about eur "enormous strategle réserves of enator oll."
What is known for certain is when the Clam of Chowdah acquired a half-shora in the castor oil wells stolen from the
Gobortu. Owph of millions of gullons of the oil were purchasel for the castors of barrack-room
It furniture. was found, however, that none
rs, a job-let of the castors,
FC- purchased after being bought resold, fitted the chairs and sofas. The oil was, therefore, transferred to a strategic ro verve pending the sale of the
to useless There is one point in play tenders. "True"
privato ing the band at no-trump in a
Bald an on- ein of the Boari, "is the life- blood of our modern cconenty": an obvious reference to the frozen Egyptian porridge changed for 480,724 bushels of Indonesian prawns which had begun to deteriorate. Music and animals
This argument didn'! impress their opponents.
The
enemy opened hearls and took the Bral five tricks, defeating this "ex- peri" contract.
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Opening tead~ ♥ Q
tourtumment, but only if North plays the band as declarer. AL rubber bridge, South would raise to four spades at his second
A! tournament turn.
play. South should bid three clubs to show strength and to hint thut
he is willing to hear a no-trump bid if North can take care ní the hearts.
North can tuke ten tricks at elther spades or no-trump. if
A MAN who, according
Ex-
to the
complaints of his neighbours. played Incessant gramophone music labore which was of Its feed pilt Suret as well have ent crova- hugged the turban, and tried to fure In woon out of the ground by play- hg hit flute. t not the ministe waltz, he the that make patient training, with reward and Bunishment nicely djunted. Not even a Bach fogue era nuke cowa the pestering lies, and an Partnich would rouner ent a violin than listen to 1 Arlog, of whom En i writers ––
Carmine
currentes
aquan-
tenebat
carried to
Acton, 1 true, was Thenatvin PAL SE dolphla's unck after
playing I lyze to ft.
buy that
A WAITING GAME
FOR MR ITURBI
the music is good.
USE TURBI,
Spanish pianist whose income reached £200,000 a year when he was making hims, rolled his sorrowful eyes and tried to light his pipe between sips of Scotch and, bouts of vehemence,
"I cannot stand popic who say they do not like this, sort of music or that ́sort of music.
"I cannot and artists who clise their planos or their violin cases and say, I will not play for three, four months-i going to take a vacation.
am
"After I was l last year. ... -You know? Six doctors told me I had a heart attack before they he found it was due to enting the
wrong sort of food.
The tax collectors!" said. "Those people!
"once had a room of my home in Beverly Hills tied as
Ono recording studio,
thx minn said he could cut my Income tax down bechuse of it. Then years later along comes another one who says the first man should not have done 11. And I had to pay."
4
"Well, after 1 was in people were Always telling me to play just one concert a week. I tell them it would be harder than playing one a night.
"It is like boxing. This new idea of having three-minute rounda and two minutes to rest, It is not good. The boxer would lose the feel
...the rhythm."
During his tour here Iturbi may make some new reords.
And when the tour is over? "More recitals on the Con- tinent, then back to Ameries. there will ben nim
"Perhaps WHICH IS IT?
perhaps
How much docs Iturbi make now he is just doing recitals?
"Enough," he said, trying to light his pipe again, "enough to live on. I have had offers of Alms, but
said no. I have
In America now it is not worth my Maybe while to make a film. You get waiting paid a lot of money, but
you even television.
the end up by having to pay inx collector almost as much * PIANOS dominate the week you get paid for the nim.
"I had my fun out of pictures. Powell Now I shall wait until I get a Paul Quinichette, script that in right and play the right music."
Delphin was some sea-god, and hack A Rudar
더 egatust the milors who tried to murder. Arion for his money
Drunk in charge
A
WAN
of a reindeer
other
LAPI
Bred The Hav In Finland for "driving a reinteci whtie drunk." wonder whether he was miting on its back. ginking the horns like handlebarı apel uedialling friends; or merely walking wastendily behind U. emgU7 Joudly Lapp music-ball song Breaking point
AN write about the strain A co-writer's life reculled f
r;
me the case of the writer who, s he plays the diamonds wisely.
The end of a ling description af North can hardly play the hand
queris arriving at a party, full of ke The Bopplestones came badly enough to Jose Jour in their Roll," and won, suddenly spades, which is by far the safer lost hats nerve, threw enution to the contract, but there is nothing winds, and closed * ACCOURI
Ino imtorial words, "and the | wrong with trying for the extre
Potalus arrived in their Jackets" 10 points of a no-trump contract as long as the right member of the partnership plays the hand.
♥÷CARD Sensen♦
Q-The birding has been:
East South West North
2 Diamonds Pare
You, South, hold:
?
AB45 9752 452 475432
What do
you do?
A-Bid two no-trump. Partner may have game in his own hand, and you would forfeit his conf- dence forever if you failed to keep his two-bid open.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
4643 $732 075482 402
What do you do?
Answer on Monday
TARGET
U V O
AE
B
H
R
with
How many
words of
fate letters
or more ́ LAN
from
the
jetters in the squats on
the left
making cael word the latters In each of the *mall squares may be ased ones only. Each word must contain the forse letter in the centre square, and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the words;
ins. No pluralsi no fore you no proper Hahirs. TARGET: 22 words, good th word, very good, 28 wonts, crestient, Relution on Monday.
THURSDAY'S SOLUTON: Atheism Goat faith fake fame famih fast late feast feat Ant haft hake hamite haste hule heat make MAKESHIFT mash mashle utesk mast nie incat mistake ante sake Fame rate neum acut shaft shake aham shame sheaf skate ntake steak stram take tame task teak teaIN,
DARTWORDS
MARE look at the
Towards the START
chols. You are
Riven Atarting point HERE
with the word. Woo)D- CUTTER. and Your puzzle la to get to the word in the centre- GRIN. You must use
all the other words in such a way that they follow one of the ebr rujas listed below.
RULES
1. The word may be
ausgrani of
an
the
word that preveden 15
nym of the word that
2. It may be a syno
precedes 12.
. It may be found
by adding dab jetter 20, Aubtroting one
UT
letter from, or eliang. 10g one letter in blie proceding word.
4. It maƒ ba associ
ORM WOODCUTTE
ION
CHOP
HAND
GRIN
SONG
LONG HAM
BAND
ated with the preceding
word in saying, simile, mut phor, or sosiation of ideas
B. It may form with the pre- ceding word a game of well. known person, place, or thing in fset or Betlun.
6. It may be nasociated with
dol
AID
HOP
BELLON
STORE
the preceding word in a title or in the action of, a DOOK: DIBY.
or other composition.
A typical auccession of worda might be form clans fese Ind Shropanire county bounty Queen's Own wou.
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Trio
The Mel (Powell, plano;
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Iturbi, who made his name as serious musician in Brttalti after becoming the bobby users' delight by playing beagle-woogle in a nim, eces not look ke He is the planist. Rasitler who tured planos.
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LISTEN TO: Dennis Lolla I told him I wanted to talk pleasingly sentimental in THE Nixa N 15041) EXTRA DAY new record being issued in Britain-1OSE ITURBI PLAYS POPULAR CLASSICS (H.M.V. ALP (189). He did not know about fi
Beet-
"What is on it?" he asked.
I told him: pieces |
hoven, Falla, Debussy.
"Why, I made these five, six years ago in New York. It is not real high-fidelity recording."
The pieces
criginally were made as 78 r.hm. records. The płono
colour is burde harsh,
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CROSSWORD
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glaring
The lasting
impression
In
"war-
of Iturbi's, magnificent technique.)
Iturbi calls the pieces horses." There is a vigorous battic-lust in the way ho
plays, In the main it
it is the music he
will play during a five-week tour he is making of Britain.
Why not play better music? Iturbi's accent slipbed as he grew vehement again.
"Zere is no and music," said. "Zere is only music.
he
All!
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. PIATESI
Black, 13 pieces.
White, 6 pieces, White to play: mate in three,
Solutio
problem:
to
Thitrallay's
1, Kt (Q4)—BI, any; 2, Q, B, Kt,
or P mates.
1885
N.Y.K.
SEVENTIETH
421
Across
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(4)
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Cousin
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15)
Dosti
1. Describes the
Jealousy. (3-4)
2. Star returning. (4)
monster
Most of Ethel real. (8)
Bip knot for this, 18)
Hellotrope tena the taller. (4).
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(3)
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(3)
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