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This Funny World
DAVE MICH
"Who's the odd character?"
2-18
BY THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
SKED whether Narkover anything, and the only problem what. if any- was following the example to be solved of other schools, und raising it hing, can be dune, even if it is On what we fees, Dr Saint-Alliek hesitated, only something.
Then he said, "Owing to the do, or do not do, may well des Imprisonment of On unprece. pend the outcome of whatever dented number of parenta in happens or does not happen " recent yours, we decided not to charge a fixed fee. We reckon The magic cream
that
are
the wealthier tuays loset ugh al cards to make up the difference Then there always parents who pay con- siderable sums 10
suppress Information we may happen to
have about them Money als comes in from various activities
be in which it would not
the public interest for me to dis- close, as they are not all con- the nected with extention pradenie sense of the word.” A Governor if the School com- merited Seldom has
a hend- inaster spoken more frankly "
Disgraceful ping-pong
THE
Er-debutante Cornello Grap Applied cosmetica night
days.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1950.
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
East Ducks Trick To Set
"--
By OSWALD JACOBY
AVERY
EV experienced player
knows about the holdup play. You refuse to take a trick when it is offered, holding up a winning card until a more cult-
able (mo.
In today's hand we see an un- usual holdup. The play was ex- ecuted by a défender. It had lo be timed perfectly.
ace.
West opened the king of hearts and continued with the South ruffed and drew three rounds of trumps.
Declarer next led a club and fnessed dummy's jack. East wen with the queen and returned a heart, making South use his Afth
trump.
South now led a club tʊ dum- my's king and East let dummy hold the trick. East was Sam Katz, well-known Miami bridge export, and no stranger to selence of the holdup play.
the
Now declarer had to get pat of dummy a nehow to continue
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Yet her plain and homely face Remained a positive disgrace Then someone, pitying hT
might
And culling her
fright
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perfect
Said, "Here is something that
would seem
To be the perfect
vanishing
shrieking
with
Hubbed the stuff in with all
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credm."
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delight
South
West
North
East
her might,
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Pass
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Pass
And
vanlshed,
muttering.
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have
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THE mobbing of referees and
ampires Beems
10 relaxed the discipline 1: kinds of sports and games.
Today we hang our heads in shame as we read the report of the incident in Singapore, where n British ping-pong team refused to eat its sandwiches until they had been tasted by an opponent This fear of poison is utterly un-British," sald a spokesman at Ping-Pong House yesterday. There are also stories of paths
at the table, undignified
Krim-
aces. nets tampered with, stad
Hysterical outburst
"The
changing-room. Ata a chess match
in
Weymouth, a
found to be using
player
an
whe extra queen, and two marked pawns.
Mrs Wratch hits out
THE uncensored
statement of
the Foreign Secretary that to be some action will have taken to preserve peace in the like a Expert observere
Middle East
thunderclap.
may
4hat the
Came
fre
"What a mess?"
CHESS PROBLEM
By A. P. EERKES
Black, 10 pieces.
White, & pieces, White to play mate in tipo, cleared for inaction. Speaking
Solution to Saturday's said: at Tiverton, Mrs Wretch would go far as to say that problem* mulers omedlung is done, things 1, P-K6 1 are bound to happen. The crisis 7, cannot be adved by not doing (ch.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
nature.
MONDAY, APRIL 9
In audition
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By STELLA
BORN today, you have a dominating itkee and dislikes and are not afraid Bon to command, you to show thein. You may find that do not take orders with any kind of cultivating a litŭo social tict will krabe. Unless you can be the leader, smooth the road for you. you would much prefer not to play! Your vitality and stoming are strong
to executive ability, and once you set out to accomplish you
exceptional Januaĺ something. your determinations will dexterity and would probably enjoy you through to a successful a hobby in which you could make Yet, despile all these use of this gift. Sometimes, with you. conchision. positive traits, yin have a genuine a hobby could be turned into Imenditness and would. under no second," well-paying vocation. circumstances, hurt another in-
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Efrem Your ambitions are high, but they man:
Zinballst,
Vip! Int: do not encompass the techniques of Charles Pierre Baudelaire, pos; Olin
sculptor: walking roughshod over your nearest L. Warner,
and Thomar Live Meghan, silent screen star. competitor. Rather, you will kim at even, chance and then win out in an open Aghi! Your impulses To find what the stars have in are near the surface and at times lore for you tomorrow, select your You say and do things which you 'birthday far and read the comes- regret almost the next instant. You ponding paragraph. Let your birth- women," especially, have strong day star be your daily guide.
TUESDAY, APRIL 10,
st
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words of
letters
of more
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You make
from the
letters in the 10mare on the left? In making each
word the
the clubs. He cashed the ace of diamonds and ruffed a dlanond, last trump. thus using up his South couldn't make trick. He was down two.
WOMANSENSE
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How Do You Answer A
Child's Questions?
By GARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.
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It