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JACOBY ON BRIDGE®
Bridge Cake Had
And Eaten
BY OSWALD JACOBY
AM indebted "To Dr J, S.
Flynn of Ventura, Calli,
for today's hand.
Dr Flynn war declarer
four spades
West opened the
ace of diamonds and continued
with the Ave of hearts.
Dr Flynn breathed a sigh of relter
und won
with his ace,
East's queen
He laid down hls ace of spades and played a spade to dummy's king. When the queen dropped Dr Flynn claimed the balance of the tricks.
of
was pointed out that if West had played the nee clubs at trick two East would have given him a vehement signal whereupon West could have played second club. Easil
would have won and played a diamond whereupon West would have ruffed and
se the contract.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957.
This Funny World
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
Theodore Reed ib, man-cating crocodile with a charmed chicken and a few grains of saffron rico,
ATTENTION Darne Flora Idac- Zoo director
of Mac- claim it is a great succes. MACLEODS Lood
Leod left Lon-Reed says that monkeys and don airport on September opes find modem civilisation, us A game keeper, who had un- 27 for Perth, Western Australia blg a strain as humans do. successfully hunted the crocodile on the first leg of a world tour He offered the enso of Jasper for two months, told a village which will take her to Canada, for consideration, Jasper had committee: "Rahmari murmured New Zealand and the USA, been growing sour and cranky an incantation and then threw MacLeods in many parts of the us he aged. He took to beating the chicken and rice into the world are arranging celebrations and biling his mate, Hortense. river. The crocodile surfaced, to greet their chief, when, aho But after eating two tranquiliz awon ashore and lay at his feet
kio was trans- visits them in the course of this ing ice creams
in a trance." ATC 30,000 miles trip, A MacLood formed. He and Hortens Wook will begin in Bydney on us happy as newlyweds again,
Reed sald: "I have reconclled - IMAM October 12, the events including
Three cows were couples IMMUNITY slaughtered as a n church service, a garden party, about twenty monkey
sacrifice in Ilorin, and a ceilidh. Before leaving on like that. It makes me feel like
Northern Nigeria, to combat the November for New Zealand Cupid."
sprend of Asian 'iu in the town. Dame Fioru will visit Adelaide,
on the win- The local Emir -led-one Canberra, Hobart and Brisbane. BRIGHT Tun
Imams ¡dows, dear, it get hundred On December 10 she will By to IDEAS
special ting dark, is what prayers against the epidemic. San Francisco. She will visit
to may
be saying Los Angeles before going to
1900, if current ex- Vancouver Island, where she is
Early in periments in luminous glass for DEAD spend Christmas. January she will resume her window panes, giving a 24-hour DOGS tour, spending a month visiting daylight effect, turn out the main elties of Canada, in successfully as expected. cluding Calgary, Winnipeg.
BOB SHOENKE,
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"I believe I've caught my foot in the fan belt.”
West contended that the ace YOUR BIRTHDAY
of clubs lead would have been
a double dummy play and that
his partner was just as likely to hold the
ace of hearts
the king clubs..
as
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reasonably correct
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It
too. All he had to do was to lay down the ace of clubs and see what his partner played. Holding the king of clubs East would play high; not holding the king of clubs East would play loy,
In that intler case West. could try the heart play. He would have found out conclusively that his partner did not hold the club king.
CARD Sense&☀
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Bouth West, North Double Pass 2 ❤
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Double
Far
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Pass
Pass 7
You, South, hold:
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What do you do?
A-Bld three hearts. So much of the strength for your take-out double is in hearts that you can- not stand for the two-spade dou- ble.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You have the same hand, The bidding has been:
East South West North 14 Double
Double Pass
7 What do you, South, do?
Answer on Monday
CROSSWORD
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Acroys
1. Anton amopy the BINOKO?
14-8)
8. A seat, insofar. 14h0
Hort of Beainan who is ready
and wiling? (4)
11. Tunnels, you might say.
1. Very giddy Rosta?
17. Jungio UYCISCO
(8)
(6)
10. Baw by Guálness 1. (8-3)
20, Puling-up. (9)
27. In addition, (4)
23, Sounds A
youngster. (4)
24. Desire was
10. 3)
ite
Dora
polished
stake namo.
1. Do they go to the men with
pur Jobs (4-5)
2. They also sholter to another
kind of crop. (4)
3. Game with polos. (3),
4. All-in-fun clothtua. {}}
B. Nabe ques back to the arch-
blahop? 14-
6. ?lest detuka-but no jerka. (6)
7. He runs for a living-but watchi
that you're not on the wrong- track. (9)
B. Words aald, with one are not
pleasant. (8)
It's a day of big ents. _(B} -
we hundred in out '(3)
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could be !
any place.
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Yosterday'a solution
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5
husbands wives in
Az
By STELLA of America are holding a meet-ers of the Orange Free State last
BORN today, you are one of those whose concentration to &
given task is exceptional. You are willing to work hard for long hours to achieve a goal which you have set before you. Your enthusiasms are vaunting, and once you become embarked upon a cause, you will follow through to the bitter end. You are not one to change horses in midstream and once you have your mind set on something it is that or nothing at all! Second best haa no appeal. Beaten once, you will work all the harder next time, to win.
You have a magnetle personality which draws people to you. and you can become an important influence in the circle in which you move. Your love of nature is strong, and unless you keep it well under control, you may find that you are always becoming involved in some romance which you had not intended. Look carefully before you leap into marriage or you FRAN want reverse your decision when it is too Intel
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Fond of travel, it is likely that you will cover a good portion of the earth in youth. Later on, you probably will setile down and become quite a homebody,
You are inclined to be outspoken in your likes and likes. especially of the latter. While it is a good trait to be frank uni above-board, remember there is no need for hurting the feelings of another. Learn to sugar-cont the pll of criticism. It is Ukely that you will do well in publie life.
Among those born on this date were: Chester A. Arthur, US. President: Jonathan Edward's, noted theologian; John Erskine, author and educator; and Robert F. Parroti, inventur.
To And what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6
LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23)-- ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)- Get some well-deserved rest to Attention to your devotions this prepare for the busy days morning may give you new ahead. A change of pace will insight and renewed inspiration. effect this pleasantly,
ing in New York.
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Stray dogs fax Miri ita oll-rich Sarawak are getting too smart for cotobers they Bee at the aletit of + man with a gun or noose in hand. So Miri town Toronto, and Montreal, before DEAR Worried at the amount. council has advertised for going to the Maritimes. On DEAD of wheat being eaten by blow-pipe expert-at eight shii!- February the Macleod Society
flocks of finches, farm- ings a day-to pulf death with
poison darts at strays, year engaged aircraft to spray the birds with polaon. The death TIDALA Buenos Aires newe- roll was over six million, PROTESTANT A Northern
This year's crops have been WAVEpaper "El Debate" was unable to appear for the attacked by wheat lice to such first time In 35 years becauso FIVEMILETOWN Ireland
gipsy made an extent that the government the editor, reporters, printem a prediction to the young men may have to import Canadian and the administrative staff are whose fortune he was telling, a
wheat. There is general regret all down with Ariastic u. court was told this week at for the dead finchen which kept Fhomiletown near Belfast
the wheat comparatively free TOBIAS
A Sydnor Um that the from wheat lice Although, in the AND A BEE The prediction was
conduc- tor, Lealey man, who was told by the gipsy process, they consumed a small
Tublan, In percentage of the wheat cars.
has cured his thou- that he was a policeman
matian-by catching bees plain clothes, had a case coming
letting them ating him. Into court which he would win.
Tobias catches bees in Sydney The gipsy was right.
parks, The young
WAS Д
He says they inject a vaccine policeman and he won a case a taxi to take her out of town, with their aling, and that this against the gipsy, Prince Gipsy asked the driver during the vaccine cures rheumatism Lee, who was fined £1 for accepting money for the telling the steering wheel?"
Journey: "What's that clock by
BLINDMAN'S Chargos of fortunes.
Told it was a meter which BEAUTY registered the amount she would
man
DON'T An African woman in WE ALL Livingstone, Northern Rhodesin, who hailed
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and
of tavouritism were made last year
Voice" the with the So this year
PRESIDENT'S When President have to pay at the end of the. at a contest to choose Malaya's PRANKS
Coldca wwa trip, she took fright, opened the "Miss
old door and jumped out of the taxi, switchboard lovely
taken to sweelest "hello".
Truman greeting
The woman was
friend Stanley Woodward, one- timo chier of protocol li State Department and former an ambulanco called by the taxi men. ambassador to Cannda, un the driver.
the hospital with a broken wrist-In the Judges will be five blind
nt
de France, he interrupted by an imanigration ELECTRIC Whenever the old lady in Leicester officer who told Woodward he HOUND could
had
Incoming not lani because his
telephone call the phone did not passport was out of order,
ring-but her dog barked Confusion followed...until I stead. all turned out to be a hoax cook- ed up by Harry Truman himself.
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Engineers found a disconnect- ed wire touching the drainpipe which the dog was chained. Each time the operator Come to Washington's the dog got a shock. SCORPIÓ (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)— TAULUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-ZOO Seck Inspiration and consola Attend sortie
cominhityor | CUPID National Zoo-to see tion in a good sermon this church affair and meet friends
cakes full of blissful
SAFFRON Villagers in Kuan- morning. It can bring mental you may have been neglecting und well-adjusted monkeys.
physlent lately, renewed
officials The zoo
Ice TRANCE tau, North Malaya, passed the hat creams and soft drinks, liberal- GEMINI (May 22-June 21)-ly spiked with "happiness pills," round and collected £12 reward You will
And that a
to monkeys and apes who seem for Malay witchdoctor Abdul operative effort now will bring to be taking life too seriously. Rahman, 07, who caught a 350 better results than playing a lone hand.
and Face strength.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)-There are busy days ahead when pressures will mount, so store up mental and physical energies today.
co-
CANCER (Juny 22-July 23)- Follow your intullions today and then if still perplexed, seek spiritual guidance and problems evaporate.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan
out today 20)-Take time
to make definite plans for the future. Everything moves faster when scheduled carefully,
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) LEO · (July- 24-Aug. 23)— -Let down nervous tensions. If you permit pressures to con- 11's been a busy week — and tinue mounting, there may be there's more activity ahead, trouble ahead. So relax ten- Get set and ready to go again. slong today, Rest
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)—
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)
Take a few deep breaths now Speed will be the essence next and don't do anything today week, so get in some relaxation bul rest! Tomorrow begins an- while you can! In fact, it's o other busy week.
busy month ahead for you.
DOAN today, you have a vivid and dramatic personality. You Dare not the type to do anything by halves. You set your heart on an objective and then you put everything you have into achieving it, Magnetic, witty, original and dynamic, li is likely that you will catapult to an early success in life. Whether or not you maintain it over the years will depend to a large extent upon the lasting qualities of your ambition Just don't be too easily satisfied!
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BY
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THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
CHESS NEWS
by LEONARD BARDEN
e world studente", team championship in Iceland confirmed that the Ruzsan champion Mikhali Tai is a world master in the making. The 20 year-old languages studen: won nearly all als gumes in brilliant style, and the speed of his play had the onlookéra gasping. No one alace Capablanca has had Tal's facility for beating grand- masters with only 16 DT 20 minutes recorded on his clock. which was the time he took to dispose of Larsen, the winner of the Hastings tournament
At the board, Tal's Angera seem to ich to make a move. and he always goes in for wild complicationa Q
50 10 start checkmating attacks at the eurliest opportunity. Lasker holds the record of belog the youngest world champion ever. at 20. but Tal looks capable of doing even better.
the
cooking porridge on anyone offered me £44,000 for to become a professional roof of a re-station the fact
anything from brace-plug that the Albert Hall was
too setting to badminton, I would crowded,
SNAPDRIVER: hesitale less time than it takes
With all to crack a walnut.
respect, m'iud, the bonnet of a car becomes hot in a heat- wave,
COCKLECARROT: SO docy a fire-station root. So does the
I have never understood why the exquisite tedium of playing games should bc its own reward. When I was a stripling Albert Hall, for that matter. I was fond
and of cricket,
GOOSEBOOTE: I put it to when a relative promised me o Sovereign if I made 30 runs I you, Mr Holtspur, that you did not expect, London's trame to became fonder still of the game remain motionless whlie you
and made 53. Even today I tried your egg on the Music, drama and the arts all hold a definite appeal for you,
bonnet but it is most likely that sume form of the theatre be it acting,
would become a golf profes of the car. directing
sional for, say, £50,000, writing for it will become your happlest medium of
HOLTSPUR: Why not? It expression. Since you have great Intellectual curiosity and a
expenses paid; with the single happens every day. sharp wit, you will be able to depict life in sharp focus, whatever proviso that I never had to your medium of expression.
play golf.
In passing
Your Intuitions are exceptionally keen and you should always pay attention to the warnings, for the stars have bequeathed you à mental ender which will warn you of danger if you do not
permit yourself to be persuaded to do something against your best judgment. Never depend upon the decisions of others; make your own and stick to them despite all kinds of pressures.
It is likely that you will have an exclling, and romantic Ilte. You may have more than one opportunity to wed, but once you have made your selection, it is for life. Your loyalties are strong. Among those born on this date were; Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet; Helen Wilis Moody, tennis champlon; Carol Lombard and Janet Gaynor, dctresses; Eugene O'Neĥil, playwright; and Jenny Lind, singer.
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.
... MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
LIBRZĄ (Sept. 24-Oct. 22)-- ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) Tackle domestic and business Progress Is indicated, but take problems with optimism. Try a nothing for granted. You must new approach and you should initiate actions if you want pro- win out
gress to continue. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)— TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)---- Unusual opportunities are offer. You need to be tactful and ed, so be prepared to accept polític at the office this mom- them. Be sure of your judg. Ing. There may be those who ment in the afternoon.
resent your speedy progress. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. GEMINI (May 22-June 21)... 22)-You may combine social, Press your advantages, but give art business interests advan- a thought to procedure this tageously if you are wide
in afternooh. Don't be too hasty making decisions.
In making decisions. CAPRICORN (Dec. 15-Jan CANCER (June 22-July 28)—— 20)-Organise your activities Opportunities are many at the and take the lead. Show initin- ofice, Actually, you can pick tive and you will find your and choose what you want.
Get it! efforts are effective.
AQUARIUS (38m. 21-Feb. 18)
LED (Joly · 24-Aur. 23)-- -In business nad selling, be Scan, a new.contract with a alert to over maccess potentiali cagle eyo, this afternoon. Be A now contract can bring⋅ las murn that you read all the fine erensed, profita.
print.
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PIBORS (Feb, 20-Mar. 20)-- "TIRGO (Aur. 24-Sept. 28)— Financial matters will taka your Mikke plans oueshilly and then full attention this morning, wibere to them this afternoon. When atternOOK COMES, check Dan't deviate or there can duslaluna carefully.
trouble:ahanİ.
The Fried Egg
all
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will probably reduce fries, described his ex- rendars." RHOLTSPUR, the ege correspondence of newspaper There will be fewer periment as scientific, ko the letters saying, "Dear Sir, my freezing of an egg on a pile of piece found a field-mouse is a rubble during a frost. Asked gum-boot yesterday," or "Dear why he chose the bonnet of a sir,
Mrs Elphin's hatred car for his experiment, ho said, curry merely reveals a narrow, "The
pavements were 100 prejudiced mentality." or "Dear crowded."
Sir, could not bus-conductors COCKLECARROT: You might be taught to raise their hats as well advance as an excuse to indy passengera?"
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