This Funny World
YOUR BIRTHDAY
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4
THE CHINA. MAIL, | MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 4, 1957.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Submarine. Play Torpedoes East
By OSWALD JACOBY
THE late Walter F. Wyman of
Boston was one of our great- est card players and most inter- |esting writers. Today's hend wan played by Walter in the very early days of contract and Illustrates how to develop a squeeze play by losing A trick deliberately.
Walter won the opening heart Tead in dammy and East dis- carded a low spade. Walter as hamed that Enst must have started with dive spades to make this play so that spades' would st be stopped. This left him with only 11 tricks and sinceze wont be necessary for The 12th.
Just to confirm the spadle sit- union Walter cashed the ace and then led clubs. When both
By STELLA opponents followed to the third
BORN today, you have the repala one of the wellist medium. But it
and
tion for being Bonest Kiraightforward. Yes. since emotional natute so strong, you are apt to be tempestuous and rven temperamental in your dally re- belos tule. Always try to look on the right side of things, for oner you re into a depressed inned, yast flod it diment to get mu! You may find that your nervous mergy often extend your physical strength ha
at such yond maduronéo," and it is i Time that you becvine 141 Udy and even tenperamentai.
Since you are ingenious, inventive and resourceful, you always have a solution to a problém. Con-
can becerie a deterrent if you allow it to distort the everyday shots of Being. There are other Umen when you are so amalyttend that you weigh the pros and cònt of a problem för in long that you delay action beyond te proper moment.
You
cle essentially a homebody and will want a family of your uwti, Wed at an early age to that during your most Rionally-lective years
• DES 35-vou will have the comfort and inspire- fun at your own family group. Yout devation to those whom you love is outstarktina.
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sequently, others are very ap! 16 were dunia Keene, sctor: Bobby look to you for help and advice,
Breen, ringer: Will Rogers, humai
You are netually better at wolvur: Eden ports. author Samuel the problems of others than you are at Biding a quick malulen to your
nunderstand own Sympathelle
Ing. you would do well in Fome advisory capacity.
Kimentially pa kleails! you are apt to dramatise even the Bimallest events in Rte. This perves П Lo purpose if you am going to pelect
M. Peck, poet; John Branch, stajes- mang | Lucha Robinson, early New York Governor; Stephen Fleid, jurist; and George P. Shaver, inventet.
To find what the stars. Have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday Ear and read the corger- ponding paragraph, Let your birth- uny mar be your daily guide.
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BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 33-Dec. 221- There are fine prospects if you take the initiative and work hard at soine ubjective, Courtship also is favoured. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) Be progive it your approach to a job and you will ut at thing works out to your advantage. AQUARTUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19-
Take
SYSTY.
a positive attitude toward things, plan carefully, and the execute your schedule erently,
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)- Don't deviale 100 far from your normal pathway. Initialing new pro- čusz- ecure just now inay cause fusion
ARIES (Mar. IL-Apr.. 20 Develop nose latent talent and act You will and you are
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on a decisiett han average profiters. I TAURUS (Apr. 21-May ZE)- Domenic affairs may call for selfon on your part. Perhaps atteminga lecture this evening will be benefi cal.
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be romance! Expect the unexpected ---and have fun! Chance of pace is beneficial.
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Walter simply led his nine of hearts and the stage was set for # squeeze agains; East. West won the trick but there was no returned defence. He actually a third heart.
Walter won that rick and laid down his last club. He dis- carded a low diamond from dummy and East was unable to guard bolli diamonds and spades.
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Incidentally. Walter called this the submarine squeeze which seems a most appropriate
name. The low heart lead was of course the submarine play.
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What do you bid?
A—Two hearta. The opponents may find a save in spades bot you must fey to show your great strength.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You hold the same hand in third seat. What is your opening bkl?
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THE WAY .
by Beachcomber
WHEN I Tead: "His eldest WI
daughter, who is a milk maid on a collective farm, is 110 years old," I naturally suspected a printer's frolle.
It was tempting, but unrealis te, to think of the old mald (if I may so call her, without dis-
about respect) shambling
the
byre. But further reading re- vealed that her Russian father
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DRIVERS LOOK LIKE THEIR CARS?
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The Chase In The Cellar
-Heap Big Hunter Has Heap Big Trouble-
By MAX TRELL
[IAWATHA, The Wooden
HIAW
Indian Boy, came running
up to Knarf, The Shadow Boy, and Teddy, The Stuffed Bear.
"I'm going hunting," Hiawatha said.
Hiawatha
"I'm going to huni a Mouse," sald the Cat,
Hard Look
At this, Teddy burst out
The laughing.
Cat 1urned around and gave Teddy a hard
went behind the look. bookcase. He came oul 赶 "Why are you laughing?" the moment later with his bow Cat asked. slung over his shottider and a quiver of arrows strapped to his waist.
and Knarf
Teddy asked what Hiawatha
he was planning to hunt for.
Heap Big Hunter
"Don't Hiawatha,
"Because," said Teddy, "hunt- ing a Mouse is the easiest thing In the world."
"You think so?" sold the Cal.
can "Anybody
catch Mouse, cold Teddy.
Knaf said he agreed with Teddy.
"You can catch a Mouse with
"Let's all go We soon see
know yel,"
a trap," he sold. mid
Hiawatha said: "Going with friend of mine. im heap big hunter." hunting together.
Knart and Teddy followed if it is easy or hard to catch a
Mouse." Hiawatha out of curiosity to seg who is blg hunter" frlend The Cat agreed to lead the
through the dark cellar. way
The Arst thing that happened was that Teddy tripped over box at the back of the cellar and bumped his head.
was.
They
followed Hiawatha down the hull and down the cellar steps. At the bottom of the steps, they heard him talk
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CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
(He. (283)
problem by E. Boswell (Brisbane Courter, 1926), White anates in two,_<
London 'Expraan 'Borcizo
A
few very old friends in for a celebration, Foreign affairs
who
thinks he is a reincamation of Victor Hugo, an eye-witness ac count of the weighing of a plie of old saucepans at a wedding- breakfast in Stevenage, a draw- THE stroke of genius THER
which ing of Vesuvius in eruption by a gave General Speldel the child of sevca, a new Way of command of the European land teaching Flemish, and a prize of forces raises the question of a nine 216. itns of used tram- successor. "Why hot a Russian flekets for the person who con general acked an tip-to-date invent a way of boiling in Ogr felter-writer. The reply came, In cold water. evidently from an expert on
Europech affairs, "Russia is not Unprofitable faux par
A member of Nato. Is not Mra
confusing it with UNO?" A RACING motorist who re-
bound his
ceived a beautifully May I suggest that Mrs should now answer, "If Russia set of Tolstoy's works for is not a member of Nato, it is a outstanding performances, in- disgrace to us all. Is this what cluding the alleged cleaning of we call international peace?"
his teeth with Toolhijoy, boosted the wrong preparation in a Hypothetical facts for all toaletul little speech at the pre- sentation in the Becotlan Hail, 15 the earth oblong? Cerlain "I always uso Wilodent," said
scientists based their ealcula- ho. Result, a beautifully bound · tlons about the sham moon on set of Strindberg's plays from "I shall have to Assumption that the earth. Witodent. the was flat. Others reminded them learn to read," commented the that it was round. But the very idol of the track.
"Am ready now, Big Hunter," Iliawatha was saying,
By this time, Knart, and Teddy had reached the bottom of the steps. They saw that the big hunter was the Cat!
The Cat didn't have any bow
The next thing that happened was that Knart fell into coal scuttle and rolled into a pile of old newspapers.
"Stop thin racket!" said he Cat, glaring around. "Can't you see where you're going?"
"It's plich darh" said Knari or arrows. He didn't have any and Teddy.
"I can
well," Eun, stick, spear or sword.
sce perfectly said the Cat. the Cal had was claws.
"The trouble Knark sald to, the Cut: "What with you two hunters is that are you going to hunt, Cat?" you can't see in the dark."
All
Rupert and Rusty-
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Rupert is enjoying Rusty's make- w heard. Come on, thin, to, believe games, and, reaching, 4 exciting!" But by the time they further tale, they, peep over it, reach the cliff edge Blackie ** way, there's the sea he has disappeared again. My, wha cries.
a tarrila drop to that rocky "And,that cottage. And surely there's your little dog shore," mys Rupert. " Yes, and Blackie on the clif 1*** *So he there is no way down to that a didn't go house." says Huaty, 'little bay,” says Rusty,
· Farhaps he has followed the man
JAN QIGHTS MESRAYED
Cat bumped his head against the cellar wall.
"I sve line," said Hiawatha. He suddenly thought he saw something maving and fired his
arrow.
Fired His Arrow
"Owl shouted the Cat. "You shot that arrow at met You hit me in the head!"
By this time, the ikree hunters realised that they did not know as much about mouse- catching as they thought they did.
But even the Cat was not as big a hunter as Hiawatha hud sald he was.
The Cat chased the Mouse all across the cellar from one end to the other. But the Mouse ran down its hole and the Cat bumped his head against the collar wall.
"Even catching a Lion isn'i is haid as catching a Mouse," sald the Cot.
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HEY Bay that women grow like their dogs and men resemble their horses. But have you ever thought how drivers take after their cars?
chose eight people, wrote down the kind of car they most resemble. then rang them up to discover what car they do, in fact, drive.
Here are my findings, not too wide of the mark it seems:
AGATHA CHRISTIE, I was
but slipped up on the make,
I reckoned a Pontiac, but it is
Plymouth.
And me? I ride in so many taxis on. my job I feel. I'm beginning to look like one.
-By Anno Scott-Jamon
Deborah Lets Her Hair Grow
DEBORAH KERK
has
back on the
and
right here. It is a four-year-old classic hairstyle. She wears black Humber. I was wrong her goldeny-brown hair in a about the
year, though. Ichiggon. "Once I used to thought, with all those success" wear my hair short ful thrillers, it would be the
But I soon stopped curly. Jaffat model!
going to the hair-dresser when I was touring America with Tea and Sympathy.
MARGARET LEIGHTON, In the luxury model class definite ty. I plumped for a coach-bull Bentley in shades of beige, Bul 1 was wrong. It is a five- month-old Rolls, old gold in rolour.
CHARLES LAUGHTON, Right again. He looks like an ancient Cadillac driver to me: In fact, shares 1048 model with wire Elsa Lanchester,
DOROTHY TUTIN, Hopeless ly of the beam here 1 se
Miss Tulla
t bright-red hubble car, But she's stin driving a 1931 Siddeley.
WHITE.
WILFRID HYDE Full marks again. I guessed right with an unclen! Rolls,
"Small-town hairdressers in the U.S.A. are frankly far from sensitional. I had to do it myself.
"I let it grow after a long argument with my hairdresser. le said. 'You won't have it long I sold I would, I wanted to be able to manage it myself if I found myself in the wilds of Airlea or somewhere.".
She is pleased with her new Armstrong-kals, but led It best when she
was
the playing
Tu fa "Heaven Knows Mr Allison.**
"Then I had it cropped very; very short all over my head, just like a young boy. It was wonderiul to be rid of that perpetual nogging worry about one's appearance, to bo able to wash it through at a moment's notice, just like my husband who wanders in and says: "Hos family anyone got any shampoo?
DR EDITH SUMMERSKILL.
Right, too, with a Hillman, But I put it at five years old, not
seven.
JOHN MILLS. This was my biggest mistake. I wrote down Daimler, comfortable saloon. Actually it's a Mercedes sports modeL
"Perhaps tht t's. why men are always so much mone BON RANDELL. 1 got the relaxed and nonchalant than colour right--blatant sugur pink women."
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