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"This Funny World
Stack Tyrell
"Let's see your licence - I know you're in there!"
YOUR BIRTHDAY
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958.
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Long Suiter Is No-Trump Hand
By OSWALD JACOBY
SALLY JOHNSON of
Went-
port, Conn., is one of the low player who possesses the abilly to visunitše portner's hand and to find a reason to get partner to be declarer when he should be.
Take today's hand as an ex- ample, Sally bind 8-2-2-1 dis- tribution. Not a very normal hand to let one's partner play no-trump but still that turned out to be the right contract.
South's one-diamond opening and two-dlamand rebld, were normal. 1in three no-trump was also rather normal but some- what of an underbid. When Svity continued to four hearts Snail looked his hand over once more and decided that maybe there would be a slam. 1 king of hearts looked like mighty good card. Hence, South raised Sally to five hearts. starled Heres where Sally
.....
› By STELLA 6 reconstrue! her partner's hand. It looked as if he would have a good diamond suit and
WOMANSENSE
Even The Leggiest Girl
needs a good
supporting cast
by
Anne
Edwards
FRIDAY, MARCH 14
BORN Today, you have been givenj
by the stars talent winch akin to genius, but it is still up to you in develin 41 to 194 umest." Mum, the scieners, and feature are three of the deles in which you ore likely to show distinction You have one of the base clarament dies which sigcity suevesa, am abllis to work very hired for what you want. Yurt appear to huve vrdless This makes T
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To incl what the stars have in State for 3ou tonorrow, select your Irtisday star and seat the corres ponding paragraph Let your birth- day or be your daily guide.
SATURDAY, MARCH 15
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CHESS
By LEONARD BARDEN
(He $363)
From actual play; White to move and wEIL.
Solution No. 6366: 1 Q—R$ (threat 2 X-K(2), RxKt ch; 2 PXR, or X=Kd; 2 ke-2. or K-303 KE-01..
AQUARIUS Jan
21-Feb. 19) Watch these dellars if you are sending there weekend away from You can still have a good me on a budget!
TARGET
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be at least one nine-letter word in the 11 No plurals: no foreign words: no proper games. TODAY'S TARGET: 15 words, Good 20 words, very good; 27 worda,excclient. Bon Clea
tomorrow.
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he also needed the ace of spades ctulas and king of spades. Pro- bekly he would have the king of hearts to justify his belated heart ralse,
Sally
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In that case no-trump would be as good a contract or even a better contract than hearts. | Eight-card suit and all
went to five no-bump
the South continued to trump slam.
West enved a little something from the wreckage. He opened the ace of spades aml held South to six no-trump, It Sally had merely bid to six hearts there would have been a far
Ifferent story. East almost surely would have opened the queen
slam spades and the heart would have been down one trick,
VCARD Sensens
ABOVE
The Leggy Girl needs a new
slant on undies...
... SHORTER, straighter, and shaped to diminish the Pictured here is curves.
the newest nylon shift that has no waist at all. Special- ly designed to go under the Leggy Girl's new dress, it will be in the shops 9008,
price about 22s. 11d.
EVE
LEFT
The Leggy Girl needs
a new slant on sweaters ...
NOT shaped to em- phasise the bust nor straight and sloppy. The new kind of swenter stops short above the hips, curves in gently at the waist. This one, worn here with a Kay Kendall shirt, is made in nine dif- ferent colours, and costs
£2 158, 9d.
VEN the leggiest legs cannot get by without a full supporting cast. It is not enough just to turn up your hem two inches and expect to be in the latest fashion, though it is a start. The truth is that the leggy look is a symbol of a whole new attitude to elegance, and it begins with longer legs and shorter skirts and flatter bosoms, but it includes, too, a new cut in clothes, a new line in hair-styles, and a new chassis underneath.
NOT A THROWBACK
Of
Q-The bidding has been: West North
South Eut Double Redbl. ? You, South, hald: A65 10570 $9432 4301
What do you do?
A-Bid one heart. You hare a terrible hand but it behoover you to bid a beari to show your part- ner a preference.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:
485 4864 0432 10 876
What do you do?
Auswer Tomorrow
THE • WAY .
by Beachcomber
SCIENTIST has discovered
that a mosquito, dying at 23% miles an hour on a 40 per cent supar diel, covers 450 miles to the gallon).
waying about in a dess
to invell u
bathing-
dustbin.
At last public opinion has forced her to stop
wasting
her talents, and to find a larger. fleld for her activities. Brains,
should be not glamour,'
her
"Now they stand with heads stylists, flung back, and hold their bodies knitwear
they don't Jewellers, well. They walk,
the dress trade, the
manufacturers, the handbag
tho
de-
EVERY INCH
It is a mistake to imagine mince. And even when they riggers, the lingerie innkers,
can see the and the milliners. that the new, long-legged, wear a Back you flat-chested shape is a re- Brigitte Bardet underneath." turn to the 1920's. It is not,
So os the new leggy lovely Cecil Beaton summed up the cames into sharper focus, the difference when he said the beauty and fashion industries of other day: "I adore these Europe and America change three of now short skirts. But they their course are not a throwback. In the "twenties, girls
Three examples of the way these industries have suit her.
changed gear to meet the new demand, are illustrated on this though n Already (as reported the ather page, proving that. hunched day)
shoe fashion revolution may begin the stocking and their shoulders and pushed industries have seen what is in with two inches more leg, it is 1t includes not complete uni their heads forward and for them.
every inch of a girl-from the placed their feet daintily to-
top of her new curly bob to the gether.
tip of her new pointed toe.
Today I report that to have The Beauticians, the hair
BOYS' AND
Is There A Dragon?
-Teddy and Knarf Ask Hiawatha To Decide
By MAX TRELL
TNARF, the Shadow-Boy with Turned-About Nome, and his two friends Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the -Wooden Indian Small-Sized were in the middle of an argu- ment.
This statement, which I report without embroidering it, will no doubt take the layman's mind slogan." off a possible sting, when he hears the
of an A misunderstanding faint twang violin, the mosquito's
LOOKING for a new "angle" signature tune. It should now be
Dawn Kedgarce's publicity possible in calculate the number
agent suggested that she should of decibels in the buzz of a fly fed on burned cork shavings.
collect pictures. "My heuse p "But, Teddy," Knarf was soy- full of them," she sald It was
ing for the tenth time, "1 fell Brave gesture
then explained that by pletures you there Isn't Any The nose plays its part in he did not mean signed photo-animal" clear apetch. (Evening paper). Graphs of wealthy admirers. Paintings were the iden. Old WHO
HO realised that better than Masters and French Impres- the elephant who waa Eloniais, "Go to the galleries britten in the trunk by a budger? and photograph
some," sho With a brave attempt to laugh said No, said the agent. She off, the great beast said, "1 must buy the originals. "What's huppe hou hink hal's bunny." the use of them?" she asked.
Mimsic Stopcorner, M.P.?
"11's culture," sald the man. "Oh," said Dawn. "why didn't first2" Trivia Buy so at
You
HE news that Mimsic Tansy, of course, has many ex- Slopeorner Inay cartest pensively bound books, on her Torrington as a Labour-Liberal- dressing-table. When opened, Tory Independent is fluttering each discloses a neat recoptsele the political rateotes. It would for toilet accessories, especially be the first time. a Plastic large edition of "Wor and Dustbin-Lad Queen had asked Fence."
for the affeltion of the electors,
Interviewed yesterday Mimale Printer's frolle said: "I do so think the in-
fluence of women in politics is
SKIRT described as ending
bucal, wines being as they A. 200 inches from the ground
mean
arc. It is the common sense of is probably a "new look" for we women that is what is giantesses. Or does wanted, like I said." When Charlie Such, heard, the new he said: "This is better than
that I intended to be worn
Chubby Finger
"I don't say anything," Inwathu. "T
busy this arrow,"
snil
mukion
Must Docide
"But you've got to decide for us," said Knarf,
You can make your old arrow later," said Teddy.
khart and Teddy pulled Hla" such watha titis way and that until he said in a disgusted volce: "All, right. I'll decide."
"I tell you." sald Toddly. pointing a chubby finger into Knarf's chest, "That there is mucit. an animal."
"All right," said Knarf. "We'll let Hiawatha deelde."
"Very good," said Teddy.
Hiawatha, who was sharpen- ing a wooden arrow about the
size of a matchstick, looked up when he heard his name men- tioned.
"What's that?" he said
Knarf sald: "We want you to
19 decide, H, whether there suti ón, animal or not. I say there im't"
...
"And I say there is," Bald
by women at the top of lad- ders, or on stufs at a carnivalt Teddy.
ABOVE
The Leggy Girl needs a new slant on hair-styling.
The latest cut, pictured here, is in three · lengths - a heavy eyelash-level fringe brushed to one side, earlip level at the sides. And long enough to cover the nape of the neck at the back to accommo- date the back-of-the-head hala,
GIRLS' MAGAZINE
"That's good," said Knart. "Is there such an animal or isn't there?"
"What animal ore you talking about?" Hiawatha asked:
Novor Hoard Of It
"I never heard of anything by that name," said Hinwatha.
"There, I told you so," shout- Knart and Teddy were great- ed Knarf triumphantly. "He sald ly surprised to discover that there isn't any such animal." Hiawatha didn't know what
name."
animal they were talking about. "That Isn't what he said at nil," sald, Teddy.. "He sald he "Go ahead and tell him," never heard of anything by that Knart said to Teddy.
Teddy sat down next to Hia-
Hiawatha was again starting. watha und said: "Please listen to return to his arrow-making, very carefully, you old Injun, but Knort and Teddy demanded The animal we're talking about that he explain exactly what he is a dragon."
meant when he said he hadn't heard of anything by that name. "Bah!" said Hiawatha, which getting meant that he pretty angry, "What's a dragon look key"
"Is a what?" asked Hiawatha. "A dragon," repeated Teddy,
Rupert and the Lost List-88 ·
Rupert fallows the toy stor man to different parts of the great store and, holding the now list, ho checks every parcel as it is taken down, making sure that the right address in put on each. Then he hands over the list so that it can be turned to Golly, and witli afan
atoreman's help all the presents are brought together. No sooner is that done than the little Cowboy strides in. Huh, so our slow. coach of ascertiary has got a mave on at last, he grins. "He's given me this tube of medicine for the reindeer, so now,-let's go. LÈS DIGITA, ASSERYEP
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Teddy pointed chubby fingen at Knart's chest.
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"That sounds like a railroad "I'll tell him," said Teddy, no train," said Hiawatha. "Is Knart began to speak. "I'll tell dragon anything like a railroad you exactly what a dragon looks train??", like," he said to Hiawatha, "No other animal in the world looks Hike it. It's got a head at one end and a tall at the other and nothing in between."
Like A Worm
"That sounds like a worm," Bald Hiawatha, "is a dragon liko a worm?"
"No," crled Knarf.
"No" cried Knart. "Yes!” cried Techly.
"Well," said Hiawatha at last this is what I decide. If a dra- gon looks like a worm and maydo ke o rallroad train, then thero is such a thing as a dragon. But if it docan't, then a dragon isn't a drogon at all bit just a worm and a railroad train."
All this sounded so mixed up that Kharf and Todily were glad to
to let Hiawatha go back
"Yes," cried Tedly. "It's like sharpening his arrow. But who an enomous werm, a mile long ther there was such a thing p Fire and smoke come out of its; a chengen or not; was stilla, n head and it roats when it goes much a mystery as it was at tho Fover the growin
beginning of the argument.
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