JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Bid And Play Shows Science
By OSWALD JACOBY
(OUTH went down 1,400 pointsa
Sour
yesterday in order to save a rubber, Today's hand in the next and finst one of that porno zubber.
The East-West bidding war very scientifle. Easi's two-spado bid was a definite slem try and West with 10 point, was willing to show his club ace. When East continued by showing the ace of diamonds West jumped to four hearts on account of hir good trumpa and East contracted for the glam.
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Careful play was required to bring the hand home. Easi won the opening spade leest and drew
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1958.
An English farm labourer recently won £75,000 on the football pools by correctly forecasting eight matches to end in a draw. He said he would help to gather in the harvest before deciding what to do with the money.
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MANLIFTER COMING UP! Details about the size and fuel Alexander II. Bohr, 87-year-old ere secret.. But it is described inventor of Denville, Now a fairly small and expensive. Jersey, has invented a rocket which, when tied to a men's back, will partially overcome the pull of gravity.
This is no harcbreined scheme. It is sponsored by the rocket company which made the, motor for the Viking, forerunner of the Vanguard.
And the US. Defence Depart- ment says that it is definitely in- terested in the gadget.
The person wearing tho manlifier has not actually flown in tests, but tho, gadget gave him full and free so of his muscles. He had no ill-effects
fterwards.
A company spokesman said that, with the rocket, a person con "run faster, jump across rivern, sole walls and, cliffs, Jump extraordinary heights and not be tired when he gets there,”
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LEGAOT PROBLEM: An Italian-born American eliz, Consolato Mirti, who made a will cutting his wife eft with
Ionving dollor and
$24,000 Vatican a problem. to Pope Pius XII, has set the
Mirti, who apparently lived a life of abject poverty, surprised the city of Byracuse, in America, when at his death how police revealed exactly much money he had lalk
Borides the dollar for his wife, Mitri also bequeathed a dollar each to his brother and
sister.
A spokesman at the Valicor said: "This is something that will require very careful study and the Pope will call for a full report from the Church authort- ties where Mirti ilved"
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WEST
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East and West 60 on score.
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Trumps with two leads. Three
rounds of clubs allowed him to
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"If I win £75.000, I'm hanged if I don't treat him to a new'n"
The fear behind this "We want Bevan' call
get rid of his losing spade and heORIES, Socialists and
ruffed dumny's last spede in his ; own hand.
Liberals alike must
surely be agreed on' one thing when their annual This series of plays had elimi nated all black cards from his party conferences conclud- hand and dummy. Now all heed. For it now seems
be-
had to do was to enter dummy yond dispute that the most with a third trump, lead a dia- remarkable aspect of the mond and firease his ten spot,
political scene in Britain to- South won with the jack and day is not the tremendous was now helpless. A diamond recovery of the Government lead would be up to East's cce but the continuing failure queen and a spade or club lead of the Opposition to would allow East to ruff in dum-
queen of prove their prospects, my ond dlacard bis clarions,
im-
Even through the long months of the Govern- ment's unpopularity, the ▼+CARD Sense♣ Socialists made no advance.
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North
West Pass
Pass
Bart South
You, South, hold:
ANT. Pass
Now they are not even treading water: they are sinking.
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What do you do?
Aid three no-trump. You may be missing a slam but you are more likely to be missing a slam that won't make.
TODAY'S QUESTION You hold the same hand. Your partner's redid after your one heart has been three no-trump. What do you do in this casa?
Answer on Monday
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LEFT
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The decline is unmistakable to all but the most blinkered in the party. And, in terms of the General Election it is almost compleie, close to the paint at which any remedial action is able to prove too late. What has gone wrong? Is it simply Mr Gaskell's leaderly. or is there another explanaKon?
LIBERTÉ
CALITE
FRATERN
THE REBELS WITHOUT A CAUSE · SEE
HIM AS THEIR LAST
By GEORGE HUTCHINSON
Evening Standard Political Correspondent.
of the trade
Some
union
leaders
given
have their answer. Diagnosing faults at the top, they now sock to invest Mr Ancurin
Bevan chairman of the party at the forthcoming confer- enoc so that he should preside over their de- stinies during what they expect to be an election year.
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It is hardly fintter- ing to Mr Galtskell, Nor, of course, Mrs Barbara Castle, to whom the chair- manship should pass as she is now vice- chalinan. It might al- most
that suggest Mrs Castle is in some way unЛtted to occupy the chair when grest affairs are in handar as if she were a sort
of Laski figure, not
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leadership without cause... faith without a beliel."
sufficiently well known and possibly indiscreet, like the pro- fessor who was Attlee's party chairman in 1045.
If it's discretion that tells, the Socialists would hardly want Nye "Vermin." "Dessicated calculating machine." You could scarcely call the man discreet,
But would the replacement of Mrs Castle by Mr Bevan in itself cure the la of the party? Mr Bevan has the marvellous gift of oratory, Few can bogia to match him on the platform or in the House of Commons, But an orator has to havo pame- thing to say. A leader needs a Cause. And this in the root of the Socialist problem. There is (no longer a cause, The fro has
Fune out.
cry
preach Socialism successfully and
social injustice to people who are buying motor
belevision сата, refrigerators, sels, and washing machines on a scalo unknown before.
There are, it is true, pome pocitets of unemployment, but there is every indication that the return to an expanding economy will take up the slack.
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these circumstances the Socialists face the prospect not only of Whind successive General Election victory for the Torles but worse still the prospect of a greater political defeat than in 1955.
It is for this reason that their moto astute leaders are turning to Mr Bevan.
AT THE TOP
The ery Bevan, for Chairman amounts to a last throw by a group still sharp enough to recognise that if they are to be defeated it must be an "honqur- able" or dignitted defeat. In other words, the Tory majorliy must be kept down, within pro- portions that will not utterly dilshearten the enire party for years.
And the conviction grows that only with Mr Bevan visibly and formally at the top, alongside Mr Gaitskell, can this conceivably be realised, Bevan cannot guaranice success but perhapa the passionate, romantic force of his personality can save them from total disaster, even without some great rampaging cause. That is the reasoning.
Bevan kadership without a cause faith without a bellef.
And Mr Bevan, himselt?
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be rejected the plan for Britain to abandon the H-bomb alone.
In so doing, he outraged his triends of the Left and destroynd the enthusiasm of untold thou- sunds of constituency workers---| even though that enthusiUKZN WEB | misplaced and Mr Gevan's judge-
ment was right,
There is another reason too, why a great Party has grown weary.
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He is said to be extremely uneasy
about the outlook, champing at the bit under a .sigkening sense of frustration.
If it can be managed he wil no doubt accept the chairman sup.
And that office, in a year of defeat..mit yet carty him to the leadership.
***{London Express Service),
Glashan
john.
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