JACOBY
on BRIDGE
HERE is an actual hand from
one of the matches in this summer's knockout team cham- pionships which shows another gambling grand slam.
Charles Gabriel, sitting North, opened two clubs as a force. Many experts today use other two bids as weak hands, but reserve two clubs for all rockcrushers.
Dr John Fisher, sitting South, had just enough for a positive response. (The nega- live response is 'two diamonds.)
West did not know who was going to do what to whom, but he decided that a five diamond bid would stir things up.
It sure did. Gabriel went into a trance. Decided that he could not buy the hand below seven and that if he did bid seven the one sure thing would be that he would not have to look at a diamond lead. After
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EAST
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SOUTH
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BOYS AND GIRLS
MAGAZINE
A Walk In The Rain
-Merlia's Magic Keeps Everyone Dry-
By MAX TRELL
ELLO Kids," said
Merlin, the Most
vellous and Magnificent
cian, Karf and Hanid,
Mr Mar Magi- the
Shuddi Children with the Turned Abou!
Names. "huw
would you like to take a walk
with me?
Hajd said, "It isn't a
very
good Hay for walking, Mr Mer lin. i ratning.***
Looked out
"Raining?" repeated Mr Mer- lin. He went over to the win- dow and looked out. "To be he said the next sure!" moment "But we don't warg about a little rain, do we?"
"Of course We do!" said Knarf. "We'll get all wet."
"Now let's see what we can
Merlin do about it," said Mr
There He snapped his fingers. were three puffs of blue smoke. When the smoke cleared away, Khart and Hanid and Mr Mer- lin were all covered with white feathers.
"Duck feathers," explained Mr Merlin. "They're the driest things in the worid, Raindrops roll right off them.
Karf become a Bug, holding a mushroom-umbrella.
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ished, was rather handsome blue and gold Lizard standing: under a palm tree leaf.
Not too happy
too
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"As for me," said Mr Merlin as he smiled at the Bug and the Lizard. "I'm not really happy with this branch of spreading chestnut tree. On the other hand, if were a Robin, this would be the best umbrella in the world."
He snapped his nagers and,
Feathers disappeared
an instant later, a Robin with the branch of a chestnut wee Knarf said the feathers made
standing over his head was him feel itchy. Hanid said the
next to the Bug with the mush- feathers weren't very pretty. Mr Merlin snapped his fingers room and the Lizard with the again. And the feathers disap- palm tree leaf. peared.
"Let's see what else we do!" he said.
"Come along." chirped the
the can Rubin to
Bug and the Lizard. "Now let's take a walk Once more Mr Merlin snap in the rain." ped his angers.
Agalo the
room filled with blue
smoke.
Strange sight
When the smoke cleared away. And though you may not Knarf and Hanid and Mr Mer- belleve
it) The People who
Jin were holding umbrellas lived on Knar's and Hanid's
over their heads,
street and who happened to be
They Were very strange standing by their windows looking umbrellas!
this particular, rainy afternoon, Knarf's umbrella looked like saw a Bug walking by with a mushroom. Haaid's umbrella mushroom over his head and a looked like a palm leaf. Mr Lizard scampering by with
Merlin's umbrella looked like palm tree leaf over her head branch of a spreading and a Robin hopping by with a
the chestnut tree.
Do they like them?
branch of a chestnut tree spread over his head.
after and
And they wondered if they "Well," said Mr Merlin, "how saw what they thought they do you like your umbrellas?' saw.
Knari said his mushroom- "Yes, you were right, Mr umbrella was pretty funny Merlin," Hanld said later looking.
home they had returned "Not at all," said Mr Merlin. were back in their own shapes "Thousands of Bugs all over again, "none of us got a bit wet. world Use mushroom- You are the Most Marvellous umbrellas:
"But I'm not "Bug" said and Magnificent Magician."
"I know it," said Mr Merlin. Knarfé
We'll take care of that in a
-the
minuto," said Mr Merlin
Kaart started to shot that he didn't want to be a Bug. I was too late! Mr Merlin had bis. Angers. already shapped There was a puff of smoke at the spot where Kuarf stood, When the smoke cleared away, there was a Bug standing In the middle of the room under a mushroom
Ilm
What about you?" Mr MCT- asked Hanid. "Are you happy with your palm lent-umbrella?".
Not very much
tree
Hanld
started to say. Then the TC- membered about Kaur's being changed into a Bug and ho added, "But I'll get used. Lizards like
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He snapped his angers and the next second, in ⠀ place )ör Hanid, who mysteriously, ivan-
NEW YORK PARTY... Little black dresses, little perched-on hats, little luxury dog
It's so hard to be truly creative
when there's a furious rush
New York.
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all, West was a great expert who shall be nameless and past would never play Gabriel for any diamonds if he jumped to
seven.
So Gabriel blá seven and things worked out even better than he had hoped. To start with, West doubled. Gabriel did not redouble. He felt that a redouble would give away the fact that he was void cf
when you really set out for a clubs.
It is this fear of standing red. Every party dress has out in a crowd that, I believe, pinafore that's both protection tin of broad beans.
'M' ISN'T for Mother. 'M' is for Mink-that's was forced America's brightest and decoration. And every gar
the hard selling slogan currently sprawled talents into other than normal ment goes happily into
fashion fields and thus given washing machine. across the New York theatre programmes. And the country its fashion reputa- this to me sums up the importance of the fashion tion of flamboyance, dazzle, and
dotty good looks. business the largest industry in the country-to the American way of life.
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So he just passed and let The testing laboratory at West drop a high club on the Macy's elty-sized store. Every table. Dr. Fisher ruffed in 110 trouble thing the shop advertises is put dummy and had But the things I would most through the most rigorous fest setting up the spades upon
which to discard his two jumped on by like to transplant to England's beds are surly shopping land are those mammoth machine; rain pours ing diamonds.
a mackintosh; fabulous American stores, re- incessantly on great-outdoor cently bedizened for Christmas an artificial sun beats down on under-clothes with skies full of stars, with a hammock.
acres of holly, with winking mas fripperies by the Boorful,
For when it
comes
home clothes, clothes, and
to at-
most striking it's impossible to beat America silvery wassal balls and Christ-Tough, but pretty, carrier
For the things about the Trans- atlantic rag trade are the way in which it absorbs its members, its terrifying pro- fessionalism, and its fan- tastic devotion to the cause of hard cash.
The towering Seventh-avenue manufacturing jungle is no place for the inspired stars-in- the-eyes amateur.
Shrew
I is designed to turn a girl into a woman and a woman into a shrew quicker than you can say cost-price.
It is not much of a place har the imaginative professional either for it is limited by the most important factor governing American fashion today.
As Jackie Kennedy's dress maker, Oleg Cassini, told me: "The fantastic wish of the American woman to conform at all costs makes it difficult to be truly creative. woman has given herself
anywhere in the world.
Example
bags handed out for free, rest rooms that are large, light, and alry, the temptation of the seented, ground floor always always packed, with beautiful Scarves, with glittering jewel- lery, with every brand of make- the American sun, with all the bits and trimmings, needed to jazz up the eternal little black dress,
For winter evenings at-home saw jersey dresses with long
sleeves, Light
easy fitting bodices, and skirts belling down to an enchanting ankle length. Colours were vivid---skyblue
England's stores could copy up under teamed with Irish green, lilac to their credit:- with petunia.
Morale
Price for a winter evening of romantic warmth: around £10 For easy packing, there were ne slik-like dressing-gowns with matching pyjamas simply and soberly printed. For cutting a dash whilst serving the din- ner-skinny pants made Came-
lot-style of the old matching
with a heavier pullover top.
New York's protusion of under- jazzy, boldly printed wear killed for me the myth
The incredible range of siz ing which every departmental store carries. I counted up to 35 different-size combinations
Despite the uniformity of the New York fashion scène, it surprise me that in one best-selling dress. A fat doesn't cry from the English four sizes billion dollars a year on clothes. American worgen spend 14.3
if you're lucky.
Fifth-avenue alone could tempt
The windows dressed actual- the rent, rates, and gas bill to woo you inside longing for from a padlocked pocket. that pair or fur-lined mittens
--(London Express Service).
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kings.
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Guilty parents and
that the American is a cold and WHAT better way
clinical girl at heart.
to start a lad
Currently the biggest money down life's The American
formal uniform and she clings
Spinner at a big. Fifth-avenue constructiva z pe
store
are
waist petticoats
covered with butterflies, bios- companionship
do-good
fat- nursery
toys
rhymes which "help By
to it as rigidly as the old school. goming, with buds, printed in her and son with heads teach your child to talk.”
tie."
Fear
peppermint striped or abstract designs.
together project
on a mutual and
at To it morning moralb still further bras and girdles come home. Here is a boy you in matching colours stronger will never have to worry than poster paint. And for woman regardless of age or size glamorous nights, an enterpris about,"
ing manufacturer has into a little black sheath dress, invented bra for sleeping in.
It is this fear
being of "different" that squeezes every.
a little fur stole, a little pill
box hat, and a little row of pearls after six o'clock,
The football game, of course, is "deal for planning : tactical play."
The toy manufacturers have hit on the right generation of parents for this line in sales- falk. Confused by baby experts The promise of this model and psychiatrists, we guiltily grab at anything that will prove son, this happy, united In a recent
that we are Doing Right by our Survey, 78 per family group is made by children. cent of sub teen girls listed
It is this run-with-the-pack their main interest as fashion a parson, a Scomaster, or
every and a stroll through any chil- the head master of a pro- buy an old-fashioned box of montality that collars winter coat with some cart of dren's department will show you gressive school. fur, makes tapestry bags the why. overnight rage."
It is this need to follow some example. that explains the overwhelming effect on Ameri can fashion of Jackie Kennedy, Today every other dress some sort of adaption of her simple little shouths.
is
Holly
CONFUSED
What young mother would coloured bricks promising "fun" for her child, when she can buy a box that teaches finger con-
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