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CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
AND
How to Win
-By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
Shrewd False-Carding
CANNOT warm players too 'em- On winning the second trick with phatically against indiscrimingte the heart king declarer inade the
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THE KILL
What a R.A.F.
Pilot Really
false-carding. The intelligent play orthodox semi-sufety play of laying Feels
action
of cards is, in itself, a form of lan- down the diamond ace, hoping to guage. Obviously, it is one partner's get some Information from the full duty to "speak the truth" to the of cards that would point out the other. Most bridge lles (Inise cards) correct manner of drawing trumps. are more misleading to partner than West, of course, followed to the to opponents.
ree with the deuce. Ind East auto- matically played his lowest trump, But, while false-carding should declarer's natural
would would be confined to those rare situations have been to lead the nine toward In which it is not dangerous to "ie" the
Had queen.
be done
50, Of to partner, it to a fact that a judi- cour
courte, Lhe situation would have clous false-card can be very baffling been revented and the finesses to the enemy. Consider the declar again
against Enst's Jack estabilahed, er's dilemma in the following hand: Easter, however, made matters very tough for the declarer by following
North dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
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After West had opened the nee of hearts and continued with the second round, declarer's only prob- lem was to pick up the trumps with- out losing to the missing jack. Ob. viously, a 3-2 split would Insure success and, also obviously, the
of
to the first diamond lead, not with
As told to Captain
·FRANK SHAW
I SUPPOSE I'm an average pilot, so
the three, but with the eight spot! my feelings in action may
This false-card was declarer's un- doing. Of course, he realised that.
Fast night be "fooling." But he could not know and, therefore, could not be criticised for laying down the diamond king us prepara- tion for a finesse against West.
The point was that. East had nothing to lose by his false-card and a great deal to goln.
To-morrow's Hand
South dealer.
East-West vulnerable.
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K865
0975 4K 103
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should. South play his three
could be picked up if declaror could notrump contract against good de- guess which defender was long. fence? Opening lead, heart queen.
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Count the TELEGRAPHS"
everywhere
stand for the feelings of all my battling comrades.
In the first place, not much fear
enters into a man's thoughts when he's hurling himself at four hundred miles an hour into what the scribes call The Jaws of Hell.
Your feelings are chained tight. You are one with your killer-machine.
Every extraneous thought is clean wiped from brain.
your-
Your goal is a hundred miles twenty minutes, or, with a following wind, even less than that; and for twenty minutes a breath or a life- time in an airman's existence
you have opportunity to test your armour; to try a few quick tricks, perhaps, to make sure the ship is as always as ready to your hand, eye and heart, as a blood horse about to start for the Derby.
Your ground-crew
have
seen to details: your guns are serviced and ready; a louch on the button and the answering spatter
you of assures
that. Everything is smooth as silk under- your hands.
You are subconsciously aware of a sense of unlimited power. You feel on a leve) with the gods--even superior to them, for
you modern and efficient; not overlaid with the dust and grime of futlle ages.
are
You are a godl But you don't
put that into words; the awareness simply flows through you with an odd, electric tingling that again communicates itself. to your increased machine, giving it an raar of power, a thickened vibra- tion, an eagerness that is like the siraining of hounds on a lensh,
But you don't think-until after- wards the swift impressions regis- tered on your brain are developed, like a sensitised plate.
By Walt Disney
WALT DISNEY
"You
pour in a stream of death,
It's him or you.
no pity, no hint of mercy. But that is on the ground; thése raging emotions are not your companions in the parted air.
All you are conselous of is a strained desire to see what the sky would spout upon you. No high- tulutin' heroisms! It is a “job," to be done na efficiently and thorough- Ty as may be.
It is your work, for which you draw pay, for which painstaking >pecialists trainéd you through what seemed then to be tedious
months.
You fretted then at compara-
tive inaction; now
you bless the thoughtful care that in- sisted on hard efficiency before. entrusting you with a fighting Job.
And through the blur of uncon-
scious thought, you sec suddenly that here is what you came out to And-death or victory.
even
Hatred has fled; possibly-I've
is felt it-there
a limp sympathy, with what you Intend shall be your vic@ms-your bag, for the fact that you are wishful to slaughter fellow humans' doesn't register in human terms. For all emotion to the contrary, these flickering glints around you might he partridges.
The light itself is a scries of flashes: none definitely registered at the moment, all taking orderly shape as your trained brain clears to accept individual facts,
A man is on your tail-and you spin around to give him the works, You manoeuvre without conscious volition, until you see him within' range, your nose bearing fairly; you touch the button and give him the burst.
You follow the steam of death, pouring in another." It is your enemy or you.
A ntting impression-"Sho'll be sorry I then you choke with a red heat as you see you've killed him:
a fighter.
He's down; diving like all hell, flaring, smoking—there's a hint of
AIR-LIFE to-day: is all unti- a deathly stink that is as fleeting us
elpation and almost grudg-N Ing retrospect. There is no pre- sent; because the present flows past you at three hundred milles an hour, to become a blurred past before you appreciate its existence!
If you have listened to broadcast describing onemy sayagery and atrocity, you pro- bably start, your patrol with a fury of hatred blazing....... Ionido you; an incoherent determination to square the deal with the. murderous Iun. ;
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a thought.
No time for thought-below. is a 'clutch of bombers, intent on':death. You dive eight thousand feet in a
breathless; plummet-sweep. You don't know you're doing it, except for the drumming of air-pressures In your cars. You use oxygen as a' something within you, superior to your will, dictates.
You range for attack, and still you're not murderous, only craftsman.
You cut a bomber clean-in. two, watch him down; you get. on to another, destroy him.
You've heard of mutilated nurses
The clutch breaks formation, shattered under the symbol of the with every indication of panie. once-ancred: Rod Cross; of old.
VOU chase-you settle on a
You cha women butchered as they fled for
big fellow's tall; bút it is ttie, difches of their wrecked vil-the kistinct of that careful training loges--You've seen, with bleary, almost unregistering eyes, the movements, not your sentient self. savered, linbayes, and heads-of Your brains hra leed, but they work children, litered ghastity among their tom toys.
that directs your synchronised.
› more slowly thân your actions,
You cannot distinguish details
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supplies just now might seriously affect the situation below.
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You see fighter slecking along on some devilinent and you give the gun, calling to your bus for every inch of extra speed.
If you see yourself overhauling the quarry you are vaguely glad; if you drop speed you are vaguely disappointed; but not angrily It's Just the luck.
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Out of all my fights-and there have been plenty-I cannot re member either fear or elution. Not at the moment, that is,
I have felt my mouth dry like a Umekiln when the hazard's over: I have felt my heart thrusting like a hammer In my throat; but that was when in security,
One impression does stand out curiously and clearly, though. It was the other day, when I siwaTM German bomber deliberately wreck a hospital ship.
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plainly evident to me, who was higher than the Heinkel. He could not help having seen it; but his downward dive had all the determined pur- pase of a man attacking a definite- ly hosille target.
He killed that sacred ship. He machine-gunned . nurses and wounded men-some of them Ger- mans as they made for the boots.
He swooped and machinegunned people-women, too, In the oily water, He was worse than any mad dog-his dastardly assassina- tlons were, wholesale.
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I felt inte- like a fire. I felt rà him if it meant flying fairly Into him and bringing him down in a blind grapple.
I sat on him,,cut him in two. We dived in a spiral; and as he dived I gave him another burst to make sure.
Then the Heinkel hit the sea and disapeared, in a scum of oil and debris- horrible broth of death and torment.
RUDDER boat popped up and clinging to it were two men: the men who had made that hiplocaust..
A second before I'd been swear- ing blue murder-that if I got a shot I'd hit them in the stomach so they'd dle slowly and agonisedly. The Kaleidoscope fluttered,
"Poor devils! They're doing ás they're told." But as I spared them I saw retribution overtake the Jerries.
Erect in their rubber boat, they floated amongst swimmers, hands up--Kamerading hard. And two swimming, sailors—I aaw this in a lightning flash of conscious thought
grabbed the boat, capsized · it. held the airmen down until their writhings ceased.
But even then I was aware nei- ther of pity nor satisfaction. This air-game-ls Bigger than its player.
A perfectly processed machine would "feal that "why if › it could.'' think. It has 'a' function,tu per- form: clean, precise, inevitable. [That In]
The emotion: underrunning all a fighting airman's, thoughts: the blue, returns, you kill you. There is no such thing as death wriggle clear by ido-slipping ortiq only conscious feeling you cloud-seeking, of a furious allack by enemy fighters; and you steady cisely yourself to conserve, our pramuni that way mangit him, allowing 10 Lions because 10 race. backs or treat
You swear that, by God's avenging grace, you will treat any
enemy you
have on that subject:te that you might not be fahamed to face good comrades in life nickt unknown dirachsion. T
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