Saturday,
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CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
AND:
How to Win
JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Defensive Cooperation
THE most difficult part of defence ders that considerable risic is entailed Is the proper selection of discarda. in this sort of paychic bidding. South It is here that partnership cooperation felt that his hatid as, a whole was strong enough to lake care of any becomes a fino art.
Generally speaking, the defenders number of heart rates that North must "agree" carly in the play, night make, by overbidding him in through the medium of signal cards, notrump. that West (for example) will guard spades while East guards hearts (or
WEEK-END WIT
Showing Interest Husband (Irritably): Th the second time you've us what trumps are, dear.
Wife (sweetly): "Well, you wunt me to show a little interest In the gamo, don't you, dear?”
Pure and Safo
"ARE you quite sure that your milk is pure?" the suspl. cious housewife asked.
"Yes mum," the milkman re- "It's been paralysed by the Public Anarchist,”
Weat, with .8 hearts to the queen-plied, whatever the donger sults may be). Jack, could not be "talked out" of a The Intal error and a far too com- heart lend; he opened the queen, men error-is for both defenders to driving out dummy's.nce. For rounds concentrate on
one sult. Note te- of diamond were then cashed, West dingording two hearts. On the fourth day's deal.
round, East made a fatal discard.
Match-point duplicate. Both siden vulnerable.
North dealer
KJG
♡ 10 6 6 3
AAB43
VA
Ó A Q 107 9732
4072
VOJUS
N
42
W
E
O J32
080
S
**Q8
AQ 100
VRT
OKDBA
The bidding:
North
10+
Fast Разл
South
West
1 (1) Paga
14
Pass
PALL
Pass Pass
AAK106
East
Got Started Muglatrate: "And after ho hit you on the head with the bottle
what happened ?"
Overimpressed by declater's heart bid, and panicky that West was "Ict ting to all his hearts," resolved to guard the heart suit himself. He didn't want to blank his K-J of spades, hence discarded club.proper.”
0
Thereupon declarer promptly ran off four club tricks.
East, called upon for two more dis- cards, changed his mind about the heart situation and let go two hearts -not that it mattered at this point, Declarer led to the spade ace and a spade, and East's king bc- returned
for his side. cime the only triek
- Every other declarer hnd been held to five-odd, hence East-West'a match- point score on this board was not robust.
It was East's discard of a club, of course, that was entirely responsible for this result. His partner's selec- the South's one heart response, obvi- tion of a heart lead, directly in eusly enough, was "fancy" his idea fnce of South's bid, had been the best being to build up the hand" for possible guarantee that West could suit. East notrump and to discourage a heart take care of the heart
on to his black lead. These tactics are often cm- should have held ployed by experts at matchpoint cards until they were forcibly ex- duplicate, but I must warn my rea- tracted from him.
BOOK OF THE WEEK
"THE NINE DAYS' WON- doubted how many of those DER." By John Masefield. rescued Frenchmen, who anw the little ships in action and (Heinemann. 3s. 6d. net).
elbowed their British allies in
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Complainant: "E then got. real peevish an' went for me
Smoke of Battle
The R.A.F. officer was greet- ing one of his pilots who had just come out of battle.
"Have you got any scars' on you?" he asked.
The pilot looked at his leader. "No, Sir, but I can give you a cigarette."
.
Why Tell Him? Landlady: "By the way, object to children."
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Prospective Lodger: "Well, that's no concern of mine, you should tell your husband."
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Her Youth to Blame
"But, daddy, why do you ject to my getting engaged? it my youth ?"
"Yes, he's hopeless!"
Ordinary
And now even when
-Answers "I'm not blacking-out any
more.
negotiated
I've separate peace.”
What Kay Did
a
"Did Kay close her eyes when you kissed her?"
"No, mine."
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Inspiration
The Inspiration soldier de- clared his girl was inspiring be- cause every time he was with her he got fresh ideas.
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Remarkable Man
Instinct
Fat: "Wot was the last card
of dealt ye, Miko?”
Miko: "A spade."
Pat: "Oi know ut! Ol saw yo spit on yer hands before yo picked it up."
War Alma
Mra Smith: "First she was gadding about with an auxiliary. firoman, then there was that follow in the Navy. Now she's groing round with an airman I simply can't make out what her war aims are!
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Just The Man
The officer had heard that a "Don't you believe in the Ten certain soldier was an agnostif the Commandments?" asked
officer.
"Not one, sir," replied the soldier.
"Not even the rule about keep- ink the Sabbath ?".
"No, sir."
"Ah, well," "remarked tho officer, "you're the very man I've been looking for to scrub out the canteen."
Quito Safe
"Do you drink?". "No."
"Then hold this pint while 1 fix my tie."
Honest With It Officer: "How long did it take TEACHER "If Shakespeare you to learn to drive a motor were alive to-day, wouldn't he be car?"
looked upon as a remarkable Private: "Oh, three or four.” man?"
Officer: "Weeks?" Private: "No,
ob-
Is would.
Clever Boy-"Of course he
He'd be three hundred cars!"
years old."
Father and Son
man
Coincidence
sir-motor
"John, I've been lying awake for hours waiting for you to Having heard of an old man come home from that wretched who had attained the age of a
club."
the long torment of the beaches bites dog it's not news in Ger- hundred and had never touched "Well, if that isn't just like a
many.
Saving Grace
Here is a great English story("They
were extraordinarily told by the greatest English thoughtful; often we could not story-teller. For John Mase- get them to share our rations, "Your school report is shock field writes the noblest prose of as they thought that we were ing, Bobby. Arithmetic bad, his any man alive; and when was short of food"), could now be tory poor, French bad, and con- there a nobler subject than got to echo the vindictive tittle-duct bad."
tattle of the invalids of Vichy, "Yes, dad, but did you Its opening was grim enough, or the long-distance spitefulness health excellent?" with a doomed army in a semi- of M. Andre Maurois. circle of converging Germans It is a simple narrative of
Dunkirk?
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Tact
drop of liquor, a certain tem. woman. And I've been at the perance committee was rushed club for hours waiting for you to to his home to get a sworn go to sleep." statement to that effect. Prop
ping him up in bed they guided
see
Arm Injured the feeble, trembling old hand- M.O.: "That's a terrible arm along the dotted line. They were you've got, my man. How did disturbed and startled, however, you injure it?" by a violent disturbance in the Private Higgins: "Salutin❜ next room-scuffling, falling of an officer while goin' through a heavy furniture and breaking revolvin' door, sir.” `...
drawing slowly nearer to a brave men and brave ships, "Are you intending to make single blazing port, whilst Eng- vividly presented in the words a purchase, madam?" asked the of crockery. land held its breath and waited and through the eyes of eye-exasperated assistant. for the worst. Who could have witnesses who saw "what seem- foretold a happy ending to that ed to be vast black shadows on story?
the pale sands . . . he could not Yet Operation Dynamo, to think what they were. As it use its quaint Admiralty nick- grew lighter he saw that the name, was set in swift motion blacknesses were onormous for- and brought off 186,587 British mations of men standing, wait- soldiers and 123,095 Frenchmen, ing, .. They did not seem to to any nothing of 6,981 wound- change; they did not seem to ed in the hospital-ships assidu- sit, nor to lie down; they stood, ously bombed by German ardour. with the patience of their race,
For those were days when waiting their turn." German generosity was rela- It is good to be reminded of tively inconspicuous even to these things, and it will be still French admirals; and it may be better to avenge them,
"Good heavens, what's that?" "Certainly," replied the cus- gasped a committee man. tomer, acidly.
"Oh," whispered the old man, "Well, I'm glad to know that, as he sat back exhausted after madam: "I thought you were his effort, "that's pa. He's drunk stocktaking!"
again."
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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
BIRTHDAY PICTURES
Easy to take Just a short Ume exposure with the camera on a firm support this shot la part of a charming birthday sarlos. Keep your camera buey on birthdays; they're fine for picturas.
of a family has a birthday and bero a uno'occasion when you can really turn your camera loose' for a fratralo story toiling cortos of pictures.
SOONER or later, every member got one picture as he receives thể package: another as he begins to unwrap it; a shot of his expression when he sees the gift; another as ha loads up for the dest timo; and anal shot as he contentedly pulls away. This is clearly much better and for more interesting--than just ono shot, or several all alike.
it's quite as simple to take a
·sorios as a fow "single" shots. Just set up your two photo lights-and as long as your subject alaya in tha same apot, the exposuro won't change So, all you need - do is watch for changes in pose and ex- brosion. The photo bulbs and high spood Alm maka endpabola oRAY. A shot of the cake, lighted only by The candies, will call for a short tima exposaro-say two to three
·Reconds-with the camera placed on a Arm, solid support. vist
Of course, the contre of a child's birthday is the cake with candles, That's why we picked it for our picture here. But there's a lot moro 10. a birthday anybody's birthday, The preparations-the presentation of gift the party, if there is one all these make good snapshot material. If it's a child's occasion, with your small son or daughter playing the leading role. you can start taking pictures several days in advance pictures emphasizing the good behaviour" that always precedes the big day.
The idea, in making a eories of this mort, is to tell a completo story, The more dotalis, you can show, the better your story-and ll'a, morë- satisfying when you look "back, through your album.
Here's what megn by "dolaila," Bupposa l'a: Dad's bitllday, and you're sivids him a new tips, Thon
Maybe there isn't a birthday at your house this work, or this month. Hat tuak: this inway--and when this day homesls ronember your camera, and got a good birth- day story. It's perfect material for your family history" album.
Jolin" van Gulidar
Ask The Husband
"What does your husband call you?”
"Dimplca."
"I can't see any dimples." "Well-"
TELEGRAPH
QUIZ
What is Stalin's real name,
and when and where was he born?
2
The gas in soda water is (a) sulphur dioxide. (b) carbon dioxide (c) carbon monoxide.
3
(a)
When a doctor examines your heart or lungs he uses a stereoscope (b) stethoscope (c) photometer (d) optophane.
4
The first capital of England was (a) London (b) Winchester (c) York (d) Canterbury (c) Oxford.
5
Is a dolphin a fish, mammal or animal ?
Who wrote the novel, "Kitty Foyle, on which the film star- ring Ginger Rogers was based?
You see on an invoice the let- What does ters "E and. O.E.". this mean ?
8
Which is correct-Eskimos or Esquimaux ?
9
Shad is a (a) fish (b) lake in} Canada (c) Persian rug (d) leather water butt.
10.
A camelopard is a. (a) leopard (b) camel (c) camellia (d) chameleon (e) giraffe.
Answers on Page 12.
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