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CONTRACT How to Play
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How to Win
–By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
Avoid Two Notrump Contracts
HENEVER a team has a part-, and laid down a club for the selling
score, large enough for a sult trick.
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contract of three-odd to produce o A moment's study of the North- game, the partners are wise to agree South hands reveals that
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on a sult contract rather than to pin heart contract could not have been their faith in two notrump. Natur-missed,, no matter how badly de- Of course, it was 'olly, this is not a blanket statement clarer guessed.
affecting all cases. What I do want equally true in this case that two to emphasize in that two notrump is notrump should have been brought rarely an eat contruct. Consider home due to the blocked condition
such a care as the following:
North dealer.
Both aldes vulnerable.
North-South 30-part-score.
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of the club sult and to West's fallure to shift to a diamond, Dec
Declarer had
in been guilty of atrocious reasoning failing to play the sunde nce after runnlag the hearts. One thing was certain-West would have cashed the Ist club if he had held it, hence that card was fairly well marked with East. The next point was that West,. after running the clubs, would not have shifted to the spade eight if he bad held the queen; from his point of view, such a lend would appear sulcital. As the carda
a dia- Juy West would have defeated the contract immediately, producing five clubs and one diamond for the defenders. Surely, if West had held the spade queen, he would have preferred to shift to diamonds the chance of putting his partner suit. Ifis only excuse ihat Both North and South were at fault for the spade lead could have been that he held nothing in the sult, hence for landing in a two strum con hoped to find his partner with the tract. South's error lay in persisting
stopper. Thus, with notrump over Nerth's two in or at fenst hearts; a three heart bit by South declarer should have been virtually would have been more logical. North, certain that East held the spade
well as the queen, and after "N Was wrong when he did not with his own major suits; a
a rebid to spade discard, elther the jack was blank or West had no more spades. three hearts was obviously in order. Hence it could cost nothing to lay
West opened the club ten. Enst won and returned bis original fourth best club. West cashed all his clubs, neatly picking up South's queen, but due to the blocked condition of the lub suit, East was left high and dry with the thirteenth. West shifted to the spade eight. Dummy covered with
the nine, East with the jock, and declarer won. Five heart tricks were now run off, due to the fortunate position of the king. On the three heart. icads to which he could not follow, East had serious discarding dimeulties. In desperation, he blank-
persist
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the spade queen in order to keep his good club and the diamond acc. Declarer, not dreaming that East would have the nerve to unguard the spade suit, now led a diamond toward his king. He was thoroughly dis- -Kasted-when-East-won-with-the-aco
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down the spade nee. If the jack fell, well and good; if it did not, declarer could still lead a diamond in his quest for the fulfilling trick.
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THE BLITZ COMES
TO FLEET STREET
One of England's best-known columnists tells what it is like to be a reporter in London when it is raining bombs. This is the first of two articles; the second will appear to-
morrow.
By Ritchie Calder
When an American publisher asked me to send him my war diary as a journalist, I offered him my favourite suit; it is the only diary I have kept.
That streak of paint on the sleeve is the entry for September 3, 1939, when, after waiting inside Num- ber Ten, Downing Street, for the declaration of war, I dived into an over- new air raid shelter half an hour later at the sound of the first sirens.
That mend that never was quite invisible is a reminder of the return of the ragged legions from Dunkirk. And it is camouflaged with stains of mud and grease, each of which is a souvenir of some undignified flop in the gutter during the Battle of Britain.
For I am what is called "the new kind of War Corres- pondent." The traditional kind still has to have his uni- form peaked cap, officer's tunic, natty breeches and burnished riding boots-be- fore he can go off with a Bri- tish Expeditionary Force to some romantic battle-front. The "new kind" if he is wise, also has his uniform-his oldest suit in which, when he hears the whistle of a bomb, he can fling himself into the mud in some unromantle back- street.
down and the white mug- nesium fires leap up at their bidding, to turn red and orange as some building caught alight. Then there was the thud of the heavy oil bombs, followed like a visible echo by the upsurge of flames. The explosion of high explosives made the fire- haze vibrate.
London stood out as clear as daylight against its own flames and, as each plane flew in, harried by the barrage, then tipped and turned, a sense of helpless despair gripped one, until the spotter casually remarked: "It's go- ing to be a warm night." just as he was accustomed to say. when his lofty porch was rocking with high explosives, "Bit noisy to-night."
July 17, 1941. By Walt Disney
Wennwhile I had to go down into the City. Only that privale solf with whom' I conferred so urgently and so fervently, knows the reluct- ance, misgivings and honest- to-goodness wind-up I had to overcome before I ventured out, to break through the cordon of flaming buildings.
But what courage I lucked I quickly borrowed from the wardens and civilians whom I found scrambling into blaz- ing offices to drag out valu. ables or douch incendiarlos.
Smoke blackened faces would suddenly become re- .cognisable_ns fellow-news- papermen who had come out to lend a hand. And the auxiliary firemen, civilians · turned firefighters, were singing as they manned the pumps or carcered with hoses up alleyways which were like furnace mouths,
During that night, I divided my time between the roof and telephoning a running commentary on the fires from my fat high above Fleet Street.
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A street as ditch separated it from the neres of raging flumes. The room was as bright as day" light. I remember thinking
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Just then, as though a con. ductor had flicked his baton, the guns were curtly silenced, the overture finished. And the night was, for the mo- ment, shared between the roar of the bombers and the clangor of the fire-bells. Then. suddenly, like the tearing of calico, a new sound ripped the sklos-our night fighters were on the job.
The incoming wave of Nazi
These mottle marks on the jacket-are-a-shorthand-more-planes met, the impact. The
cryptic than that of Samuel Pepys. They record the sequel to his diary of the Great Fire of London. They are the scorches left by the Second Great Fire of London. A fiers confetti spattered it during my vigil on the roof, nine storeys high, in the heart of the flaming city.
If the moths do not com- plete the job of the blitz, I may be able to tell my grand- children: "See that scorch on the coat collar? That was the Middle Temple library. And that scar on the sleeve? That was Wren's church of St Bride's. And the con- stellation of singe marks? That was when the court where Dr Johnson once lived went up in a Bessemer-blast of sparks. Maybe it was his dictionary exploding into 'derivations... And that
What a night it was for journalists and for the news- papers themselves. For the "new kind of War Correspon- dent" does not go off to war; he waits for war to come to him:
And it comes most nights. The "new kind" includes everyone from the editor downwards, because it is not even necessary to go outside the offico-most of Britain's great national newspapers have had bombs of some kind all to themselves.
On the night of the Fire- blitz, I went on the roof of the "Daily Herald" with the spotters. Goering's arson- aquadrons flew in with the black-out, at an hour when, in pence-time, London's Sun. day bells would have been ringing for Evensong, In- atend there was the brmmm- brmmm of the enemy 'planes plying na regularly
street-car service into the heart of London and the raucous answer of the anti- aircraft guns,"
From that roof we watched the fire-bombs como hurtling
fighters darted in and out of the smoke-roofs in a battle which raged over the heart of London. The bombers dropped their bombs sporadi cally, like startled waitresses dropping trays of crockery. Then they turned tail and headed home.
"But the next wave will bring the high explosives." said the spotter grimly, look- ing down on the City of Lon- don ringed with fires like a flaming target into which, as at Coventry. Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and elsewhere, ench successive wave would tip its load of destruction,
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of that grimi moment in the Spanish War when our war- correspondent finished tole- phoning his dispatch from Madrid and then remarked casually to his colleague in London: "Well; goodbye, Cocky I mayn't be telephon- ing again. The bullding in on fire."
And yet I forgot on the 'phone to mention that my own block of flats had caught fire. "Slack reporting" said the Night Editor severely, when I confessed next day.
Several newspaper offices were put temporarily out of action that night. The "Daily Telegraph" was well alight and throughout the night and into the morning I watched them fighting for the survival of a newspaper. It was still smoking when I heard out- side my door the familiar flop.
And there were all the newspapers as usual-includ- ing the "Daily Telegraph." I had to look out of the win- dow ngain-yes, it was still smoking, Even a reporter has to marvel at the feats of his Press colleagues.
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