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If you wear sharkskin to the sea, then you are in the swim, It's the latest thing in bathing sults. ABOVE-Starlet Mary Howard dons, red-joliuge-on-white suit of sharkskin, while Ann Morriss uses the same colour scheme, only polka dots, CENTRE For beach relaxation, Lana Turner chooses white paberdine slacks, with sweater coat in brilliant red, white and blue. RIGHT-Small blue and white checked taffeta is used by Ann Rutherford for her yachting suit, with eyelet lace rule irim on the bodice and step-in-shorts..
CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
"DEAR
AND
How to Win
·By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
New Method Is Equally Safe
EAR Mrs. Culbertson: Our little; "Will you please analyze this silua- group has taken up the new tion for us and compare the two methods of the Culbertson System methods of bidding?-RDL, New and, generally speaking, has found
them very satisfactory. However,
York."
we do not always get good results 1t is quite true that
with the new procedure in the mat-
under
the first
old rule, which demanded
ter of two-bids. This hand gave us response of two notrump on a hand
a lot of trouble in our last session.
North-South vulnerable.
North dealer,
AAD
AK 1085-
K 4 V72 0J72
AK 84
OAK Q81
VQJDO
#2
N WE
◊ 1003
$
4QJ 10.7
10876532
43
406
Our bidding (I sat North) pro- ceeded:
North East South
West
2♡
Pask 24
Pass
Pasa
EN TO Pass
34 GO
PASE
Гава
5
Pasa Рава ·Pass
such as South's, the final contract would properly be only four spades, easily nakable. It is equally true, however, that under the new sys- tem (which calls for a sult response if the suit la as good as K x x x x, QJ x x x, or six cards or longer) North-South should also stop four spades, with this bidding:
North East South Weat 20 16
Рака
Гила
PASS 3
Реля 4. Pass Pass Pess
nt
The difference Iles in the absence of a four netrump call by North. The latter should feel that a two heart opening, followed by a three diamond bid and then by a spade raise, adequately and fully describes bla
top-card strength and distribu- tion, and guarantees a maximum of one club. If South cannot bid again over four spades, no slam is in pro- Joss on spect; hence there is no need for the
**Culbertson 4-5 Notrump convention,
"We managed to stop short of
slam, but still had to take
the deal. West opened the club king, high investigating measure of four
and continued with the ace, ruffing] notrump. dummy. My partner cashed the
how
spade ace but then had to guess to get back to his own hand. Unfortunately, he guessed wrong, cashing two hearts, then ruffing third heart. West over-ruffed and East's spade South had ruffed a was still good. Of course,
two high
contract, but this and fulfilled tips on one trick
it
n he could then have drapped
vas just a gucas,
"Some of us thought that under the old system, in which South would first have to answer with two notruinp, the final contract would be safer. This bidding would be:
North
8.0
Past Parr
INT FAMI
Pau Pass
To-morrow's Hand
Rubber bridge. Both sides. vulnerable. South dealer.
J7
4Q109043
A82 0.83 403
N
O AJ 109 WE
64 4073
S
4A8
KQ4
AJ-10.
153 10088 72
How should Enst-West defend against South's three: notrump con- tract?.
JONKS JUNCTION
SHARKSKIN
SUMMER
July 30, 1941. By Walt Disney
WALT
FOR
SIRENS
WHAT Was This Woman's SECRET?
WE know that Helen of Troy
was beautiful enough to have one of the most famous battles in history fought in her honour, and we could certainly do with some- one to-day whose face alone could launch us a thousand ships. But what no one can quite make up his mind about is whether or not the lovely Helen was also a drug addict.
Here and there a frag- ment in her story 'seems to point to the fact that Helen definitely was.
For instance, in the Odys sey, Hamer tells us that when Telemachus visited Menelaus (Helen's lawful husband) in Sparta, the remembrance of Ulysses and other warriors acted very depressingly on the assembly, so Menelaus or- dered a banquet to be served and Helen herself prepared. the 'guests a peculiar drink.
"And Helen, daughter of Zeus, poured into the wine a. drug. Nepenthe, which gave forgetfulness of ovil.
Those who had drunk of this did not shed a tear the whole day long, even if their mother or father werd dead,' even if a brother or a beloved
HELEN OF TROY is the woman.
In this articlo, MARCUS HOLLYSTONE will help you to know her a little botter
son had been killed before their eyes by the enemy,
"And Helen, daughter of Zeus, possessed this wonder-
ful substance which Polydam- na had given her, the wife of Thonis in Egypt-that fertile country which produced, so many balms, some beneficial and some deadly."
MODERN science says there is only one substance in the world capable of acting in this way, and that is opium -the vehicle of morphin.
Its characteristic effect af- ter habitual use is a state of complete indifference towards everything except oneself.
This description from Homer has enabled doctors ⚫ and historians to make an- other guess: namely, that Greck warriors consumed Nepenthe before battle, in order to dull their sense of danger.
Only the "initiated"-the
.of Heroes-mado unc
it; Surely, then, Helen had pre- pared this oplate at other times and other occasions for her confidants, from her store of Egyptian drugs.
AND while we are on the subject of drugs, don't make the mistake of thinking the Stone Age was as simple as it sounds.
Relics from the Stone Age --the epoch of the lake dwel- lers some 4,000 years ago- found in the Swiss Lakes, In- clude not only poppy secls but also capsules of the pop- ples.
On examination, these have proved not to be primitive wild poppies but the culti vated opium poppy itself.
So they know a thing or two about Nepenthe even be- fore the lovely Helen did
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COLONY'S TRADE FOR HALF YEAR
According to an official report released for publication by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, the combined values of the Colony's imports and exports of merchandise during the first half year of 1941 totalled $689.8 millions (£42.6 millions) as compared with $746.1 millions (£46.1 millions) in the first half year of 1940, and $571.0 million (£35.1 millions) in the first half year of 1939,
In terms of local currency the total visible trade of the Colony decreased by 7.5 per cent. In the first half year of 1941 as compared with the first half year of 1940, and increased by 20.8 per cent, as compared with the first half year of 1939.
In terms of sterling the total visible trade of the Colony decreased by 7.6 per cent. In the first half year of 1941 as compared with the first half year of 1940, and increased by 21.4 per cent, as compared with the first half year of 1939.
Imports of merchandise umounted) In terms of sterling values imports to $307.3 millions (£23.9 millions) of merchandise decreased by 7.7 per In the first half year of 1941 as com cent. in the first half year of 1941 as pared with $419.6 millions (£25.9 compared with the drst half year of
the first half year
1940. of millions) in
and increased by 20.2 per cent. 1040, and $301.0 millions (£18.6 as compared with the first half year mlilions) in the Brst half
of half year
1939; exports decreased by 7.4 per 1939; whilst exports amounted to cent, in the first half year of 1841 as $302.5
millions (£18.7 millions), compared with the first half year $320.5 millions (20.2 millions) and 1940, and increased by 12.7 per cent. $270,0 millions (£16.0 millions) res as compared with the first half year
of 1939. pectively,
In terms of longkeng currency Imporis of merchandise decreased by 7.7 per cent. in the first half year of
1041 09 compared with the first half fyear of 1940, and increased by 28.7 per cent. as compared with the first half year of 1939; whilst exports decreased by 7.4 per cent. in the first half year of 1941 as compared with the first half year of 1940, and in- creased by 12.0 per ent. as compared with the first half year of 1939.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary, Issued yesterday is:
Buyers
1.K. Govt 4% Loan 07.50
H.K. Govt, 31 Loan (1934) 94.25 1.K. Govt. 31% Loan (1040) 94.25 Flank of East Asin $75
Canton Ins. $225
Chinese Estates $101
Macao Electrics $18
H.K. Fire Ins, $185
Sellera...
Electrics "O" X. Ris $22.25
Electrics Rts $11.10
Docks $15.70
Sales
Providents $5.60/65 Trams $16.00 Lights "O" $5.90/80 Lights "N" $1.30 Electries "N" $21 Electrics Rts. $11 Macao Electrics $18.30
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