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-B2 JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
Valuable Convention --
THERE is one conventional bid that, trump as an aid, South would have is not generally known and yet to be satisfied with either doubling which is extremely valuable, es the opponents and defeating them pecially against opponents who in one measly trick, or making a pure
dulge in shut-out bidding. I refer
is
to the four notrump overall, which Just another form of takeout dou- ble. In the following deal South used this convention correctly, and it was only North's stubborn refusal to cooperate that spolied the result.
Match-point duplicate. West dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
A 463
VK 10 9 4
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AKQJ10
4
0752
N
8632
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O QJ 100
WE ន
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The bidding:
West North
Piss
South Eart Pass Pana INT PAU Pass
▾
North, an experienced
player; knew very well what South's four notrump bid domanded but, with a spade stopper of his own, and a king and queen on the side, he arbitrarily decided that notrump would be as good as any other contract. He wai soon to regret this autocratic deci- sion. Not that the contract was not made it was. But North-South still came out with a bottom score, be- cause every other team in the room played the hand in hearts and made six-odd..
notrump
South's bid had been conventional and forcing. The four overall is a valuable bidding device Invented for just such hands as South held. Very often, when a player has great strength in three suits, the bid- ding will be opened pre-emptively against him, and It then is his task to find his own best contract within the limited-bidding space left him, Without the conventional four no-
"tab" at a sull bit of his own,
he happened to hit hearts, all well and good, but he might just as well guess to bid five clubs or five dia- monds, and North would then be unable to correct the contract.
The four notrump overcall solves this dilemma. It says partner:
"I
have tremendous strength outside the opponents' suit, and merely want to know which suit you can support. Picase
advise."
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here fact that the responder
holds a stopper in the opponents'
char
suit is not sumclent reason for fail- ing to follow orders. In this case North should have jumped at the
Bold
dve hearts-Indeed, chance to six hearts would not have been
been any great stretch on North's honour hold- ing. Even a five heart contract, however, would have been superior
to the four notrump, and only a small amount of care would have been re-
quired to fulfill a alam contract.
The
spade ace would win the first trick and declarer should immedi- ately ruff a spade, cash the heart nce, then overtake the heart queen.- He should ruff the last spade with his own last trump, then re-enter dummy with the club queen, drew trumps with the 10 and 9, discard- ing his own low diamonds and, final- 17, concede a club,
To-morrow's Hand South dealer. Match-point duplicate. North-South vulnerable.
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108643
AKQ63 N VAJI W E
KQ108 ន
84 1095 O A743 JD52
AAJ 1076
VK4
OJ 6 B 4AQ7
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September 10, 1941.
By Walt Disney
JIFFY: KNIFE- SHARPENER 259
We're All Wrong
About Food
By Mrs Fred Maturin
(the traveller and travel writer)
WHAT is all this fuse
about food? This argument, for example, about whether food-ships shall be allowed into "starving" France?
It is, I know, extremely hard to starve, even if you want to.
In fact, the war will teach the valuable lesson that the great majority of people have always eaten double-even treble-the quantity of food neces- sary for health,
Thousands of deaths occur yearly from over-eating, but very few from under-eating.
The African native keeps well and performs strenuous work on two small meals of grain a day. Often the grain is uncooked though mixed with water.
It is only when a shooting- party comes along and em. ploys natives as servants and carriers, giving them, double the food they ever had before, that they lose their health.
My own treks in Africa education on this were an point. At first, we began by over-feeding our retinue-a6— well as ourselves.
We were used to it, like most Europeans. With us, ill-effects would begin only after middle-age.
A Sudden Change
But the servants and car- riers changed suddenly. They had all sorts of pains-boils, sore throats, eyes, ears, noses and feet. They lost their spirits and became slack.
Settlers had warned us but we had to find out for our- -selves.
It's queer how long it takes to learn some great truth in life. Some big shape-up is usually necessary. I got it on a trek from Nairobi into Abyssinia.
Near the border the party split up temporarily.
The Dutch driver, three of our friends and most of the natives were going with the wagon, along the Old Slave Road.
My husband, myself, two friends and three, native ser- vants were taking a short cut. across rough ground and vir 'gin forest, t
The two groups were to meet that ovehing "at" any easy landmark, We arrived there--but the others didn't:
Almost Foodless
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As it later transpired, they' had lost themselves in a waterless desert, and several of the oxen had strayed off, making movement difficult
Now the wagon had all our stores and food. Without it, in the wildest of wilds, we wero. In serious trouble.“
Wowote hungry croAS, worried. But at least there was a river nearby: We drank beartily and falt better? Net
That was the beginning of fourteen days with practic- ally no food at all.
My husband had a rifle, but only one round of ammuni- tion. The first morning he tried to kill a recd-buck with it, but missed.
"How long can people go without food?” he asked me.
"A long time, with water, I've been told," I said," "Per- haps wo'll see.'
"
Then we had a piece of luck. The native, cook who was with us produced a small bag of self-raising flour, a half-packet of table salt, and a few onions. 'He had been carrying them as a little standby for himself.
Food Truths
We decided to turn this small hoard into rations for two weeks. One teaspoonful of flour each per day, with half a small onion for dessert.
The flour was made into. tiny flat cakes, mixed with water and cooked over a wood fire.
For the first three days we felt very hungry indeed. But not ill.
After that, food didn't seem to matter much, so long as we drank plenty of water.
All the time we worked hard in various ways and without feeling any weak ness.
We made a bridge over the river. We made a hut of tree branches.
On the morning of the fif- teenth day, a scout from our party found us.
He brought food-a cooked ham-and four empty water- bags with a piteous note ask- ing for water.'
Although they had a large store of food, their water had given out after a few days and within a week, through thirst, they were all too ill to move.
When
we met them, they looked like shipwrecked mar- iners, while we had not felt Bo fit for years.
Even Doctors
That experience helped to teach me that we are all wrong about food in the "civi- lised" parts of the world.
Only a few doctors under- atand the truth. One of them wrote thus to the Preas somo time ago:-
"I have a fine practice and many patients, most of whom are within four days of per- fect health if they would do as I tell them.
"I have vainly assured them that they will not drop down dead if they will do a three or four-day fast, but will emerge cured of their ail- ments, and that if, after that, they will cut down their food' to half they won't want me again.
"Will they do it? Not a bit of it!
.
"They much prefer medi- cines, poultices, aches and pains, and even death.
"And so, my conscience be- ing clear, I continue to build up a fine practice.";
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Killed
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Mr Warren Lincoln Travis was 5 feet 8. He weighed 120 pounds and he was a very strong monmuch stronger he boasted, than Eugene Sundow or Louis Cyr or Arthur
He Saxoni once held in check two team of brewery horses struggling off in either direction. He won the 1918 for feats of muscle. He was "Police Gazette" diamond belt physical instructor to the Police De- partment under Theodore Roosevelt. Back in the days of the John L. Lincoln Robinson circus, Mr Warren Travis put his back to ni platform bearing an upright plane and
Ho lifted them off horses,
the ground. Thus he went through the years, never admitting that time age might catch up with this
did mighty strength. But
entch at Coney Island soon at Lincoln mid. up night recently. Mr Warren Travis had just played to the last. 10-cent audience. He Jified -a-can- then sat down to rest. He never got that weighed 1,000. pounds and
up again. The strongest man in the world" had died, 00,
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