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JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Experts Show Keen Bridge Analysis
By OBWALD JACOBY
WHEN today's hand
Was
played, North bid three dia- mondia in the hope of finding safety in one of the minor suits. Lester Bachner,
a
New York attorney. beon
partner my
prominent
who
in several national championships,
Chero- upon jumped to four spades with the South hand, expecting for game to have a fine play even if North happened to have only a singleton spade.
Bachner พอง A bit discon-
that cented to discover
North bed no spaden at all. As he won the first trick with the king of clubs he noted that he would probably lose a trump, a heart and two diamonds--if the
were alert enough to poberta take their tricks.
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The best chance for the con- tract was to develop a sort of squeeze and this could be done only if the enemy came through with a bit of co-operation,
to
Doclarer's first step was load a low heart towards dum- my's king. West played the nane, and dummy won with the king. Buchner then returned a heart, Weat winning with the ten.
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KOSTORI PRTÁS SERVICE, INT,—NUTNA TORK
"I've got some definite word on that money I owe you. I can't pay it.”
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by
THE • Beachcomber
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1954.
the drab life of every ageing aluminum containers. Key with committee which печет
waiter. meets, there comes a time when the members wonder whether they really exist officially.
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delinquent. (B)
4. Rall returned. (4)
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15. Just half a horse
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to a small
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#1. Midday, reads the same both
ways. (4)
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3. Nival udes inaké a famoun book,
(9)
5. At 10-minute intervals the restaurant must be cleared while the wall and floors are sprayed the tables with Zatumol, and with Pint
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9. EVERY guest
There have been inquiries in Whitehall about a committee which, never having met, has just been elected for sixth given a microscope, under which year of duty. Not unnaturally, to examine each mouthful of the more impatient among the food. members are asking what the committee is for, and where it would meet if ever a meeting have They summoned. been informed that there is no
is ad but it such committee, mitted that nobody has told them themselves, since diaband
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West continued with the ace of hearts, and South ruffed.
Bachner's next stop was to lead a low trump, East won with the five of spades and could Rave defested the contract Im- mediately by leading the ace of diamonds followed by # low diamond to his partner's king. Instead, not seeing his danger. East returned another heart make declarer ruff again,
After ruffing this heart, de- elarer led out all of his trumps, beginning with the ace and the king. When he led his last
he had two trump.
diamonds and a club in his own hand, wav- ing the queen of diamonds and two clubs in the duminy,
East had to save tw clubs, since otherwise declarec would lead his queen and overtake with dummy's ace. 11 East saved the blank ace of dia- monds, it was clear that South would cash the queen of clubs and then lead a diamond make
East lead a club dummy's acc.
to
to
East tried to save himself by discarding the ace of diamonds, but Bachner could then lead a diamond to forec out West's king and thus set up his own West had discarded his heart, so there was no long- the con- er any way to defeat tract.
♥CARD Sensek
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both sides vulner able, the bidding has been: South West North East 1 Dmd, 1 Spade 2 Clubs 2 Spades
You, South, bold: Spade 2, Hearts K-Q-7-4, Diamonds A- K-8-7-4, Clubs A-3-2. What do you do?
A-Bld three hearia, Besides Jour 10 points in high carda you have excellent distribution,
you can well afford a free rebld. The game is unlikely to be in hearts, but there is no harma, in saggesting the rult while more or less on your way to game in one of the minore.
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7. THERE should be finger- bowls containing a strong solu tion of Riboline on every table.
8. WHITE conte should be supplied to every patron at a nominal fec. Foulenough on the Riviera
the most
what does not exist cannot be OULENOUGH'S holiday tech. disbanded. Will it then remain nique on the Riviera is to
committee in
in hang about on shore until the non-existent
itself prepetuity, re-electing rach year? Or will sorne realist Parties begin to land from the
He follows yachts. in Whitehall discover that the promising party, and, either by only way to get rid of it is to drenching them in spilt drink or admit its existence and then treading on a lady's dog, gets in- Abolish It?
to conversation. He invites them all to his yacht "when she gets here." The "fool of a skipper" has usually stru
stranded him tem.. porarily, so they invite him to their yacht. An hour or two of for the bridge puts him right day, and off he goes to the next port of call, always dressed as a yachtsman,
always ready and with his card, inscribed; "Major Mortimer H. St. George Chaul font, Chaulfont Manor. Leices tershire."
code
wear 1. EVERY wailer must thick surgeon's gloves, and must be sprinkled, at 20-minute inter- vals, with a germicide powder.
2. KNIVES and forits must be wrapped in calico when not in
use.
3. BOTTLES of wine must be scrubbed clean in the cellar, and the wine, before decunting, must be flered through chemically solution of treated gauze into u Bonzol,
4. SLICES of bread
bo served mist
in
Tail-piece
DOG'S NOSE GETS GODDESS THE BACK. or rulls
locked (Headline in morning paper.)
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SOLUTION
TD CHECK YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE
CHESS PROBLEM
By J. ZALDO
Black, 9 pieces.
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White, 6 pieces,
YOUR BIRTHDAY...... By STELLA White to play: mate in two.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 7
to have a portant. Art and then talk about it. BORN today, you seem
Lalent
accumulatin 300 evuld be accused of boasting. money. To unly thing that prob. ably will keep you from dy ch is that you are inclined to spend u great deal on various 'Causes
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BUTTORNEY Key Romething
You that
need financial latice and you are right there with an open cheque book to make sure that ample funds are available. First, however, you have to be convinced that the plan You are not ono nway yuur money
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Ta
useženity.
You have native executive mud A Very Thanager) Latents and are
good person to put in charge of a projeck You will see that every- thing in duae property and on tinel You could cultivate a brighter sense of humour. You are too inclined to lake everything a little too seriously. You could show little пого enthualam without having 15 make
demonstrativel too you
This im especially true when it comes to love and romance, Marriage is Im portant in your life so don't walt too long before deciding upon a Fartner. Don't be too timid in pro- fring your love, either, or you might mise out wedding your real Jove.
Fond of the aria, you probably will have talents along thene lines but may develop your gifts only as a hobby rather than as a professor You enjoy listening to no munte.
Among those who were bom an Thomas Hooker, this date arci founder of Hartford; Samuel D. Barr, educator; William E. Mason, philanthropist; Leon FeuchtwaFUCT. author: George Cukor, Bim producer,
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your
birthday star and read the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth day ater be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, JULY 8
CANCER (June 27-July 23)-Gird yourself to do a hard tank today. You may need a lot of courage to accomplish it too,
Solution fo' posterdãy's problem:
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WOMANSENSE
Home Comforts
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
THE baby girl look so much a part of fishlon this season, is nently typified In cotton
IS
LEAVE
THESE TAIES
FOR THE PONIES
By LADY BOYLE
London bits" with a technique I call slovenly fashion seems to creep
UMMER brings its own the "pin-perm."
You pin up the back enda, Sun-, soak them in problems to us.
MAKE A STRIP the perm lotion shine is what we expect on from a homo-perm outas. Leave
must wear/B-MOUNT, it on for a while, rinse through If you our week-ends by the sea, with neutraliser, pause again, why not fold it into a triangle What we often got, even if
and
finish up by spraying and tie it round to the back of the
the neck? Or make it into a is shining, is a thoroughly with water. sun
the strip and put strong breeze.
and dry front and back, Leave the plas in.
Tenving naturally, either
by hair visible on the crown of patience, or in the open air the head and tying it jauntily
Problem number one: What
to do with your hair? The long and the short of it is keep it long or short! It is the between lengths difcult to control.
TAKE STOCK
that aro
the hair
(but not too much au). When
you finally take the pins out at the side? Or bring the strip from the back, and twist tho And some you'll
pretty per- ends cunningly round in froht? manently turned up enda.
What do you do while wait- But why wear kerchiefs any- ing for it to dry? Tie a ker- way? Let short hair bowind- chlet
cuts Long round your head, knot- swept. It look I watched model Zoe New- ing it firmly under your chin? hair can be kept well controlled don't! Whenever the with light, brush-off-ablo spray ton crossing the road the other Please
weather storts, day. Sho
this lacquers. Was Д lesson in good casual, tidy, very short hair- style. But of course, you căn- not go for this cut if you are to strong-featured. You have tako stock of yourself truth- fully, and not listen to the ad- vice of doting parents.
Long hair is the answer for women with stronger features. Jane Ford, who appeared as EL beauty on TV's Quite Contrary, has hair which is four feet long.
looked
Ricek
and tidy. asked her about It, and she said she never had the slightest trouble with it. And she quite used to the extra weight,
I am not suggesting four-foot hair for you, but hair that will really the away from the face, leaving no wispy stragglers, is n terrine boon.
0
On
is
HOW TO PREVENT FACIAL FURROWS
THERE are different but, when you diet, do it under
kinds of wrinkles!
doctor's care. The family physician will be only to Laugh lines are nothing to pleased to outline & course of worry about. They are charm treatment that, will fag, often disappear when the youthful lines a face is in repose
disposition, woman
The ugly wrinkles are those caused
by a They're the penalty a pays for being nasty and bad- temperet.
pyjamas, comfortable for cool
Some lines and wrinkles, Dre siceping, and when worn with Two soft waves in front will the result of neglect. Too much a matching coat ntee for loung- soften the hard line of a bun exposure to strong sunlight may Ing purposes The pyjamas are And I mean bun! Pontes bring them, as it dries the skin. cut for all the world like
have tails in case they are Wrinkles can be avoided by
human-massaging a heavy child's rompers and both pieces troubled by flies.
cream inta merely put the skin are black and white check, with beings, pony-tails
daily. It feeds heads out
of proportion. You tissues and cops the skin fibres Die addition of red
cherries in
look well-groomed toned. the coat print. The sleeper has
with a woving mane swinging round medicine and a scooped string ties over the shoulders, about, The coat is buttoned down
can never
If
the
These treatments should be» when a women gets Into
the front with a drawstring maybe you prefer upturned gard
waist. red string the and but-
Lor:9.
ends
at the
you have a short cut.
the thirties. With care and re- for the rules of health back. You can she should be able to avoid avold those irritating "straight facial furrows. These days,
there's no reasort why womar, no matter what age is, can't be attractive,
Notice
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
It is worthwhile to put colour- of clothes, even colourfast gar- ments, through several fresh the first laundering. This washes out,excèsia dye, and
then the garments hay
bo washed with other things.
Buds for
If stamping ink is left on the Jabric after you have, Anished
BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Game of Tag With Insects
-They Were All Friends of Christopher's-
By MAX TRELL
HRISTOPHER Cricket said
to Knurf and Hand,
children with the stradow
The sun turned-about names:
(which is the way grass looks when you're email).
said
"Come along with me!"
the Christopher. He walked straight forward, pushed the first few blades of grass aside, and there they were, on a lovely, shady path that went winding through the field.
is shining. It's a beautiful after noon. Let's go down the rond and meet the gang!"
"What gang?" asked Knari. "All my friends," said Christo- pher. "But you'll have to make yourselves small"
Louder and louder grew the voices. All at once, Kmart and Hanld and Christopher came out on what appeared to be the smoothest and most beautiful lawn that anyone had ever seen (it was really only a bed of Hand made moss!) That wasn't A dozen creatures were dagit- Shadows
Christopher can ing up and down. ony grooted them all, "Hello, Beatle!
No Sooner Said....
So Knari and themselves small, much trouble. make themselves
almost
The Shadows were so small that grass looked like trees.
who
size they please. They're Uke Hello, Ant! Hello, Grasshopper! slug, who caught the. Snail, who rubber bands they stretch or Hello, Mitel Hello, Snaill Hello, caught Knarf, they snap together.
Bug! Hello, Worm! Hello, Slug! Christopher Cricket look Hello, Caterpillar! Hello, Fly! Kruarf and Hanfd by the hand, Hello, Locust! Hello, Moequito! then all three of them went Hello, Beel” hopping, skipping and jumping The whole gang came running down the road. By and by, they over
greet Christopher came to an enormous field. It Cricket and Knart and Hanid. looked more enormous than It "We're playing tag!" announced
for when you are small, the Beetle. even little things look large.
was.
Wa
ما
'Round and 'Round
who caught the Bee, who caught the Mosquito, who caught Beetle, who caught the Fly, who caught the Locust. who caught the Mite, caught the Ant, who caught the Grasshopper, who caught Hanld, who caught Christopher Cricket went, again and 'round and 'round.
As the afternoon
word on БОТО
of the gang went away and now members of the gang "Come play with us!" cried appeared. The Caterpillar went the Grasshopper.
to sleep, and the Moth came "All right! T'll be 'It sald The Bee went back to her hive Christopher,
and the Firefly came, The Ant VIRGO (Aug. 26-Sept., 3)- you The bidding is the same as in arenicient
Knarl and Hanid stood at the
The next second, everybody went to her hill and the Glow- and concientious in the question just answered, You, your work-be 16 at home or an edge of the Geld. They looked scattered, including Kaart and worm came.
Finally, everybody went home South, hold: Spade 2, Hearts office your rewards are great, as hard as they could, but they: Hand, Christopher Cricket went
could see no one, even though scrambling after them, dodging and the moon and the stars K-Q-7, Diamonds A-K-Q-7-4, LIRA (Sept. 24-Det. 23)~~ The
voices sounded loud and around dandelions and butter came. They may have played tog Clubs A-7-9-2; What do you more you get done today, the more the
time you will have for pleasure clear. All they could see were cups and daisies.
with each other. But no one 'blades' of `grass rising up into
Finally, Christopher caught..could be sure, for everyone was SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov, 221-You the air like tall, graceful trees the Caterpillar, who caught the asleep.
do?
TODAY'S QUESTION
Answer Tomorrow
DUMB-BELLS
JUNIOR. MUST HAVE JOINED THE SCHOOL BAND, HE WRITE: THAT HE. FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A FRENCH TU R!
They heard the sound of many. LEO (July 2° Aug. 21)-Don't let voices, shouting and laughing. yourself gef in the middle of an "It's the gang," said Christo- Argument between friends. Better for you to stay clear of 1%
pher Cricket, "They're playing a game of tag."
nád Kumurement tomorrow.
others.
need to be patient with your
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Déc. Étymi Don't efter. your opinión LICHOKE specifically asked for it, or you could get involved in an argment.
CAPRICORN (Doc] · 23-Jan. 193 Tess any inspiration
practic ability before you Give of the deep BIO DE 2, Daw project..
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some embroidery, try using a weak solution of bleach, then wash the piece at once in rich soapsuds; rinse, and dry very thoroughly.
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