YOUR BIRTHDAY.
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By STELLA
SATURDAY, JULY 24
BORN on this first day of the incoming sign, Leo, you are ruled by the sun and have many imperious, regal and domineering characteristics. This, however, is tempered by your innate wisdom, your general kindliners toward others and your true love of all humanity. You are eager to help all those who are less fortunate than yourself and you really put into practice the precepts of brotherly love.
You are an independent soul and you have very defnito idaan. Siden you have energy, imagination and initiative, your ideas are likely to catch on, and even, perhaps, to change pre- valling customs: You mombers of the fair sex have a great deal of magnetic charm. You know how to dress and could easily become foation leaders or-if you want a career-designers.
Your Intuitions are exceptionally keen, and you would be wise to follow their lead at all times. You have shop sense of humoue un can always see something amusing In life, no matter
Low dork the clouds.
You are vinational and very affectionate. You will be hap- poest If you have your own home and family upon which you Can lavish your love. You must be careful when it comes to neting on Impulse This is quite different from following your Intuitions. Learn the difference aort you will rarely, if ever, make a mistake in judgment,
Among those born on this date were Alexandre Dumas pere, and Lord Dunny, authors; William Gillette, netor-playwright: Ernst Bloch, composer; and Dean Pitman, shorthand experi
Let
To flat what this stars have in store far you forburrow, select your birthday sin and read the corresponding paragraph Marina Trathefaty
be your daily made
SUNDAY, JULY 25
LEO (July 24-Aur. 23)- as a change of seene today so that you can enjoy some variety to spice the monkany of you daily routine
VÍRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) — Fur
your kaner-time hours. select a hobby which in con- pletely different from your daily Job.
LIBRA (Sept. 24-0cl 23) —
De rure that you are getting the best possible benefits from your
Relax tenulous. week-end.
"
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)
you are deizing home
This ant
evening, get an early start
Vod
congested traffic.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)—thriving can be a pleasure there is aisu some hazard. but there
watch out for Drive carefully; The other fellow.
too CAPRICORN
20)-Baste catt
(Dec. make
23-Jan. serious
So.
if driving home this
waste and cauze acendent
get an early start.
The spiritual aspects of your life could bring you special juy and consolation just AL this
time.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20)—— Attend the church or your chotee this morning and then, perhaps, devote the balance of
day the
10 the pursuit of romance.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) Perhaps members of the family
distant places gathered together coming.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)- "The companionship of your family and a few close friends can bring much joy today.
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a bountiful share of talent in many you have You are termes scientific, dramatic,
have and Once you have sel great dead of physleal and mental energy. Your mind
to something, you will plough through to success without stopping.
You have a ne speaking votre and you may And that the stage berkons. It is ikely. however, that you would be happiest
in the managerial or production side of this field, for you are a Intle too much of an individualist to take directions from someone else. Your magnetic personality makes you a natural lender.
You have a deep lave of beauty in all its forms, and it is important that you live and work in harmonious surroundings. You
state, Inclined in be moody, and when you are in such a are
Your intuitions are so strong as you cannot du your best work.
You can usually outguess and outthink to be psychic at times. #competitor. Thus talent, properly used, enn be of great help in forwarding your career,
There is a deep, Inner side to your nature which very few penetrate. You have creative powers in the arts and should uluvate them. In selecting a fe partner, find someone whose cultural and intellectual tastes are similar to your own if you want to find complete happiness
Among those born on this date were. Maxield Parrish, artist; David Belisco, thustrieal producer. William de Mille, Alm pro- durer; and the Best Earl of Balfour, statesman.
To dad what the sturs have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. your birthday star
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By OSWALD JACOBY
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trumps held by West in 40- day's hand.
How many tricks do you suppose that you can win with those two cards whenever trumps are led? The answer to
BY THE WAY
1954.
man's clothing has steadily
gentury er more. Nensuccessfully for pejurning in
ties are
SPOTLIGHT ON
Save time flying
Pare: 19
"ARATI
to spend time Seeing
MEN'S FASHIONS AUSTRALIA
the
■HE÷British male, even German allows himself in the though he may be a uffice is an open-neck, shirt in Socialist, is notorious- most sweltering, weather. And Germans disdain such ly conservative as regards effeminate nongense as perfume dress.
or even after-shave lotion i
Sant' London is probably for men
They frown' itäolon what Paris is for women, and a like jeans and leave them wave of quiot
excitement youngsters and girls with G1 boy ripples through staid Savilo friends, In Communist Enot Row, hub of the male fashion Germany a sudden fashion for world, If it decided in a crepe-soled, show, for men
moment of daring that waist- coats in future should have one less button.
to
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sternly suppressed by He Jooders ES |"degeneruleand capitalist."
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In
Attempts to introduce more NEW YORK: RAINBOWS colourful fashions havo hod Uttle support The so-called THE average American buya Edwardian stylo of tight
one sult a year. trousers, gaudy waistcoats and
iho longer than normal coats, which
the evening and in might have caught on in modl- sports held the American male fled form, became discredited really lets loose, Pink, denim rowdies dinner jackets for summer are when gang of young
started wearing the style as sort of uniform.
a supplanting'white, worn with or
without a cummerbundi
By Beachcomber
next night, after ON The
dinne ot Sens, Claude managed to substitute his own pack of cards for Rosita's, He was soon making up bis losses. Suddenly both women
For colour, the Englishuman looks to his ceremonial uniforms, began to roar with laughter,
which when worn amid the "You win, Caplain Foul-pageantry of great occasions, enough," said Jonquit, "Who an are the most colourful In the carlh are
repited world.
you two?" the astonished warrior. "How's Sir Claude?" asked
BERLIN: SHIRTS the yacht
We used to work at Rosita. ***
naming a said Jonquil,
GALAXY of coloured shirts redshirts, then private gambling bell not un-first
The brownshirts, now blueshirts and 10 Foulenough. evening ended in genoral | "jazzy" shirts reflect changing merriment. "Are you really men's fashions in Germany. widows?" nsked Foulenough. "Nol yet," said Jonquil.
known
Now that the Nazia have gone the shirts in the Sovie! half of Early next morning the two Germany have changed to blue, the Communists' που colour. ladies left the hotel in the car.
in the Western zones they have came down, When Foulenough the manager explained that the gone all jazzy-a sost of mixture ladles had hnd an urgent of all three colours, which prob-
him
expresses the state of mind presented
ably mesange, and with the bill for the three of of the average German, to be them. He was forced to break tween East and West, Secretly Info the 148,000 francs he had the Nazis still wear their brown extracted from Janquil's bag. shule,
to Parts, He took
from this permanent Apart smiling to himself. "The biter state of "shirtitis" men's inghions Jolly nearly bit," he in Germany are just plain sober, was
to himself, stroking The most informality the average murmured his well-stocked wallet.
the train
"Did you hear a decibel?”
this question was quite surpris- ing when the hand was actually played in the recent tournament W for the Vanderbilt Cup.
the
Milton Moss, playing on team that won the champion ship, led the ace of clube from the West hand. After studying the dummy carefully, Moss de- cided to continue with another club.
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CHESS PROBLEM
By S. JURIC
Black: a pieces.
in London WHAT you hear W is not nalse but decibels,
han investigation An
proved has "the ear
a defenco that mechanism which makes it less and less sensitive as noise im- pinging on it becomes more and more Intense." Put more simply, this meona
that if you balo tive louder the Dummy ryfed, and declarer noise
nolaes HOW that there was now no become the more pleased you
bo, But. the heart will
lew lines hope of establishing
further suit and then gutting back to
the report EDYF: dummy in order to cash long "What the noise meter cangoi hearts. South therefore decided register is the nuisance quality to ruff all of his losing clubs of sound." So make what you in the dummy.
out of this astounding Declarer began by cashing medley of information. A noiso dummy's top hearts, and West meter, by the way. recently
112
for casually dropped the queen of registered
décibels hearts on the
second of these. Wagner's Rido of the Valkyries,
White, 6 pieces, 32 decibels for South therefore ruffed the next
as against
drill in, fälgware White to play: mate in two. heart with the ace of trumps in pneumaile
singing Rustiguzzi,
Solution
yesterday's order to prevent a possible over- Road. ruff.
broke problem: "Dormez Blen, Lizette," the instrument at 434 docibels. a pure delight for the defence mechanism of the ear. "Henring strange decibels In the base (dis _ch); 1 ment, Mrs Crudstone went to Declarer then lod dummy's Investigate, ... low last heart, intending to als- his hand. This was a good idea. card the losing diamond from Behind the octagonal
and South should have stuck to his plan. When East ruffed with the four of spades, however, South foolishly overruffed with the seven
He then ruffed a club in dum- my, Teturned to his hand by ruming a heart with the king of trumps and ruffed his last club in dummy.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) This is a line working day. You --Creative work in the arts colis might receive a promotion and for a lot of hard, concentrated salary advance now-or soon. work. It is not all "inspira-
tion".
PIBCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) — Plan to spend a quiet evening The aspects are both good and Quite ely you will bad today, go watch your step. at home. have a hard day's work
is #nd All well
you move will need relaxation,
enutiously. LIBRA (8cpt. 24-Oct. 23) — ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) -- It it In back in work for you De extremely careful of what Moss had already discarded a after your vacation, there is you say. If there is a difference low diamond on the fourth probably a lot to oc done. Get of opinion, be very politic and round of hearts, and ho now discovery.
storted early
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Deo.
diplomatic.
wisely discarded the ace of dia- TAURUS (Apr. 81yMag® 21)—monds.
You may flod great consolation By this time, South had only
"SCORPIO" (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)— It may
be about time to start planning next month's activities. It planning a trip, make your atrangements. 22)-If you find need for quiet relaxation this evening, why not you devote all your energies to try a good book!
some really hard work that CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan pays. 201-Facts, not
are UANCER (June 22-July 28)- the only safe bits of informa- There's romance in the air, but tion to follow. Never act until be sure to remember that it's you are sure.
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(Art criticism.) ·
the revolving in a valued friendship today. the ten of diamonds and the NOR did
wedges, to and under Perhaps make a new contact ten-nine-three of spades, South of importance.
needed two of these four tricks each other, but I expect so, GEMINI (May 22-June 21)— | in order to make"? his'contract. This can be a praftable day He led his losing diamond, hop-Nothing to do with me
ing that he would get a chance to ruff safely with the three of spades.
Thanks to Weet's discarding, surgean's roe, however, East was able to win this trick with the jack of dia-
S the cannibal cook said, monds and could then continue when the tribe bowled for with the king of diamonds.
its dinner. "Is there a surgeon Bouth ruffed with the nine spades, hoping List Scorelareants in the house??
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Adam's sports wear is colourful 15 Eve's. ranging through the colours of the rain- bow. Black shoris or slacks, however, are coming into vogue, teamed with pastel shirts and juckets.
MADRID: FANCY SHOES
LTHOUGH the well-dressed
in-
A Spaniard's clothes are distinguishable from those worn by his English opposite number, in the matter of "accessories" the Spaniard ands plenty scope for Individuality.
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Shirts, all with widely splay- collars, hove В neatly embroidered monogram on the left breast, which makes excellent laundry mark. Because walk so much, Spaniards by spend plenty of money on shoes. Footwear is on the fancy side cool, basket-weave designs in and white, flat heelod slipper-style models, and even backless sandals,
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An adventurous colour Instinct finds expression in white, silver, or canary-coloured socks, worn without gartera and reaching
four inches only
above the unkie; in gay, waist-length ties that
seeds- would brighten a man's catalogue, and in pastel- tinted handkerchiefs.
COPENHAGEN: HAIRDOS
HIS fortnightly "hairdo" is a
iz
most Important event the fe of many a Dano (aven those who don't aspire to ba fashionable) and whether a "perm" or a mere "water-wavo” 1 involved.
Italian "TT" shirts, which have a flap sectured by a button just in front of each shoulder and thus no buttons down the front,
.: Aro, popular.Bo are heavy woclien, V-necked, sleeved Italian pullovers. used instead of a jacket or lumber- Jucket, capocially by motorists.
Coloured waistcoals are in- Sreasingly seen, Juckets are no longer than in other pountries but only teenagers go in for long jackets, grotesquely drainpipe trousers and high
collars.
Belts ousted braces long ago ns most Danes remove their
| Jackets indoors where the heat
is often greater in winter than in summer,
VIENNA: SHORTS
HARDLY HAVE ENOUGH MONEY LAUNCHING STRATEGY, TO EMPLOY
A COACH
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"pow
fangled" fashions for men Is an uphill task in colourful Austria, where there is strong. established competition in the shape of "Lejor homem, the traditional, mones-seina leather shorts worn by young and old an ever Occasion whether it be to the office or ori a Sunday Jaunt. Nune YAN
In the winter-me there the colourful country suit, the ...."SteirerAnzug," gally. ·OSTLE=
bright mented with
#ICEH facings" "and" festooned with boná huge, fancy, hard-carved buttons.
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Nevertheless, young alfoot· "wide" hals of caricature mizo, abbreviated trousers - buļļt on "pencil lines," shoes with | Chrum inch soles, and on Sun.
day the young blooda arp to
be
| seen in the amusement parka dropped in the Ipori: version 07
cowboyoutate, and are apt. to be confused with the enter- faindre.
But the greatest fashion, for all who can afford it is a sult made
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