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JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Here's A Gamble Worth Trying

By OSWALD JACOBY

If you reached

a grand slam

contract On today's hand,

you would have reason

gratulate yourself

to con-

for good

bidding. The odds are 0 to 1 inginert 4-0 break in trumpa, and the grand slam is therefore a very fine gamble.

It is possible

make

the

grand slam even against a bad trump break, but it calls for the

most exnol technique lo the play of the cards.

can work

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it out for yourself

before you read on.

You must naturally win the find trick with the neo of clubs, Next you Cost: the are of

apades in the first step of your campaign to guard ugoinat SL

bad trump break.

You must begin

the trumps

by leading to dummy's nee. If

NORTH AQJ732

A083

AB

484

WEST

9804

EAST AK 100

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None

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SOUTH (D)

MA

KQ972

KQJ 107 AG

North-South vul.

South West

1

3+

IN.T. Paas

7

North EaŠ Pass 14 Post Pass ❤

Pays Poss Pass

Роби Pass Opening lead-ud K

to

West happens to have all your trumps, you ear do nothing about it. If East hos all four trumpa, you must save both of

high trumps

draw your irumps without luss, West dis- cardy a club on the first round of trumps and the situation therefore exposed.

is

Your next step in to lead the queen of spades from duminy, and East covers with the king. You gladly ruff, since you were not quite sure whether to try to discard your losing club # Evo

spado in dummy or whether to try to discard dummy's losing club on one of your good diamonds,

on

Having established dummy's nck of spaces, you return ૩ dummy with the nine of dia- monds in order to cash the jack of spades and discord your losing club. You can then lead n heart through East.

East puts up the ten of hearts, and you win with the queen, You next lead a diamond

to dummy's ace and lead an- other trump back through

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

A strange

BORN today, you are

cumbination of the optimist and "worrier". You fuss about imagina- tive posibility then you shrug your shoulders and way. "So what? probably won't happen to me, alter ali You wanto a lot of energy bu Tid fashion. Yet, when a real estris ice come, you feel it with caim TICAN, fortitude and real personal

courage and usually with a smile en your face, And the worse it in, the lem you let it show! Despite this, you have strang emetlení, which need to be held in check, Jest they lead you astray, just at the wrong Brae.

You have a great dent of energy and should find something that can- tinually holds your interest. Other, wise, you will become dissatisfied and restiem on the job. There is a touch of genius within you which doesn't qulfɑ know what to do with Itrelli Fond of all that is beautiful. you probably have

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distinct

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creative talent if you can only find it. You will be able to do so many things a 11e better than averago that you will be inetined to dis- *paic your energies ant spread them over too wide a tiold, Con- centration to rome wingle objective is the answer,

l'opular with niempers of e oppanite sex, you will have several oppurtunities to wed. Scleet sonic- one who can give you encourage- ment and inspiration.

Ainong thone bor on this đnto Are Thomas Nast, noted cartoonist: Margaret Songster. reformer, Irma Seydel,

Adelina Patti, singer; Phil Cook, comedian; Myrtle Iteed. author. George Wharton James, explorer

To fnd Which The stars have in +tore for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and rend the corres- pending paragraph Let your birth- day star be your dally guide.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

LIBIA (Dept. 24-0c1. 23 Avold all kinds of risks Suck fo common pince, regular routine if you want the best results.

22)-

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. Accidents could happen today, so be on the safe side and watch your step. Eany does it, an don't try to rush,

BAGITTARIUS (Nov, 21.Dec. 22)— If you don't try to burry a job today, you will be ali right. Think curefully before acting on anyUstag.

CAPRICORN Your judgment may not be up to par and you will be inclined to lose Your temper over nothing! Watch

(Dec 23-Jan 20)+

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Fob, 30)- The odds are slightly in your favour today, but don't push your luck too faror 100 fast. Act slowly.

PISCES trh. . Not your day for adventuresorne

20-Mar.

201

CHESS PROBLEM

By K. VISSERMAN

Black, 13 pieces.

White, 9 pieces.

East. This permits you to draw White to play: mate in three. the rest of the trumps without Solution to Saturday's loss and claim the balance of problem;

1. K-B6, any; 2. Q, or K |mates.

the tricks.

*CARD fenset:♦

Q-with both sides vulner-

able, the bidding has been:

North

East

South

West

1.Dmd. .Pars

You, South, hold: Spades K- :9-5-2, Hearts Q-J-8, Diamonds Q-5, Clubs K-0-3-2. What do you do?

Double * Redbl. 1 Heart Puss

?

A-Bid one nostrump. This bid shows about 10 to 12 points, since 'with less you could not have redoubled and with more you would bid two no-trump. It 'also indicates bulanoed distribu- tion and one stopper in the Fenemy's suit.

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same as in the question Just answered. You, South, hold: Spades K-9-3, Hearts Q-J-B, Diamonds A-Q-5; Clubs K-9-3-2. What do you do? Antwer Tomorrow

DUMB-BELLS

NO:1

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I TOLD YOU NOT TO PIGHT, |DIDNT NOW YOU HAVE LOST SUMA

TWO OFIRSTHEM YOUR TEETH IN MY POCKET

CROSSWORD

ACTON

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1 Possibly an ophemeral saint. (3) 6. From ella and this, the borgs of Biftand wore heard faintly blow- Ing. (4)

V. Take the deparation out of com-

inerde. 10)

10. Gramin gets mixed in that ta. (7) 12. Bass gets an extra pound, 151 10. The beginning and and of we

feet, 18) 14. Appearance bidden in Uncle

Andrew. (4) 19. Navy in a setback. (5)

17. Shu's one of the family. (5) 19. Happen the commanding once

is, a bit of a dog ? (3)

-22. Leave the poličiial organisation.

79. M.PH, is the bom here. (4) 24. Dally ý But not quite,

(Down Con

1. Motor: ii. (aning.) · (9)

It's off control now.. (8) Beware the awful one, the youth was told); (0):

4. Made merry. :(Dion

5. Bestwo alrections inside. (B)

a. Out, for American style. ($)

7. 270" stress is on this syllabis.

The detentos aguina to,

too

prien in American nima, ((8)

Ket into the group. (8) Aymerry, altairuki: BREAST Teutonia dold golour. (4) You Ket ades, for a conIS, DOOR-

Ana Guer la quite foard, (8)

explota Look very carefully before you leap into anything at all.

ARIER (25kr. 21-Apr. 20) Clouds in your sky! Be alert to the unexpected ant the surprise ร not be an unhappy one.

TAURUH (Apr. 21-May 217- Be discreet in all you say and do If you wish things to move along normally. Don't be too aggressive.

GEMINI May 22.June 21)- Although the planetary signs are not for purplelous," a cautious" "watt and sce" attitude sonid help you out.

23)-

CANCER

22-July (June

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WOMANSENSE

Joy For The Bachelor An Underdog's Day

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HOUSEHOLD

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furniture bourd to prevent staining

scrub it chver..

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If you have been able to make a

should

the

An easy and economical way to clean copper-dip half a Jemon in salt and rub the ob- ject. Rinse in hot water and

elsh with a dry cloth,

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or Pomatoes are easier

At The Fair

London.

By HAZEL MEYRICK

The atmosphere was like a skeisie Intrigued me. You would NOOD Is one of the most women's club, with the cooks in hood a hammer and sickle,-I

their national important toples in my tonicthing

costume leaving Imagine, to hack off a lump and on the zove while then it has to be boiled for hours life. I have to choose it, they chatted with thoir audience in an iron pot.

buy it; prepare it, cook and and swapped recipes with each eat it. And frequently I other. need to rack my brains to of their kitchens, the continental showing, sticks

As soon as they took possession

Nibbling Slavyanskiya rusks, I examined all the bread ch and TYO think what to buy.

loaves.

There decorated them to

whene several But after visiting the suit their own taste. Out came too some of them with mile- kinds of cooked meats on display

housewives

from Holland long names. Imagine going into a shop and asking for a Soviet- from

skoya sausage! -

feli

million-pound British Food frills sound the shelves, blue and Fair at Olympia, I am be. ginning to wonder why.

I have never, in my life, seen so much food in so short a time -from huge sides Danish bacon and boot from Argentina to luscious peaches from Bulgaria and mouth-melling sweets from Russia.

the

CLUMSY BEAR

called

white gingham

beaded heavily Yugoslavia where ́un exceed- woman was standing at

unapproachable - looking ingly stoves, so unapproachable that I didn't dare nak what she was, children like chocolate rabbits I was glad to soe that Russian cooking.

and imitation' money wrapped in' The tailan team went mad tifos Some sweels end hung straw hats and donkeys Clumsy Bears caught my eye IMPRESSIVE VARIETY

on the well, and proudly put out and I

I asked

ny.' guide about for display what must surely be What Impressed me most, the longast, Chianti bottle in the ference.

thom. There was hurried con-

I was from a cook's point of view, was

afraid I had werid-its neck was four feet started an international incident. the variety of food from the high.

Then a blonde in a blue suit ex- Commonwealth countries. Coffee from

African Pakistan displayed her trail- the picture on the wrappers.

plained they were called 'after Kenya, South oranges, New Zealand dairy tonal brass work, whlic produce end woxdesful wines Portugal strung nil sorts of

Feeling slightly peckish, I and fruit from Australia.

things from the ceiling dried moved to Denmark and had Like many of the newer fish, garlic and onions Tho some cheeses on

a stick. I was generation of housewives,

Dutch kitcher sported cheeses of brought up with the ration eve

and had a blue Half the fun in an exhibition book, and became used to bear colour,

while Delft plate on the like this is in getting hold of. the brunt of the shopkeepers wall. The Belgium team had samples. The golden rule la to whims. So It gave me a sadistle borrowed a beautiful set of size up your demonstrator,

400 people at the

and saucepans handle lier accordingly. with copper moulds actually competing with from the Embassy in London. are two fool-prood methods of

and pleading

getting a free taste: one is to gaze grovelling actually to please BEHIND THE CURTAIN

the underdog,

at the object as though you have the much-

never seen one before, the other ilgned and insignificant little Cooks from 22 countries were to ask a shower of stupid ques- represented. I was most curious tions. But never, never grab Invariably miss, and to try

Cach

other,

me,

woman, the housewife,

SUCCESSFUL HAUL

I like variety in my cooking. to know what they ate behind You will I'm not one of the ple-on- the Iron Curtain, so I made a won't have the nerve Monday, Ish-on-Tuesday brigade, boo-line for the vast Russian brain. so 1 hurried straight away to pavilion. the International Kitchen section, to see what cooks from other countries were doing. COLOURFUL SPICES

The dishes from frscinated

me.

The first thing that caught my gye there looked highly inedible.

To prove the success of my It was a free giant sturgeon in methode -- my haul included: a. tank.

But I had to agres Sausage and luncheon meat.

fruit juice

the East with my Russian guide that it bacon and eggs, chocolate, tresh- They

offered really had a friendly face and baked broad, hot thinks, soup, strange and colourful spices, certainly produced excellent fah and ment Their exotle and sometimes in- caviar.

and bisculte,

puffs and comprehensible menus ranged

chetee

tea, pickles,cog sprend The Russians had on show Buananalo ish fried from

dirled

curry and

and gingerbread! to some extraordinarily British enough varieties of food to keep

For comples". I award top somaling you well-fed for years, and marks to the Australians. They looking dare such as

Do the huge selection of wines, cigare had special eating counters, a pudding from Pakistan. really

good servies and plenty of cold not semolina out there? and Vodkan. to peel

The fiat, hard cakes of tda, drinks to revive you it your ap- When ironing coloured clothes if you run the back of a silver Is it on antidote for their sting-

stamped with a hammer and potilo began to flag.. use knife over them. This loosensing hot curry? which aren't colour-fast, an extra muslin cloth on tho the peel,

1. KO (July 24 Aug. 27)- A clothes sprinkler filled with con-liquid shampoo is handy for carefully, Postpone plans washing the children's hair. for expansion until a little later on.

Husine maller should sidered

VIOU

Jani

(Aug. 24-Rept 233 Slow up A little. Yesterday's fant may call for a lie canler today. Don't high-pressure

pace

think.

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Pixies and the Rainbow

-They're Looking for Its Pot of Gold-

By MAX TRELL

INARF and Hanid

the

never And It," he said, looking at O'Scowl.

"Gel up!" sak! O'Scow). shadow-children with the "I'm too tiret, said Me- turned-about names, couldn't Snooze, "We're just wasting have been more surprized. They, our time. We're never going didn't believe their own eyes at to find it."

Arst. But it was true. There, "Now Just one moment,” sald walking down the main street Hanid sternly

the ized In town, side by side, were Pixle O'Scowl. "You'd better Pixie O'Scowl and Pixle Me- tell us what this is all about—” Snasze.

It was really remarkable, Konrt and Hanid often saw the pixies out in the fields, on the other side of the garden wall. They lived in O'Cheer Hall in the roots of the Old Oak; and thera were always one or moro of them sitting around at times of the day.

On the Loose

all

Well," he said, "I'll tell you what we're looking for, though I don't think you're going to be able to help us. We're looking for the rainbow."

The rainbow!" Hanid ex-. claimed in astonishment

"There's no rainbow here," fald Kuart.

7-8

"Now just one moment," mid Hanid, seizing the Pixie.

way down the road. Then I saw it cross over the bridge and get into town. It's here SOME WHERE,”.

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"Oh, they've lost something? Hanid said to Knarf,

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