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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1955.

JACOBY DUMB-BELLS Life Begins With

ON BRIDGE

This Type Hand Can Be Mangled

By OSWALD JAÇONY

IT'S very sy to go wrONH

witt the piny of today's

П

hned. As a matter of fact, very experienced player 1222- nged to thangle it wiren the hand was actually dealt. Since the hund Is fairly Common type. It's worth looking nt,

West opened the- druce ui heart, and that suit was tun- Unued until South ruffed The third round. South saw that the would come buth of his tricks from clubs, and he wrongly de- cided to go right after them. He led a club to dummy's queen. another club to the uce, and then ruffed a club in the dummy with the queen of spades.

This play established the rest of the clubs, and South decided to draw trumps. He enshell the king and ace of spades, but then stopped for

belated thought. He now hod ime smalt trump left in dummy and the Jo of Frumps

Jas <wn hand. One trump was still cnet.

monte

If he drew The last trurap and led his good eluts, the op- ponents would have the ace of dimmonds unct heart to take the last two tricks.

In the hope of avonh

Inte

#s

South left the last time oul and lsd a diatpond towards

WEST

72

108 7 2

• A 108 AJ 1002

IM, AFRAID THAT SHE INDULGES

IN TOO MUCH [LOQUACITY/

NOT A

ALLISHE NEVER TOUCHES A PROP

TARGET

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MADY words ol C fabr letters ut more CAD you ke from

fester to the aquare OD tho

right?

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A Paper Round

-or does it?

By JAMES BARTLETT

TS it wrong that an under- carn his' living for a time as a graduate should have to temporary porter or lifting find a temporary job during potatoes or carrying the post-

bog.

There

vacations?

was othing w nonst Yes, any British univer- with the old-fashioned idea that alty nuthorities.

spare-tuno effort is worth whljc, Yes, says But the new habit of seeking the 85,000-strong National State aid when times are hard Union of Students.

das pushed the old virtue into So, on this view, the the background, union is pressing the Minis.

WHAT AN UPROAR ¡try of Education for higher L

krante. For out of £28,- NOT many years ago all the best millionaires were' pronui 000,000 now spent on univer. to boast that they used to Nity Mantr the hard-up deliver newspapers out of schoul student facing an average hour. of 20 weeks' vacation a year can expect just £20 for his holiday money. may be

O

5

B

In making cach word "the tetiera in each of the small squarce

Red once only. Each word must contain the targo letter to the centre squaro, and there must be at least one nine-letter word in the list, No plurals :

no proper names; no foreign words, TODAY'S TARGET 20 words. Solution on Mon day.

YESTERDAY'S NOLUTION A010 alipa ALLIGATOR argt! argoi aqu

unla gall valliot phot of gut gir viair pleat

gout gorilla grati prili grit Groat largo Loga tria.

NORTH <DI

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BY

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BOUTH

♣ AJUT

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EAST

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♦ 02

North-South vul.

North East Poss

South

West

3

Pasa 1 Puss 14 Pass

Pasa

Pusa Pass

PORA

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Opening lead-♥ 2

The dummy. West knew exactly the trouble was. what

50 he stepped up with the ace of dia- monds and led analher club to permit his partner to overtuiŤ the dummy. The defenders thus got two hearts, a dhamund, and a trump lo defeat the contract.

As we have observed. South went wrong when he hastily be- gan on the cluba. After ruling The third round of hearts South should have led a diamond first In order to establish that trick while a club return was hamm- Lengt

West failed to take the ce of diamonds, dumuny would win with the quect and then South could go after the clubs accord- ing to plan. It West took the ace of diamonds. he could re- turn nothing that would bother South

A club return at Uus stage would find East still following and South could take the Atlt1,

rufa queer and ace of clubs. club with, dummy's queen of spades, and draw trumps with the king, ace and Jack. The rest of the clubs would then be good.

ME HENRY

Miss Phyllis Savage, the anne's general secretary, mid to "Blur of the university Buritics frowe on vacation work because they believe It has 42 detrimental effect on Murly.

And we agree with them, although the union Lice help students to And holiday jobs."

Well, ! tilak [ht thaeey holiday jobs

good thing.

B deck the student to harm tes

THE • WAY

by Beachcomber

DARLING 171 shire, where charge of Section 8 (D), telephoned Suet to Nily he wanted to look in for a wond with him

Up

What an uproar that causes now a schoolboy rises early to do " peper round! There are by-laws against it, if it were Lome kind of minor crime,

The poor boy will coane tired- eyed to schwol it he does such a thing the

the poor boy

will bo Just another vielm of child-

exploitation. the pocr boy with lag behind in his studita.

Oh, what normense! But the holiday-working students just as old as their brothers who are reckoned fit for military call-up are now dogged by this same Cutery.

WHAT A VIEW

a student cannot spare time earn money during 20 weeks' wacation without upsci- ting his studies there is a good caso for cutting down the Vications.

But the university authorities will certainly not accept that point of view. It is so much easier to adopt the feather-bed technique which asks the Gov- crumezit to do something about

La

What has been forgotten that education is not a closed- shop that lies only within the walls of a school or university.

pike just won't look at the belt." One angling club returned home without fa single Ash. Smellingham-Smith,| it. who lussos salmon at the weir with a bootlace, catches fish by main force, lashing the water to a foom, and hitting out right and left. No situng on the bank patiently for him. He leaps into the stream, shouting and grim- Greengage said, with inte a pante, and blunder about

ncing and kicking. The fish get¦

aimlessly, thus falling an easy

these prey

unorthodox methods.

Suet was very busy with .3 report. and did not look when somebody came into the "Sit down Darling," ho He heard a gasp of suc- prise, then the voice of Gtori

[ EXIT.

"Oh, Mr Suet! I never know you felt that way Atonal Suet turned crimson. His slight frame quivered. He sai bal upright, splattering. coughing, choking. Highly amused, Glorin gazed at him -1-er-is-you ste-when-cr-I'm expreting Mr Darling.

he wild. "Of course," sid Gloria, thoroughly enjoying the

"My mistake, sir? conuerly. "Surely," said Suet, "you coul! not think I would-er-nuke - vallees to you-er-in such terms."

Weil,

sid Gloria, "It did surprise me a bit. suil.

all, you never know with men, do you, Appalled, speechless,

Suet laid his forefinger along his upper Lip and breathed down his NOSU And when Darling came in, he wondered why his old friend called him Mister Darling so emphatically, Gloria smiled, and went out,

Marginal note

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Across

1. Nuire tect in an ouagistin, (D) They renge From champagne

ones to rough. (6)

10. They got carried along by the

Marie Jandle! (0)

11. It's that old deity again 3 (4)

【URING a discussion ou the Crazy Gang someone asked: "What is really the secret their success and

12. Rubbish (01 popularity?" The best answer was

tnis; the "They give the impression whole ume that they are enjoy- ing themselves as much as the audience. Their uproarious happiness is the sveret,"

V-CARD Sense Narkover news

able,

West

With neither side vulner- the bidding has been:

North East South

1 Dmd. Double 1 Spade

You, South, hold: Spades K- 10-4, Hearts 7-3, Diamonds Q-J-8. Clubs A-Q-10-4-3. What do you do?

ABid two no-trump or double. The jump to two no- trump is slightly botter because the long club sult will probably furnish five fast tricks an of fence, but may be worth very little for defence against spades or diamonds.

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the questioni just answered. You, South, bold: Spades 3-8-6- 4, Hearts 7-3, Diamonds Q-J-8- 5, Clubs K-Q-3. What do you 'do?

Answer on Monday

THE

in

THE Nurkover term has begun well. One of the history masters robbed four new boys, sons of rich parents, of all their money. He himself was kid- napped next day, lucked cellir, and held to ransom by A gang of prefects. He the ransom with the

money stolen from the new boys, who complained to the headmaster. Dr Smart-Allick recovered money from the prefects, went fifty-twenty with the tory master. A mother of one of the new boys complained, and was sent off to Barnstaple by a fake telephone call. There the mater rests at present. Send for Smellingham-

the and

Smith

COSMO SMELLINGHAM- SMITH, the famous angler, should be called in to investi- gate the situation in Stafford-

15. Altitudes get around a little.

(9)

30. Taxi! (3) 71. Everyone thinks of his own að

being a 25 ACTOSE (4)

42. Loos Hot Bay

What the

Americna soldier fa. .... 1243 23. Dumb one has no engine, (4) 34. This Robert E. was in the tod

bras lino. (3)

20. This actor gele a star 100. (4) 28. Shrub might be green after

this, (9)

27. Exchanges hlows, (8)

Down

1. Only one inakar pre

returned. (9)

(9)

8. This other" dng in praised by

Shakespeare." (4)

1. Do Underground scientists li them for experiments? (3-5)

5. Quite a lot of time. (3)

9. River hidden in a deplorable

skittish way. (3)

1. Regrets (4)

5. Thers is always a weight on this

oord, (4)

9. I come out of the 10 Down, and

get rearranged, (8)

10. Truly this parrots might be a

country bumpkin. (6)

11. Worship, (5) 10. Drops to form

memory. (M)

17. A kind of

20 Down. GE Dourod wrongly gong

& long WAY

for com

DOBET. (5)

18. Beo pennies

and shillinga.

(8)

20.

fitta

A

olidbood

fellow opens NY

the drink.

Yesterday's poduction

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