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JACOBY ON BRIDGE

Tourney Comes Up With Sharp Play

11

By OSWALD JACOBY

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WORD KAM

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four Letters RALI

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from the letters in the SQUATT

On the MEDE T

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solution tomorrow.

ANOTHER HIT BY GEORGIA GIBBS

ISS Georgia Gibbs, who rhythm, but also has rock and

M's

pace for girt singers with her Tweedle Dee," now has another hit that should please the young rock-and-

roll crowd.

It's called "Dance with freight FREIGHTER frier fright Me, Henry" and it has

WHEN today's hand was

ed last year in the championship match at

play-

world Monte

YESTERDAY'S SULUTION: Eight either fight fghter fire free firth

got to six.diamonds by means of the bidding shown in the diagram. The slain was a pre- carious contract, and the bid- ding cannot therefore be recom. mended, but the play had one or two points of interest.

right rite their thier tier tiger tire

trier rig.

CHESS PROBLEM

By M. BENOIT Black, 9 pieces.

17

"

roll in the lyrics, a blesse

Jazz Gem: Latin American Dixieland," four standards by Panama Francis and his Dixie Don Juans (M«G»M). Includes "Beale Street Blues," "Panama,"

Feet" More Dixie than Latin

Dead End Blues" and "Fidgety

impiques

It features the

A new Epic 12-inch album, Carlo, the American declarer Frith gift gire girth grief prti heifer plenty of "bounce. But the Lester Leaps In," bririas back right rize their thief ties tiger tire flipover of this Mercury the music of Count Basie and

wafer is Georgia at her best his orchestra. with a ringy interpretation or san of Lester Young on all of that old jazz classic, Bye Bate" and "19th St.

12 numbers, including "Ro

'Ballin' the Jack."

+) Mambe of the Month: "Let's Another top single from Mambo," 12-mambos played on

"The his Orchestra

a Decca LP by Sonny Burke and Mercury combines

Most amazing Crazy Otto Pag" with a sumber- "Walter Winchell medley of "Nobody's Sweet- heart" and "Somebody Stole My Gal" This is real beer-hall piano music produced by Hugo and Luigi, with the Hoffbrau

Before we abandon the bid- ding, let's see where it went bid sour. South should have

only two no-trump at his second turn. Such a jump rebid in no trump shows balanced distribu- tion, stoppers in the unbid suits, and a count of 19 to 21 points. This would have been a perfect description of the South hand

*

When South actually bid three no-trump, he showed hand that was too good for * bid of two no-trump. Hence he

should

have held at least

22

A singers.

White, 9 picces, White to play: mate in two,

Solution to yesterday's problem:

оп

Mambo"

Best historical albumi

the

of the the second.

A

Desca

North and Southg 12-inch. contains 36 soldier songs of the Blue and the are handled sym- Gray which pathetically by Frank Luther and Zora Layman..

Hillbilly Davy Crockett

"The Ballad of from the Dis- Tech-age turn-table: The neyland TV show. Four new

recorded versions are offered Fish, already high on its way by Burl Ives (Decca), Tennessee to the top among rhythm and Ernie Ford (Capitol), 'The Voices blues tunes, owes much of its of Walter Schumann and Sons Popularity to Mindy Carson's

fine vocalising on the Columbia of the Pioneers (RCA-Victer). label. It is an excellent ar- rangement, with a male chorus and a steady rhythmic beat in

points, or at worst he might, R-Q1, dhy; 2. Q. R. or Kt the background. "The Fish" not have held an exceptionally at- mates.

· tractive 21-point hand. Give

South about three extra points,

and the slam isn't at all 17- reasonable.

West opened the six of spades against the actual contract of six diamonds. This strange choice was made on the theory that it was more important to

NORTH (D) AJ

20

AJ 10 B2 +9782

K35

WEST

EAST

486432

KI

DAB

974

SOUTH

097

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AQS

+KQ 183

AQ3

North-South vul.

North East Pass

1

Pass

South West 14

Pass

Pass 3 N.T

Pas

Pass

Pass

Pass

Opening lexdm l

keep declarer in the dark as to

only

has true rock-and-roll

BY THE. WAY.

by Beachcomber

COME recent praise of

was

WILLIAM D. LAFFLER

New York's

Black Belt

(Continued from Page 3)

party at, say, 23 cents a head.

It is only necessary to engage a

planist and to throw the house

the a

Greek a Landseer, two chandeliers, a

cur

and fro, Jacabean wardrobe.

ive one it will not be long before sensitive nostrils to and

refused to all suitable rooms are chock-a- like the old fellow in. Drum four-poster beds, keerin who used to keep time make a statement. He escaped block with dancing couples.

lett entirely to a police-sergeant while in that way to the melodeon.

Party clerk

the who had, the spiritual guidance of 1 arresting a Unless you are Greek.

called him a great planist, for the host is extreme- think it is difficult to like their apparently,

selling fat bag of lard..

ly busy the Kephesia

bottles of wine--even

which

synthetic gin to his guests. The music-maker needs to be seme-

I drank in a tavem outside

Ahm or the robly-named Bacchus I had in Mitylene.. believe it came from Santorin of the Cyclades (where the bicycle

was invented).

Chics produces a wine called Homer's Nestar tre gols and goddesses!). and a raki or

brandy" which the rotgut which the French workmen call schrick. There used to be wine in France, but bet 132,000 litres of Cyprus Liebfraumilch that It the Was made at Cette, paradise of faked and adulter- ated wines.

is a frightful

Sipan

In the bar

A

•

Ta corner table Sir Harry was busy making

cards in

far

the distribution than to give tiny marks on a pack of cards. accurate information to the "Never mark your other defender.

public," said Foulenough, with benign smile. "It's only didn't make any differefice in this band, and the whole patience," replied Thirst question is open to debate. It's you mean to say you cheat even hard to know when it's impor-yourself?" asked the Captain. good practice," said

סבי

CROSSWORD...

Across

1. As steady as this is an old 407-

Ing. (9)

B. Merryman, monipɛ mum, bad a

ksd one. (4)

D. This strikes fearfully. (3)

11. The

though, 1 may be in a.few part. 12. scarlet in the garden. [6]

13. Before part of the beret. (3)

14. With ground after it, this makeR

a London feature. (5)

What a 18 Down does. [5]

tant to inform your partner and Thirst. "And, myhow, it keeps 1 Start this was to make a latti when it's more important to misinform the enemy.

of

East played the king spades, and Don Oakie, the San Francisco expert, won the Arst trick with the ace

Glamoursession

in Technicolour ANGRY demands that the

debates of spades; should

in the Commons- be televised "because Oakie next got to dummy with

we are a democracy"(carry the king of clubs and led a low

in a little basket!)-

trump. East naturally played me cut acc- Eui low, and Oakie put up the king

of diamonds.

West took the trick with the ace

and Oakic of diamonds,

He had to needed, the rest. finesse through West for the king cf hearts and then he finessed through East for Ine jack of diamonds. Both finesses succeeded, sa Cakie made Glam.

pon. (4)

1. Part of your faith. 137"

22. Too far to make a hover race.

(8)

24. This light was a sky feature not

30 long ago. (8)

26. This alter colour, (3) 20. Add b

spot

to make a Devo...

Down

19)

2. Haɑ the kangaroo stopped_short

of bis zal distance ? (9)

H. Streamiot, (6)

4. Tree for a man an the city

council? (3)"

a. Play back the reel? (4)

8. Winter's one wa Shakespes: 0. (4)

7. Knowledgeable. 15)

tola

M

8. This is very small change to a

Frenchman. (3)

1. TalkAKITË, the stricken cry of those who are tortured by dull programmes. The next demand will be for a "quizmaste to preside over a banet which will intervent a+ question lime. Then will come requests for a few musical numbers and A dance or two during uninterest- ing debates. And, of course,

commentary: "Here's running Tony Gogglewick, Labour Nether Fimbleton, He's going West made a bad play, in my

to ask

the Home Secretary opinion, when he took the first whether his attention has been trump trick with his ace. It called to the interior quality of he had played his low trump ball-bearings in roller-skates. without hesitation, declarer. Give him a hand, viewers! would naturally assume that Tee-hee-hee-hee. Ha-ha. East had the ace of diamonds. | “O cackoo, South would get back to dum-

his

my to lead another trump, and

he would probably put up the

#queen

shall I call thee bird?"

A VENTRILOQUIST at Brid

of diamonds on the port who landed a silent

second trick,

West would win milkman

at an auton

with

with the acc, and East would three gato-Jeg tables, Stack- trick house's "Flatory of the Bible,"

then get another trump

with the jack.

'.

CARD Senses♦

The bidding has been:

East South North

-West

1 Club Pass 1 Diamond Pass

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A-Bid five clubs. There should be a very reasonable play for game even if North has a minimum opening bid. I North

has two or three aces as part of his strength, he can even také -z-shot÷nt: six-clubs,

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same in the question just answered. You, South, hold: Spade 8, Heart 7 Diamonds A-€80

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