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Who Is To Blame For This Pickle?

By OSWALD JACOBY

"PLEASE selle nn Argument for us," writes a California bridge fan.

"Who is to blame for the pickle we got into in the nccompanying hand?

the In double of four spades clearly and unmistakably for business, Or is it at least partly for takeout?"

"When the hand came along, South maintained that North couldn't possibly have very good trump tricks in the position under Enst. He decided that North was bound to have most of his strength in the other suits, in which case the double was much for takeout as Ior penalties.

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"When South bid five dia- monds, West doubled crisply. Everybody parsed, and West led the nee of hearts and continued with a low heart for his partner to ruff. East returned the ace

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1955.

TARGET

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More fan IND In a ke Irons to letter if Live Rauure 1 the felt in taking each word, the Fettern, in

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eda ona nine-letter word in the list. No

no foreig

names. to proper TARGET: 23 wurde, 3:1 2000; 28 words, very good words excellent, Solution on Monday.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION: .Effort

MR VALENTINE

IS WORRIED

NEW RECORDS by FRANCIS MARTIN

London.

neat, smiling and

Hawathy in light blue

suit and black bow tie, At 25 there is a trace of the still about ex- felt fater floe flag flaret flour flout pageboy flue furse fute ford forel forge forget FORGETFUL, fort, forte four four pagehoy Dickie Valentine, fret fratful freg fuel fugte furt pafer Through the hand-mike he

uolier uruf quif left fost fofter tud oper prie rest Tug Tule WODA, wine and bemuses trugte tup turf.

variety audiences with slick confidence, smugness almost. I'm certain that 10 years

to their stalls at the Pal- Indium with the same smooth zeal.

CHESS PROBLEM aro he was showing people

By J. J. RIETVELD Black, 10 pieces

White, 3 pieces. White to play: mate in three.

to Solution

yesterday's

1, R-B3, any; 2, Q mates.

| problem:

NORTIL AJ9873

17

K3

K04

4AQ3

EAST (D) AAKQ100542

WEST

▲ None

♥AQD765

AD07

10 J

J86

1092

SOUTH

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◆ 100532

K754

Both sides vul.

South-West North Pass Past Double

Double Pas9

East

44

Pass

5+

Pass Pass

Opening lead-♥ A

of spades, South

BY

by

Valentine loves talking. about his pageboy days. They are his mileometer; show how far he has come.

THE VALENTINES

When i married

my fan- club membership went up.

"At the Palladium," he Mum. Rest I spent on the remembers. "I wore a stiff picturos. Picture-mad I was. collar, gold-braided trousers Once in Manchester-my

Dad was

a lorry driver and a short jacket with 50

war I much gold cord and tassell- there during the

one ing on the shoulder that it went three times in made you

walk lopsided. day. Fearful headache I They paid me thirty-five got," bob a week. Tips were on top of that as much as £2. in a good week.

Forward again to 1955.

Through the hand-mike: gave Valentine says he's going

some of my earnings to to sing a thing called "If

THE WAY Beachcomber

the such a fuss about, was found, AM glad to read that

people of Montmartre have not on the vicarage steps, but

the deelden to preserve

old outside the iron-monger's. They Moulin de Galette,

had contained nothing more more

Not much

than when the hundred years ago, fashionable Pare Monceau dis trict was agricultural land, this mill was still working. But beenme better, known 35 the scene of open-alr dancing Sundays, and Renoir's famous picture in the Louvre caught for ever the colour and galety of those occasions. The inore

among my renders

may

on

rufted, and ber the controversy when

West over:uffed. West now led the ace and a low diamond,

down lost

i

"South tried to hold if to three, but he eventually heart and a trump to West, for a penally of 1,100 points. By this time, of course,

this pleture was first exhibited. Who

was the small boy in the far left-hand corner?

Berthe was Carco. Morisot said

was Suzanne Valadon said it

revealed Dorgeles. Vauxcelles

It

it was clear that East would the truth in the Matin: "C'est have been set one or two tricks

le petit Morton."

DEAR SIR,

at four spades, depending on Braces found in' tea-urn how

accurately we defended. The bid of Ave diamonds thus cost uy either 1,300 or 1,600 points.

alcoholle than Sniboola.

Yrs faithfully

Ernestine Flipp.

Entry form

I

Restricted

Unrestricted

Both

Nelther

When?

Where?

Who?

Why?

You Should Feel Two Arms Enfold You," Gratified moans from girls in the balcony. He hands n white carnation to a young thing in the front atalia.. Gratified yelps.

At, the finish he goes down on one knee and bows his head before the frenzy of applause. Gratified squeals.

me.

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Those balcony girls worry

They sound like Social Problem. Not to worry at all, says Valentine, washing off the grease

paint: it's just their way

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He says that of 600 fan-mail "MEINAM" letters weekly many are

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ton from his jacket. "Just can't HONG do it," he shrugs. "If I sent a lock of hair do one girl she'd Trouble ahead

tell her workmates, and they'd READ that electronle brains all write in. Give hair to one will I see no reason why the

soon be doing such and it's murder for the rest."

and ac- of a gasworks at cffice jobs as filing floodlighting

I hear of a 17-year-old girl, Smogeartity ahould be either counting. If these little nerves

£5-wage-camer who manages to "Should North pass instead of a dreary bread-and-milk affair replace human beings

to this

Valentine most doubling four spades? If North or a bohemian oran. There is extent, even the more impor- hear

When our lant jobs does double, should South bid a happy mcilium.

will come within when he is singing within

er 150-mile radius of her home. She or pass?"

new Ask-centre was opened by their reach, Imagine the anger

the only of the head of a department spends all her money on admis- sion, tarea and occasional The double was clearly meant a visiting novelist,

when the electronic brain, which

overnight more it untoward incident was the find wh What's

lodgings: sold perfectly reasonable ing of a buker's braces in one is supposed to be fling letters, childhood toys, among them

of the tra-urnE, hile Coun- picks up

telephone double. If North wanted a take-ur Trundle was singing, "I'm sacks the wrong man, Imaginn sleek doll's prom

Tollemache, the

Heavy Dra- again, the surprise and distaste end,

impromptu of a business" man who calls

After the show she waits at South was right in assuming on." in the

Village Hall by appointment at an office, is the stage door for Valentine to that his partner had ample waltzes

and finds himself sign newly led pages in her" strength

In the side sults, but gave the thing & social air, and shown in,

on electronic Valentine news clip book. By that

this the "row

of empty bottles," confronted by

made brain. the newspapers

this time, he has signed most of the pages twice.

for businest, Was R

out he would bid four no-trump instead of doubling.

It assuming

eth would

be enough to which

a contract for eleven

tricks opposite South's able hand. South would

miser- take

the double out with a very good long auit of his own, but other- wise was expected to pass and necept a penalty,

♥+CARD Seriseks

Q-The bidding has been: South West North East I Heart PASE 2 Clubs Pass 2 Spades Pass

2 Hearts

Pass

You, South, hold:

47 VAQJTAZ #AJ104 482

What do you do?

A=Bld three diamonds. You avoid bidding no-trump with this unbalanced distribution, Narth now goes to no-trump, you wilt pass. It North can show support for hearts, however, you will bid game in hearts,

TODAY'S QUESTION

The bidding is the same ae in the question just answered. You, South, hold;

AFT MAQJ74 OKJ94 402

What do you do?

Answer, on Monday

H

Later,

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2. It may ba

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(Solution Page 20)

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Wood to Indicato *. 03. This may swamp you you're ahost. COMING If you're on the water

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house is often one you. don's want to be

thour (8)

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11. Teres mixed up after

the winning

(10)

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"No sex In all this. It's sure- thing different, deeper," soy Valentine's entourage. If it were Just sex, argues Valentine him- self, there would have been a falling off in his teenage fol- lowing when he married ex-Ice last skater Elizabeth Flynn October. "Everybody vald there'd be a drop. What happen- od? My fan-club membership want up from 800 to 3,000, Yes, 3,000. Some people doubt that figure. But it's true."

Into variety

Valentine's newest 10in. 78г. "No such Luck

(Decea F10549), backed by "Engage- ment Waltz, sold 30,000, he claims, within a fortnight, "be- fore there'd been time for prac- tically any broadcasts of it. Thanks to my variety work have a ready-made audience. When I went into variety firs! all, I hadn't hit records at American singers make one hit record and come over here to cash in. With me it happened the other way round.

I had boon in verloty over a year be fore I made "Finger of Suspi- clon." Since Christmas that dise has sold over 300,000,"

About meney Valentine talks or doesn't talk according to the whim or policy of the moment. He has been known Ко bpost that betworm June 1954 and June this year his earnings rosë from £50 to £000 a week. His line at the moment: "When out there singing I try to make the -public feel we're all one. Follow with his girl up in the gallery a fellow earning £s a wook, lat

u may, how can I be like him, how can he teal ho's like me 1, I go armmd saying I get £10,- 000 a week!"

Underneath the pert, pageboy confidence is one gnaw, Doctors found him, a stone and a half overweight recently, Dietitiazan advised Romeo so go on beneDOS and aldim rallie three boFLOWOLI- dive days a weekang "I'm: roma to try it," said Valentine, He spoke bravac, *. But, hig'ayer were 2OOLE DI (worry

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