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This Funny World
"THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1958.
•JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
South Earns Top By Card Count
DJ OSWALD JACOBY
TERE is another match point
hund. South wanted a top
the
score and decided to play hond somewhat irregularly from the start.
He won the queen of spades with dummy's king and noted It East's play of the eight. looked like n singleton; not
Hence East come-on signal.
was likely to be long in monds.
1
dia-
The jack of diamonds was icd from dummy and allowed to ride. Now the four of hearts East played the was played.
with ten and South won
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the
WOMANSENSE
BACK EMPHASIS Four men who
catch a
woman's
eye
by EILEEN ASCROFT
luncheon
the rather
and confessed: meeting Yul
of
appeal... BX Maudling, the subject of I'll forever be his slave,” men cropped up. It usually
A with Macho Party; Deborah Kerr broke down after
Amanda Marshall and Beryl "Oodles.
BY
*Next?*
THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
N Indian bell-ringer in the the tittle rascal what he wants, Stoko Waveney team has hela in danger of becoming a climbed his rope and disappeur- teetotaler."
ed. A search in the belfry has revealed no trace of him.
woman
of
The call of duty
Sald Mr Lappater, champion HE appalling sacrifices which
bell-ringer
the are exacted from film stars, Midland Countles "We think in the interesis of publicity, that he will turn up again as were never better exemplined case of the Hitle even the Indian rope-trick doca than in the
dia- rosebud who was told that she complete guarantee appearance for ever." The must be photographed kissing vanished bell-ringer's little pon her husband (at si people!). has trained a worm in basket She said ongelly: "But I don't to uncoll itself to the strains of like him?"
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his flute, and
rear itself up
like a miniature sea-serpent, Printer's frolic
"Nostalgin for the sake
Secunderabad." commented rallway porter.
Diary for 1959
of
January 30: It was revealed last night, in a dynnunie speech. that the Government will answer Mr Bulganin's letter of July 3, 1957, an soon as has been considered in the light of all the potential contingencies
February 3: Labour Manifesto When in office the publishert. Socialists will encourage pro- duction, co-operation, and co- ordination.
Narkover news
A
SUPPLY of medicines for
the cupboard of the matron
of the various houses of Nark- over has arrived from a West
End wine merchant. The mutron and the school doctor agree that the boys need a stimulant in cold weather-ordinary tho smaller
the
table wines for boys, and the more expensivo red and white wines for the prefects. The story goes that a precocious new boy refused the vin ordinaire, and went on a drink strike. He said: "That rotgut is for those who are ill. I'm perfectly well, and need better
"Before such wine." irrefutable logic," commented Dr Smart-Allick "chool rules appear absurd. Unless we give
He has
London been in ordering a sulic of furniture for his country horse,
(Gossip column.) SHAM Jacobean four-poster bed in the stables is what every horse demands nowadays, with chairs and tables to match. His London horse probably has to be satised with cheap furni- I hope to be ture in an attic, Invited come week-end to the country when he gives a horse- party.
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YOUR BIRTHDAY
FRIDAY, MARCH 21
BORN on this first of the incoming
interests aria and
You
....BY STELLA
loving
kind and Jurve a sign, Arice, you are ruled by nature and are popular whoever Mars, the God of War, which you go. Fond of social conviviality, bespeaks grest Спетку and you may be somewhat inclined in
A You are dotion.
waste time on social frivolities, RECEIVE pioneer, a leader and a fighter for True, all work can make Jack a new causes. You have exceptional dull boy. But too much play om musical talent and may pioneer in be just as harmful some new area of expression. You
Exert
Be caution in marriage have the gift of the wisten wond
BOTTENUTE who and can also speak well in public. sure that you wed You will be happiest it you select a understands your artistic tempern- We work in a career of pro- ment or there can be notion in the
circle. You domestio
have the fession, for your greatest
enpocity for • doop and abiding Jovo.
Among those bors on this dale Your emotions are near the aur
were: Johann Sebatian Bach, com- face and you have a high temper.
producer: power: Elarent Ziegfeld anay call it artistle
Brodaky, vialinist: Joseph Adolph onomica your temperament—but |
Pulitzer, editor and publisher, and will call it tanper! The instant you
George Ward, theologian you ar "blown your top" have
that isn't always the worry, but solution. You may have done or Belt womething in a fit of anger that ia not cosy to retract. Hold your temper. Learn to count 10 before you give a quick answer,
le in the realm of the
ciences.
Your triede
AWES
A
To find what dhe, stare have in store for you KENOITOw, mefoot your birthday star and road the currED- Dunding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide. SATURDAY, MARCH 22
Be to start a now soject now. tactful in your approach to others.
(0) PISCER
20-Mar Don't try to set the world on fire #vor
today. Take time out for some
You have creation, 1) relaxing
earned la.
(MAT, 21-Apr. 207- If you were resourceful yesterday, then be furentul today and you will
advantage distinct win others.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Complete essential work enely that you will have time for health ful relaxation this afterDON.
1-June ORMINI Follow up gains made recently and exocllent. will be Relax socially this evening.
your program
CANCED (June 21-Jul *)- Postponed decidona may be recons ewed Rafely now. Once SOLIT mund te eary, plan social relaxation.
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(Ang. 24-8ept.
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Get a car start an necessary work. Then plans a social evening. Invite friends to your house.
fun!
(Dept 24-Oct.
Have
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There is romance in the air. Spring bringe added interests. Make special plane and enjoy yourself.
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CẤP LUM (heo thánh 202 "Take a fresh look at now prospoole, YOU KIDS.
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queen. South epshed the ace of diamonds and noted the bad news there. West discarded the three of clubs.
that
the
Was
The five of clubs was led and whon West played the six dummy's king won the trick. The next play was the eight of hearts frun dummy and East wes in with the jack. He led
diamonds the
of
and nine
Won the trick. dummy's ten South let a club go ол card and another club on which king of diamonds played next. Now South cashed
of dummy's ace
hearls Dad note that the suit broke,
Now all South had to do to to take make his contract was his ace of spades and nine of hearts but as stated before South was after a top score. He had decided early in the hand that East held only one spude. This meant that West had started with six. West Was
Biso marked with the ace of clubs and since he had played two small clubs, three hearts and a diamond West had to be down to that ace of clubs and spades only.
Jed In
The deuce of clubs wOA from dummy and West was with the are. He had to lead a South made spade whereupon both his ace and ten in addition to the heart.
Four no-trump was the top score that South wanted.
♥-CARD Sezseks.
Q-The bidding has been: Boath West
North Kazi Double Reubl 20
14
You, South, bold: JAKD745 V8 6K76 4165
What do you bid?
A-Three spades. You have nó interest la doubling hearis bui have great phying strength ai spades.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding Is as above bul you are North and hold: 40111 975 #8 JAQ 10 9 E West passes after your part- net's three-spade bid. What do you, North, do now?
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
The String On The Moon
-It Keeps It From Falling Out Of The Sky-
By MAX TRELL
"NARF, the Shadow Boy with
"Liko a balloon?" exclaimed Knarf in astonishment.
"Something like a balloon,"
Ke Turned-About Name, paid the Postman.
He
walked down the street. was half-way to the corner and half-way from his house, when he met the Pestron
feather
Thin And Fine
on
n-27
"Ile a though someone the Earth which is where we live and which we sometimes
The Postman had a pouch over his back. It was alled with letters which he was putting in letter boxes all along call the World-were holding on the street.
"Good morning, said Knarf
to the string. Or es if it were tied to a tree or a big rock. Only and too Postman," the string is too thin
fine to be seen, thinner and finer than a spiderweb,
"Good morning, Boy," said
Postman,
MOT
Ho's Very Smart
Postman was putting letters in the mail boxes,
does when more than two
women get together!
We had met to choose
the
SMALL BOY
LOUIS JOURDAN-~~The Lace Some five Women's Women of 1858, of the eternal email boy.
women like to mother a man. whom other women admire for brains, beauty, achievement or And this French film star is the one to arouse those maternal Instincts.
charm.
Then we began to ponder on the kind of men women admire most and why.
You'd probably have to solve most of the practical problema After a considerable amount for him, but it could be worth it. of research among co-operative He'd keep you young and very giri friendh. I find these mascu- much alive. line examples are the four types
of mon that women most ad- mire today.
SECURITY
To meet, he's tall, courteona and cultured, and complains genuinely, with troubled, dark brown eyes, about his tag-line; "Handsomest Frenchman alive."
One woman who enjoya JOHN SANGSTER-I choose mothering Louis is his elegant the millionaire boss of BSA for Frerich wife, Quique (short for Bho forranges the man of achievement. That Frederique),, strong face promises protection French atmosphere and food for and security, too.
him, whether it is in their Holly- their New York wood house,
The sort of masculine man apartment or a rented house in who'd rise to all emergencies London.
and solve your problems; with-
out bothering you with his own. "I reckon I spend about one- The ideal type to sco one third of my life looking for through a shipwreck or a train staff," she says, "then teaching crash.
them to cook for Lauls."
looks
Have these four anything in He's olim and dapper, nowhere near his 61 years. He common? They have, and in one and that has the glit of silence. He drives word it in-appeal, good care; understands wine, takes as many forms as there and travels widely and in style are men.
Life with a man ilke
this
would be comfortable and se- cure
but most of all varled
and Interesting.
NEVER DULL
bo
41-
YEHUDI MENUHIN. Here is the man with charm. The dreamy face of the genius, tem-
enough peramental Interesting. Life with this
year-old musician might spell a saga of emotional beights and depths: But it could never be dull.
From personal acquaintance 1 know what a delightful com- panion he can be, amusing and tremendously interested in other a very people. His could be sympathetic shoulder for a good cryl
Other qualities I adanire aro
How
To
Eat
Like
Churchill
WI
WITH
the report of Bir Winston Churchill's ill-
his love, of the sea, his passion ness came the news that he for old and comfortable clothes would reluctantly have to give He up visiting the Ettle restaurants and his practice of Yoga.
spenda one hour a day in silent round the Riviera coast where contemplation. Just think what they
cooked 10% him the
A Provencal dishes he loves,
a blessing that could bel whole hour a day, uninterrupt- ed by chores.
DANGEROUS
Ал
special favourite, went the report, was a dish of hot
Cayenn lobster seasoned with
cooked in and brandy, and
cream.
For those who (like Bir YUL BRYNNER. Tho
gave sex Winston) have a taste for the American actor who appeal to bald heads spells dan-rich dahes of Southern France, gerous fascination. exelt- we publish a couple of roddpen bot lobster and frlodi ing companion for a tete-a-tete for
chicken. "It never will! It's as fine and dinner, if not for life. delicate as a spider's web, but it
You might sometimes have
They are not cheap, but A is stronger than all the fron
ever doubts about his single-minded-British cook can make her own chains that anyone could
that is holding the moon is put in letter box down the other and a gipsay mother, Yul recipe 150 a cut
said that made Valentino a legend in for two people.
als time. A subtle combination of brain and salmal magnetizm.
*
"This 'gring" that no one can see has a strange mme.?
"I'd like to know the name."
ness, but you would have fun modifications, use tinned or
• make, said Knart to the Postman.
frozen scampi or crayfish, or "Well, goodbye, boy," said the worrying and wondering. "You're a very
smart man, The Postman dropped some
the he turned Postman, as
Forty-three years old, six feet fresh prawns in place of fresh chicken and for the lobster, box. Then he aren't you?" Knart sald to the more letters in
tall, the son of a Mongolian
of frozen Postman.
zaid: "The name of this string corner, I have more letters to
chicken which costs about ba next street.'
has the same ruthless charm "Sometimes I am," said Post- Gravity. Don't forget, no one
"and sometimes I'm not.
but it's ca: 820 this string
"Goodbye, Postman," There are some things I know there just the same
and the
Knat and lots of things I don't know; moon is at the other end. But is there something you'd
And a Knart walked back to like to ask me about?”
"Sometimes the moon directly overhead, sometimes it his house, he kept thinking of amazing tring" called "Yes," sold Kart to the Post- is low in the sky, sometimes it the man, "I'd like to ask you about seems to be sailing through the Gravity that kept the moon In the sky. He wondered if the the stare also had sun and
to strings
them, and that won also the "Suppose the string should whether
reason why they stayed in the man, as he put some letters in breaks pald Knarf. one of the latter boxes. "Now
The Postman shook to bead. sky. what is it you'd like to know about the moon? We can talk while I walk down this street, putting letters in letter boxes."
the moon,"
"That might be one
clouds. But no matter where is, it is always in the sky." of the
things I know about," said Post-
It Doorn't Fall
"What ra uke to know about the moon," said Kantf, "is why does it stay in the sky? Why docmy't it fall down?"
"Ah," mid the Portman, Just Is that one of the let ne seo. things I know? Or one of the many things I don't know?”? ...;
Thy: Postmas. thought for a endnure or two as they continued down the street.
Prosently, te exclaimed: "Yes, I do know why- tho'
cocon stays up in the sky."
"Why?" asked Knaf.
"Because," sold the Postman, "the moors la tíað tú, á, long
ja
Rupert and the Lost List-39
Household
Hints
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LOBSTER IN CELAM: Silco the ment of a cooked lobster and put it in a saucepan 'with two tablespoons melted butter Ada and a pinch of cayenne, one tablespoon warmed brandy and igalte. Simmer the lobster in this for 10 minutes.
Remove the lobster, koep; it hot, add three-quarters double cream to that juices i the pan and simmer, stirring for three minutes. Pour the sauce over the lobster and servD,
BEILLET-FRIED CHICKEN: Cook the chlegen - guatly; in three. tablespoons od Butter, When two or more tumblers with salt and pepper, in a beooma stuck together, pour
mucepan, turning! It
covetedi
cold water into the top one and stand the bottom one in warm often. When it is almost done, whlic part of a pek waler. The bottom one will add the
they can bend an onion, both alleed, When these are cooked, put as to the chichon on to a hội nh
expand separated.
so that
Ropart clambers round until bexcept for some very good passon." in condy anttled behind Sanza Clang. We will go to him. You are a very and be hurriedly tells the story of brave little bear to do an much for his adventure and the reason why him." Turning rapidly be baada Golly could not faith his works Bug Nutwood, and though he enters **30 the "geinciner ate his Mat Pier rap fog he knows hut where he le
then: all * 1 golog and does not need to alacion chuckles the old, peatlemani kaaw Golly redada'wii alla me „apped.
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