1961-04-22 — Page 12

JACOBY BRIDGE

NE good time to gamble a grand slam bid is when you can count 13 running.tricka in- ehuling all four nees (naturally, you need them) and three of the kingo.

In that case a bonus of one hand queen in your partner's

will give you your 13th trick and if you don't get that bonus thore will surely be some pos- Ribility of a finesse, squeeze or defensive artor to bring home the grand slam.

South's seven no-trump bid was in line with this theory Seven clubs would probably have been a sounder contract, but the game was duplicate and South wanted the extra points for Beven no-trump (honours don't count in duplicate).

After West opened the

Jack

of hearts and dummy hit the table, South wished that he had

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1961.

BY

Only The GingER-BREAD was a real good)

Ditch-Digger, far in The distante.

JACKY Mendelsofin Runner, & fritty soon he had, faft the

ase 331/2

JACKY'S DIARY SKY!

The Story of THE Ginger BREAD

Man continued from last

fLife i said, The Ginger Bread Man was being chased [by this Ditch-DisGer who wanted to eat Him up,

(NYA, NYA.

You

CANT catch ME

week...

been more conservative, there was no use regreting.

His rot thought wus to play buil dummy's deuce of hearts,

bu!

So then THE BEAR started

GRR.

It seemed really unlikely that I

into

chail

him.

GRR

puff.

PUFE

finely the Ginger Bread Man

HAHA

The necks Person he met was a

BEAR Who said:

Oh Boy, A GINGER-BREAD

And ami

meta Fox who was sitting in the

road, he started into Boast:

li out~Ram A OLD

only The Fox made! out like he could'nt

Hear so goods.

COME CLOSER, I CAN'T HEAR

·You!]

‚© 1931, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved, 3-19

SAid I out- RAN a OLD | LADY--

But before he could, finish

boasting. The Fox grabbed him of

Gobbled him y

Up!

THE END.

Whee

Lady, a Little Boy,

A Ditch Digger

BEAR

NORTH (D)

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WEST

EAST

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SOUTH

A 15

20

• AK

AKQJ1092

Both vulnerable

North East Bouth

1 A

PASA

West YAMA

FOR A CHECK

3+

Posa

4 N.T.

Pan

5

Poss

SN.T.

Pass

04

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N.T.

Pasa

Pasa

Pask

Opening lead-♥ J

POST DROP

West would have led away fren a king to South Tryse with dummy's ace of hearts.

only. He Couldn't catch him Neither

OF BLOOD

Then he cashed his ace and king of diamonds and when East showed out South felt certain that there was an auto-TWO

matic squeeze situation.

He simply ran off his seven clubs. On the last club West had to discard a spade in order to hang on to the queen of diamondst South let dummy's last diamond go and now East

also in had to let a rpade go

order to keep the king of hearts. This made ore of dum- my's small spades good for the Anol trick.

VECARD Serdek

Q-The bidding has been: North East South Weat

Pass 14 Надз Pass

JA

You, South, hold:

AKJBG5 K32 +A854 40

What do you do?

A-Bld four no-trump. If your Dartner shows iwo aces you will gamble this hand out at al spades.

TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner blda five spades to show three aces. What do you do now?

Answer on Monday

TARGET

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POT

SOP

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from thr letter fu the square on the left?

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the wortia. спел letter may be used

once only. Each word must con 1410 the worze jester, and there fund be at Jetset une tellietter word to the fist. No plurals = au words na prùper maineN, 4 words, good: 65 ~ words, "very pood!

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114 words. excellent Solution On Monday.

YESTERDAY'S

SOLUTION:

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London Express Berpice.

And i

CAT

out-

RAN

You

too!

SATURDAY

MUSIC may well be

the food of love,

as suggested by W. London doctors Shakespeare. or it may have discovered * equally well be the method of detecting diabetes,

brandy of the damned. the "sugory blood" disease, by post.

as postulated by that other well known lyric- ist, Geo. B. Shaw.

A patient needs only. to prick

finger, collect a drop

↑

blond on a Alter paper, and mail it to the laboratory.

The new technique will erst be used to keep 24-hour checks on some of Brilain's 250,000

known diabelles, who would

Whatever music is, it has been amply de- monstrated to Jak and me that there is no per-

And 1 diflent to attend a centage in it for us. We doctor's surgery several times a doy.

Birt

'Hidden victims'

are not with it, so to speak.

However, nobody can say wo did not try. And full marks in Jak for thinking up on den

life

it could be extended to which, on the face of it, seemed locate some of the 250.000} bright enough lo ensure "hidden victims," who are of comparative indolencs for One should never walking around dangerously both of us.

have the discourage ambition, or be in- unaware that they disease.

tolerant ΟΙ enterprise, nven when these commendable quali- Scientists can tell within hair ties ore revealed in Aub-

an hour exactly how much human half-wit

sugar is present in the tiny How to give

patch of dried blond. They use a simple chemical test.

The doctors-Robert Knight and Harry Green, of Guy's Hospital experimented on themselves with glucose injec- tions before trying it with actual diabeties.

Π

up work..?

After all, ir Jak thinks he we both may give up works, who has hit upon a method whereby

am I to throw cold water on the poor clot's brain child?

Briefly. my colleague's notion

Dr Knight said: "This should was that other Jerks could

be particularly usett in cases ride

in Jaguars for writing

where a doctor wants to knowingles, why not

un? Rodgers

if a diabetic's blood-sugar and Hammerstein? Lerner and level rises at different times of Loewe? What's wrong with

the day. But we are not yet Jak and George?

Fooinole.-AL ņ mecting of

diabetic research workers in London, Professor

"Now take Paddy Roberts. ready to use it on a wide "Take Tolchard Evans" sald. He's a lawyer, and he used to scale."

Jak. "There's a man who used be deck hand and a pilot and the piano with Billy several other things that moant In play Cotton und Sidney Lipton work, But the boy has it, man for 129. Od. a night 15s, if he really has 11. Way back. h พ. J. the customers demanded boiled ups with this oldie opus called H. Butterfield, of Guy's said shirts. So what does he do? He Horsey, Horsey and since then that research was "keeping rips off Lady of Spain about 30 pace with this serious national years ago and he's still raking problem."

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he's definitely with the mujaid, Softly, Softly, and Lay Down

Your Arms, and all sorts. Top Ten every Ume.

"So why not us? You write 'em, I'll sing em Tin F Alley is wide open."

Whereupon we went to Tin Pan Alley, otherwise Denmark- street, W.C.2 .. just 125 paces of pavement from Charing Cross-

road....where Tyburn vict

The MORAL

of this Story is:

You mustint INtirrupt when other People are talking!

MAGAZINE

JAK and GEORGE try to cash in

Fenery

Pers

TALES

CLORE

HOU

on Tin Pan Alley

ITCH SINGS!

Warning: if you don't fancy slavery or

starvation, keep out!

tims used to halt for their last now I've not found one that devised Lorie Mann's monicker Mozari bowl of ate at the White Lion was good enough to publish. from the label on a brewer's Milch Mozarti ...where St Gilles-in-the Fields Even with the professionals, I dray? Nobody but Mr Ferrin. churchyard-comforts the bones would put the chances ili

of the cavaller who hid Charles success at no more than one in

II in the oak tree

where a hundred.

Hansard, Shelley and Garrick used to gossip

and where

Mr David Platz told us to get lost,

Only six in

"For your information, gentle- men, there are only

six full- time professional cong-writers making what you might call big money in Britain.

A challenge for

I

the starmaker

the big money have met you. Good morning," briskly round his three wall-

that's it Mozart lens ofileer, and a: good

lawyer."

"What about บ voice?" I "Mitch the Itch The all naked, and I could hardly have English by they'll all want to mentioned a dirtier word kles. How's. · that?" demanded Personally. I thought Jake did Mr Perrin..

rather. well as he poured forth "First, we'll need to get rid profuse atrains of umpreme of that Italian left-over look. ditated art in a number called Do away with that stubble he April's Fool, written, especially calls hair. Cap hin teeth, hide for us, and the occasion by a Starmaker Perrin, a jovial his face behind a pair of oblong nice man named Eddle in the "Do you firicy slavery, or ball of a man in a floppy bow glasses, the thicker the better. While Lion. starvation? No? Well, it's nice to the and morenta braces, bounced This boy's gotta be personalized. Lealie Perrin Associates Ltd, "Go Bee good tailor. His were visibly affected, However, Upstairs on the third, floor, пmpers (depicting the Porta celotires have to say something, the emotion I took to be genuino At 31, the brisk, immaculate by which time the marble-type boulevards, a load of bricks, Get him a couplo ́of shiny sultë, admigation has turned out to and forthright Mr Platz is one floor covering had petered out and a thick fog) and said that Shouldn't cost more than £40 be nothing more than sheer Tin of Britain's top music pubil into cement, we met a rather the idea of turning Jak into a eich, Tapered trousers, all that Pan Alley jealouny. A formal shers, four-times winner of the more encouraging response from persmallly of stage, screen and stuff. And a thin the with verti- postcard next morning informad Ivor Novello award, and never Mr Leille Perrin, one of whom radio represented a real chat- cal stripes. Dior does 'em for us that the Mitch the-flch_job. wrote a song in his B, Moru- neveral moldsions in life Is turi lengo,

· 50%. Then he'll woat' fan pic- had been given to ANOVAKOV over, he advised us to do like ing lung-power into crowd- "What's its name?" he asked, "tures,' say a thousand. at six- worker from Splenica, wise.

appeal One inagle touch of the 'surveying_the_property.

pence a time plus a few.ensin efull of mustos) old enfraprençur from Mr Por

***Jak," "I mată, s-

largements, The rest he ena amaicary," quoted Mr. P. be- rin, and your teenage tool is "No good. Not commercial seo to later. Swoon conversations on his two ready for worslits.

onough, Been used, before," "For about £200 we should red Telephones,

Who turned Terence Parsons sold Me 2'.

be able to set - Jak, IM "Amateurs have been menting Into Matt Monro Who gave you "With that face he needs Mitch, a fiying afari, All ha'li me as many as 30 songs a week Wee Willie "itarris, Tommy something classical. Let me se, need then in an agent, a pers

Handel, for the last 10 years, and up to Bruce and 'Terry Dome, Who

Mendelssohn, Moust maaasger, a public plas

George

Whiting

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