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Culbertson system the trap at this point by doubling North is helpless-two stresses a point that was merely two hearts.

spades would be no great improve- generalised in the old system.

ment, and North can scarcely at- Suppose you hold:

tempt a rescue in diamonds with a four-card suit headed by the jack.

Nor is South in any better posi- may to rescue himself. He You are the dealer. You bid one tion. heart and partner responds one suspect that a desperation bid of spade. (The opponents do not bid.) three diamonds might "hit" North, Now it is up to you to rebid-re- but it is a sheer guess, and South is

you must respond to your apt to let bad enough alone.

But whether or not South makes guess, it is easy to see that Two hewhat red do you make move anything resembling selence in lols of company in such a choice ding has been lost by. the wayside. but the wrong kind of company! South missed his one and only op-

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rather than only correct rebid is two dia- portunity to find Your Trands.

guess. He should have bid two dia- Don't be misled by the superiority monds, not two hearts, on the second West might decide to of your heart sult, or by the fact round. True

at a two diamond that it is a major, or by the much "take more prevalent, and deadly, notion bid, also, but there would be less that you have no right to "change chance of this, and in any case, two sully with a near-minimum hand, diamonds could never be slaugh- Any and all such considerations are tered as two hearts can be, and are. than fallacious-they are The point is that South has noth- worse dangerous! Let's take look at the ing to lose by selecting a two dia- North prefers rebld. It mont following hand:

so without in- hearts, he can say

bidding level. Mean- ereasing the while, South has provided two possi- ble "unding spots." Instead of only

.South denter.

Rubber bridge.

North-South vulnerable.

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a bombed power station in the mountains, 1 Guadarrama

first saw the then tired face of the German Communist, Hans Kahle, who is now working for the British Admiralty-on devices that may, even do, save the lives of British sub- marine crews.

From that night, when Franco's Moors had reached, were battering, the then weakly held gates of Madrid, until recently, when we met in a. London restaurant, much has happened to Hans Kahle,

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Red Skelton is a comedian off- stage as well as on. When he's not manufacturing

guffaws before thecameras, he's

story-

pretty busy offatage teller. Among tales which have convulsed the "Lady Be Good" cast is the one about the infant sparrow who re- turned to his nest. after his first solo flight. small-time The sparrow came

back with his fine feathers com- pletely gone. He was very sad. A horror strickon mama sparrow eried "GOODNESS, Egbert, what in the world has happened to you?" Badly the baby-sparrow-replied, "Mama, I got mixed up in a bad- minton game."

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MEMORIES: With MG - M's "Ziegfeld Girl" just around the re- lease corner, Lee is reminded that ten years ago this month the late Florenz Ziegfeld announced plans to be called to produce a new show to Ziegfeld Follies of 1991. The first three persons to be signed wore Ruth

Helen Morgan and a Eleanor Hom

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Norma Shearer

and Robert Montgomery were co- starred in "Strangers May Kiss" Spencer Tracy was first bid- ding for screen stardom Low whom you see now the handsome and understanding us. Kildare, was tougble in a film labeled "Iron Men" with Jean Har-·

and low as his leading lady... Rosalind Russell had a very insig nificant role in a stage play, called "Keeping Company." What sercon memories do you recali?

FLASH! The Fashion Academy bas just wired us that Rosalind Russell, now at work with Clark Gable, in "The Uniform," has

been picked as Kollywood's best dressed wo- "rian and Is.high up'on the let of America's ton best feminine fashionpiates.

HOLLYWOODATA: Norma Shearer "anoaked" Into town and out again just as quietly. Lee have kind

Cobb, for, whom thoss Me por words when you trayal of Father Flanagan's; bast friend in “Men of Boys Town," and Wallson Beery were others "who "signed' this week's quest registry.

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In those days he and the he commanded the Thaelmann Battalion-were defenders of democracy's front line. Unsupported by those whom they were in- directly defending, that front line is now at Britain's gates. a soldier, Kahlo, no longer lends his body for experimen- tal work on what happens to men in drowned submarines, on how, perhaps, they can es- cape.

ONCE he commanded the International Brigade, was later military governor of a Spanish province: now he is constantly immersed in tubs, gas chambers-work no 'less dangerous, nasty but in- linitely less romantic than war proper.

Since then this amused, anti-Nazi tolerant, clumsy has seen the inside of three British internment camps, was shipped to Canada in the M.S. Ettrick (about the al- leged bad treatment of whose passengers Mr Mander asked the War Secretary in the make House of Commons to inquiry).

as

First Interned at Kemp.

France.. was ton Park failing, Kahle and his fellow internees suffered most from lack of news; but, he says, "we could usually manage to get a paper by paying for it." For the "News Chronicle" and "The Times" ten shillings -each-was-daily-paid-per-copy- to some unnamed persons. Modesty forbids mention of the price paid for other papers.

to

Canada, SHIPPED

where, says Kahle, "so far as food, warmth, clothing went, we were extremely well treated," he was one of those who collectively, they claim, lost over £1,100 of money, rings, watches, which were stolen from them on landing.

Such was the terror which warning telegrams from the War Oflice had inspired in the Canadian authorities that

June 4, 1941-

By- Walt Disney-

Internee Britain

this party of miserable civi-, lians was mot by one tank battalion, one infantry bat- talion, and two companies of machine-gun motor-cyclists!

"We have been warned that you are a very dangerous lot: we're taking no chances,"

Kahle was told. It was only some days later that the local authorities realised that the War Office had had an un- necessary panic,

AFTER repeated protests

had secured segregation of avowed pro-Nazis, orders came from Ottawa that the camp was to be again divided, this

and time into Jews Gentiles. Intcrnees were ordered to segregate them- selves; refused, were ordered, re-refused. Grounds, for this were that as civilised. human beings they recognised no racial differences, would not be party to them.

re-

Finally the

camp commander segregated them himself, arbitrarl- ly.Katile, once an officer in a crack Prussian regiment, found himself classed as a Jow.

Не comments that although Jews might be expected to be more bitter anti-Nazis than Ger- man conservatives, it was to a broken-down, dirty camp that the former were sent, the latter to a splendid new place. complete with ruaning water, usual offices and sn forth.

ROWNING pleasure of

Kahle's stay In British** Internment camp in Canada was receipt of a letter dated October 31, 1940-Ave months after his internment from the British Ad- intralty, in which one N. McLeod was "commanded by My Lords Commissioners" of the Admiralty, to "thank you for the services which you have been. good enough to render in taking part, at risk to yourself, in recent experimental researches conducted by Prof. J. B. S. Haldane on behalf of the Admiralty."

Britain's prisoner Kahle chuck- led over that letter, when he got It Now A free man, he still chuckles over it. I haven't heard him chuckle so happily since the Italian Fascists brake and ron at the Battle of Guadalajara.

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