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CONTRACT How to Play
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How to Win
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
Avoid Two Notrump Contracts
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WHENEVER team has a part-, und laid down a club for the setting
score, large enough for a suit trick. contract of three-odd to produce a
moment's study of the North- game, the partners aro wise to agree South hands reveals that Я on a suit contract rather than to pln heart contract could not have been their faith in two nutrump. Natur- missed, no matter how badly de- ally, this is not a blanket statement clarer guessed. affecting all cases.
Of course, was What I do want equally true in this case that two to emphasize is that two notrump is notrump should have been brought rarely an ideal contract. Consider home due to the hlocked condition
such a case as the following:
North desler.
Both sides vulnerable.
North-South 30-part-scOTE.
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of the club suit and to West's fallure to shift to
diamond. Declarer had been guilty of atrocious reasoning in failing to play the spare ace after running the hearts. One thing wa certain-West would have cushed the fast club if he had held it, hence that care was fairly well marked with Fast. The next point was that West, after running the clubs, would not ave shifted to the spade eight if he had held the queen; from his polit of view, such a lead would appear suicidal. As. the cards lay, a
din- mond shift by West would have defeated the contract producing five clubs and one
his
for the defenders. Surely, if West had held the spade queen, he would have preferred to shift to dlarsonda on the chance of
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in with that suit. His only excuse Buth North and South were at fauft fur the spade lead could have been
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king in the suit, henge
for landing. In a two nutrump con hoped to find his partner with the tract. South's error lay in persisting or at least a stopper. with potrump- over Neril's two)
That, hearts; a three heart bid by South declarer should have been virtually would have been more logical. North, certain that East held the spade jack was wrong when he did not persist as well as the queen, and after Esst's with his own mujor suits; a rebid to spade discard, either the jack was three hearts, was obviously in order blank or West had no thore spades. West opened the club ten. East Hence it could cost nothing to lay won and returned his original fourth well and good; if it did not, declarer down the spade nce. If the jack fell, best club. West cashed all his clubs,
diamond in his quesi neatly picking up South's queen, but could still lead due to the blocked condition of the for the fulfilling trick. club sult, East was left and
high: with the thirteenth.
Wes
dry shifted to the spade eight. Dummy covered with the nine, East with the jack, and declarer won. Five heart tricks were now run off, due to the fortunate position of the king.
On the three
heart leads to which he could not East had serious discarding
the
tes. In desperation, he blank-
ed the spade queen in order to keep hip good club and the diamond sec. Declarer,
not dreaming that East would have the nerve to unguard the spade sult, now led a diamond toward his king. He was thoroughly dis- gusted when East won with the ace
To-morrow's Hand. Match-point duplicate, North-South vulnerable. East dealer.
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TO FLEET STREET
One of England's best-known columnists tells what it is like to be a reporter in London when it is raining bombs. This is the 'first of two articles; the second will appear to-
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bidding, to turn red and some building
By Ritchie Calder When an American down and the white mag- publisher asked
nesium fires leap up at their send him my war diary as a journalist, I offered him my favourite suit; it is the only diary I have kept.
That streak of paint on the sleeve is the entry for September 3, 1939, when, after waiting inside Num- ber Ten, Downing Street, for the declaration of war, I dived into an over- new air raid shelter half an hour later at the sound of the first sirens.
That men that never was quite invisible is a reminder. of the return of the ragge legions from Dunkirk, And it is camouflaged with stains of mud and grease, each of which is a souvenir of some undignified flop in the gutter during the Battle of Britain.
For I am what is called "The new kind of War Corres- pondent."
The traditional kind still has to have his uni- form-peaked cap, officer's tunic, natty breeches and burnished riding boots-be- fore he can go off with a Bri- tish Expeditionary Force to some romantic battle-front. The "new kind" if he is wise, also has his uniform-his oldest suit in which, when he hears the whistle of a bomb, he can fling himself into the mud in some unromantic back- street.
These mottle marks on the -jacket-are-a-shorthand more cryptic than that of Samuel Pepys. They record the sequel to his diary of the Great Fire of London. They are the. scorches left by the Second Great Fire of London. A fiery confetti spattered it during my vigil on the roof, nine storeys high. in the heart of the flaming city.
If the moths do not com- plete the job of the blitz, 1 may be able to tell my grand- children: "See that scorch on the coat colla? That was the Middle Temple library. And that scar on the sleeve? That was Wren's church of St Bride's. And the con- stellation of singe murks? That was when the court where Dr Johnson once lived went up in a Bessemer-blast of sparks. Maybe it was his dictionary exploding into derivations...And that..." What a night it was for journalists and for the news- papers themselves. For the "new kind of War Correspon- dent" does not go off to war; he waits for war to come to .him.
And it comes most nights. The "new kind" includes "everyone from the editor downwards, because it is not oven necessary to go outside the offico-most of Britain's great national newspapers have had bombs of some kind all to themselves.
On the night of the Firo- blitz, I went on the roof of the "Daily Herald" with the spotters. Goering's arson- squadrona flow in with the binck-out, at an hour when, in peace-time, London's Sun- day bells would have been ringing for Evensong. In- stond there was the brmmm- brmmm of the enemy 'planes plying as regularly as a sircet-car servico into the heart of London and the raucous answar of the' anti- aircraft gurja,
orange
caught light. Then there was the thud of the heavy oil bomba, followed like a visible echo by the upsurge of flames. The explosion of high explosives made the fire- luze vibrate.
London stood out na clear us daylight against its own flames and, as each plane flew
in, harried by the barrage, then tipped and turned, n sense of helpless despair gripped one, until the spotter casually remarked: "It's go ing to be a warm night," just as he was accustomed to say, when his lofty porch was rocking with high explosives, "Bit noisy to-night."
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Weanwhile I had to go down Into the City. Only that private self with whom' I conferred so urgently and so fervently, knows the reluct ance, misgivings and honest- to-goodness wind-up I had to overcome before I ventured out, to break through the cordon of flaming buildings,
But what courage I lacked I quickly borrowed from the wardens and civilians whom 1 found scrambling into blaz- ing offices to drag out valu- ables or douch incendiaries.
Smoke blackened faces would suddenly become re- cognisable fellow-news- papermen who had come out to lend 11 hand. And the auxiliary firemen, civillans turned fire-fighters, were singing as they manned the pumps or careered with hoses up alleyways which like furnace mouths.
During that night, I divided my time between the roof and telephoning a running commentary on the fires front my flat high above Fleet Street.
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A street us narrow as a ditch separated it from the nores, of raging flames. The room was as bright as day- light. I remember thinking
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Just then, as though a con- ductor had flicked his baton, the guns were curtly silenced, the overture finished. And the night was for the mo- ment, shared between the roar of the bombers and the clangor of the fire-bells. Then, suddenly, like the tearing of calico, a new sound ripped the skies-our night fighters were on the job.
The incoming wave of Nazi 'planes" met the impact. The fighters darted in and out of the smoke-roofs in a battle which raged over the heart of London. The bombers dropped their bombs sporadi- cally, like startled waitresses dropping trays of crockery, Then they turned tail and hended home,
"But the next wave will bring the high explosives." said the spotter grimly, look- ing down on the City of Lon- don ringed with fires like a flaming target into which, as at Coventry, Birmingham, Bristol, Southampton and elsewhere, cach successive wave would tip its load of destruction.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
of that grin moment in the Spanish War when our war- correspondent finished tale- phoning his dispatch from Madrid and then remarked casually to his colleague in London: "Well, goodbye, Cocky! I mayn't be telephon- ing again. The building is on fire."
And yet I forgot on the 'phone to mention that my own_block of flats had caught- fire. "Slack reporting" said the Night Editor severely, when I confessed next day,
Several newspaper offices were put temporarily out of action that night. The "Daily Telegraph" was well alight and throughout the night and into the morning I watched them fighting for the survival of a newspaper. It was still smoking when I heard out- side my door the familiar flop.
And there were all the newspapers as usual-includ ing the "Daily Telegraph." I had to look out of the win- dow again-yes, it was still smoking. Even a reporter has to marvel at the feats of his Press colleagues.
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