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BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSO

"Swing" Hand

A SWING of 2,400 points on a tract could be defeated, and surely single board is enough to decide a double, "placing" the spades for almost any team-of-four

South's guidance, would match.

not In- That was the case in the recent Vant-over, there

crease the detenders chance. More derbilt tournament in New York, ability that East would not be able was the strong prob- with the hund shown below playing stand the double, the role of both hero and villain- could not. North's prompt redouble us indeed he

according to the point of view.

put East-West in the position where they had to lose an enormous num- ber of points either by standing pat ar by running to five hearts.

on South's

Both sides vulnerable.

Trum-of-four match.

Total point scoring.

North dealer.

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purt could have produced two extra tricks' at a four spade contract, but Inas- much as this would have involved It

almost double dtunmy technique, is highly questionable that slam con- tract should have been reached and. even more questionable, that it would have been made if West had not dis- situation. The con-

closed the spade

clusion, so far as it affects this table, must be that East-West took entirely too much netion on their very mengre resources,

At the other table, the partners of,

At table No. 1, the bidding pro- the ill-fated East-West team, here

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10

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W'est Dble.

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It required only reasonable de- fense to hold East to six of his eight heart tricks and thus he had to pay the suleidal penalty of 1,100 points. T The fault here must be divided fair-! ly evenly between East and West. East's preemptive heart bid was anything but good, despite his ex- treme length. Had he not been vul- nerable, there would have been logic in his attempted shut-out, but as it was, the risk was too great. Even 10, however, he would have escaped without punishment execpt for the atrocious co-operation of his part- ner. South refused to be shut out with his very fair ham, and though a leap to four spades entailed con- siderable risk, it appeared to be the least of all evils. It was West wha Put hla

own team in Jeopardy by doubling the four spade bid, Grant- Ing that he could expret better hearts from East, It was still highly

questionable that a four space con-

4tting North-South, did

just as badly, reaching 11 seven diamond gontract! West dentbled and North had the unmitigated nerve

to

re- double. The contract was defeated two tricks for 1,000 points. Thus the teammates sitting North-South

the first table and Fast-West at the second table, collected 2,400 pojute on this board,

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The Blitz Comes to Fleet Street

By Ritchie Calder

Never once, through- out the blitz, has any of the national newspapers failed to come out. Some- times it has been a be lated. edition, but the tradition has been un- broken. And the same is true of the provincial

papers.

That brief

Yet it is still possible for country readers to write in indignantly: "From my shelter, I heard enemy planes flying over continuously all night and yet all I find in my morn ing paper is a brief ac- count account probably meant newspapermen going out into Hell, being injured, falling into craters, being knocked out by blast and crawling back through wreckage and falling bombs to catch the coun- try edition.

Once, before they were seasoned, newspaper staffs used to go to shelter when the spotters gave the "Flicker"a lamp that flashes in every départ- ment when the bombs are dropping in the immediate vicinity. Now, with the windows bricked up, they just carry on at their desks, ignoring "Jerry.".

They go home in the morning, often, to find their own homes bombed and all they possess de-. -troyed,-and-just-mention it as a piece of gossip when they return to duty the same night.

Some of us are the Blitz- Bloodhounds. Wherever the Luftwaffe goes, we must fol- law,

When London was be- ing pounded in September, the only way to get Front Line stories was to be in the Front Line and that meant sharing day and night the lives of these ordinary, but incredible people of the back- streets. It meant patrolling the blitz at all hours.

It

meant sleeping' — al- though "sleep" was often an exaggeration-in every type of shelter (and, believe me, I did take shelter)-Ander- sons, surface shelters, big community shelters, where every race and type herded together, the Tubes and luxury shelters of de luxe hotels. That was when I discovered that "pluck" was often just funk in disguise.

Most often, it was a case of "putting a face on it" be- cause otherwise you might look silly as I did when I crawled out from under a bar in an East End pub to find the unperturbed Cockneys. laughing at mo, although the bomb had dropped only a block away.

Of course, I had my tin hat, but sometimes it wasn't much use. For instance, one night I was making a tour of shel- ters with Father Groser, militant, indomitable, tireless clergyman of the East End.

It was one of the bad. nights, but Father John went striding along, throughout the black-out and blitz, his cassock flying and his white head uncovered. Every time a bomb dropped he told me it was n door slamming in-one of the wrecked houses. Whon n building collapsed, he said it was the demolition squad working late.

And all the time ho kept

다.

well-known London's columnist

on talking about water get- ting into the shelters, or how he could get Mrs Brown away from London, or how to persuade the East Enders to pay less than a penny for a cup of tea, without them thinking it was charity. Ten feet ahead of us, a mighty way. "An incendiary bomb." spark leapt from the foot-

I suggested. "No," unid was, eighteen inches long and John, "a splinter." So it

weighing a pound.

It was then I took him firmly by the arm and said: "Why don't you wear a tin hat, John? If you don't, I can't. It isn't done." Coolly he said: "I can't wear a tin hat. My people have not got tin hats. If I wore one, it would make me different from them. So both of us had to finish the night bareheaded.

Within a month, I had

been

out in twenty-three blitzes. Since then I have

On

"It didn't," I replied. "Don't be silly," he said severely, "it must have landed just here." And for ten minutes we argued, quite heatedly, as to what I had done with that bomb.

Presumably it had "touched off" in the air. But that warden had to account for it somehow in his return.

We journalists may count ourselves hardened campaign- ers, but we realise we are mere amateurs.compared with these matter-of-fact heroes of the civil defence.

A colleague was in the thick of a

bomb-incident. He was groping his way through a mosh of fire hoses, with

the bombs dropping around, and pretending-to be a hero, when he fell headlong into a fresh-made crater. As he was climbing out of it, a warden leaned over the edge and demanded: "Where's your identity card."

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But in my off- time I have been the first to take cover when the sirens went. Why? Because, I have. a "suicide complex." I would not deliberately commit sui- cide, but, when there is a job to be done, my life isn't my own responsibility.

That nasty smear on my waistcoat is the reminder of the night I "pinched the. bomb." The blitz had based into silence and I was alone in a deserted street when.. suddenly, there was the whistle of a stick of bombs, one, two and a third-by the sound of it-coming straight for me. I dived into a puddle. There was a terrific explosion and I waited for the build- ings to collapse on top of me.

Nothing happened. I pick- ed myself up rather sheepish- ly to be confronted by a panting warden. "Where did that one land?" he demanded.

GRIN

the hell exploded the journalist. "Do you think I came down with the bomb?"

The regular "Blitz-blood- hounds," whom I encounter in cach new Blitz Town, include American journalists. One of them. after he had been dug out of the cellar of his bomb- ed house, said to me. "Can I -call myself-a 'Longioner now?

I've been initiated!"

That has been one of the compensations of our job in the Battle of Britain. We haven't been just reporters standing outside the event and recording it.

We have been part of the event. We have been hitiated into the "brotherhood of the blitz-into that "we-are-all- in-it-together" fellowship of the ordinary blokes. with whom we have shared the risks and lived the "story."

The Front Page has become the Front Line,

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