1941-08-06 — Page 11

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DONALD DUCK

CONTRACT How

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– BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSO

Strong Bidding, but Not Strong Enough

"Dear Mrs Culbertson: The hand enclosed cost us top-score in Just night's duplicate game, by reason of our fallure to bid the laydown slam. Plense-fix the blame on North South.

Match-point dupllente. North-South. vulnerable. South dealer.'

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that since he knew considerable of South's strength was In Apades. North's yold, that he could not visualize such a perfect fit, without a diamont or a heart loser. Who should have bid the slam, If either? H. S., New York."

South's contention that he "Uki very strongly" is quite justified, but I must point out that both words, "very" and "strongly involve the question of depree. True, South's two spade bit was a "reverse." show- ing strength; his heart raise and fa employment of the Binckwood four notrump were additional announce- ments of an excellent hand. But, from North's point of view, South's

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bidding could equally well represent this hand:

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and now there would be two aces in the hands of the cremy.

Hence, strongly na South bid, he should have bid more strongly be cause of his three first round controls and second poten

round control of fourth sult. At some point in

the the

Buction-perlinpa directly over East's two clubs-South should have made the strongest available bid, n cue. bld in the opponents'

opponents' club sult, ally, this conventional Usually,

bfd an- nounces first round control of the named sult, but it carries another message of even greater importance; It annotincern ʼn very big hand and hanikes a "At." It is perfectly all right to make this sort of bid with only second round control if the rest of the hand is good enough,

Had South combined a cue-bid in.! lubs with his other strong calls, North would have been justified in, elving a jump raise In diamonds. Then it would require no, grent cour- ake on South's part to contract for a alam.

Even as the bidding proceeded, South mht well have "taken chance" on bidding six dinmonds over North's five clubs,

To-morrow's Hand Rubber bridge. Neither side vulnerable, North dealer.

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Pilot Got 4 New Eyelids

"Elght of us in Spitfires ran into about 60 Messerachi- mals at around 28,000 feet," Flight Lieutenant. Richard Hillary said. "They had the. advantage of height. We got five of them and they got me the stooge. I was hit by a cannon shell in the petrol tank. My plane started to burn. I couldn't get the hood open. When I did. it was rather too hot and I passed out. The machine went into a spin and I fell out at about- 10,000 feet. 1 came to fall-· ing through the air, pulled the rip cord and fell in the sea. I was in the water three hours. It's quite impersonal to me now, but it may be happening to any one over there this minute."

Hillary spent the next six days in a Margate hospital sprayed with tannie heid, eight weeks in a London hos- pital and four months in the Plastic Centre for RAF pilots, where he was operated on three times by Dr Archie McIndoe, from the fambus Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He got two new upper eyelids in the first operation, two new lower ones in another, and a new upper lip in the third. He had to have a fourth operation for a mastoid infection brought on by the burns, Hillary says he's going back eventually to get "beautified" some more and have his hands done- now his little fingers are bent double and his hands covered with scar tissue. When Dr McIndoc is finished Hillary won't have any scars.

Hillary was born in Syd-—. ney, Australia, 22 years ago, raised in England and on the Continent. His father is a British Government official.. When he was called up, ha WAN at Oxford "rending modern languages French and German-editing

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on the Trinity College crew. He had done some flying at. an air club-near the univer sity, so he went into the RAF.

His first active duty after nine months of training was. in Scotland. Only single bombers came over.

"It was quite easy to dispose of them. Three planes would go up and #hoot at them. You almost felt sorry for them.. In Scotland I shot. a stag once. It was very unpleasant. It got that look in its eye that you never get from a dead German." Ax

After two months he was trans- ferred to a field near London. On Sept. 3, 1040, at 11 am., one year to the hour after he joined the RAF, he was shot down.

Hillary expects to fly again when Dr Melndoe is Anished wille him. His experience "didn't worry me in the least, but it would be a 'great pity if McIndoe's beautiful work had to be redone. I'll Make a few more precautions the next time." Now he's in America for six months with the British Pur- chasing Commission. This picture was taken in New York just after he arrived.

When the war's 'over' Hillary wants to go into journallam. He doesn't think an invasion of Eng- Innd would get far: "A man from our squadron came down once--- didn't have his tunic on and was burned a bil. He was set on by a crowd of angry women with pen- kalves and anything they could get. He had to be rescued by n bus driver."

Tho English usually don't at- tock downed Germans, he added, don't want to. until the In- formation people have got every- thing out of them. They do get a lot of Information from them. though the worst kind will spit in your eyes when you plak them up."

we are already, soaked through with American slang," you old 'uns who wince when n small boy yells "Okeydoke" or drawls "Yeah?" you fond parents who reach for the hairbrush when little. Henry answers "So what?" when naked whether he's washed his neck, are going to be in for some more shocks pretty

Hoon.

As the bonds between Bri- tain and America become closer and tighter, you're go- ing to need a dictionary.

Or so I gather from what I've just been reading in an American magazine.

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It seems that the Bright Young Folk (who still exist in that unblacked-out land) are now talking a language that has even their own parents guessing.

And, being Bright Young Folk, it's mostly about Love.

You may think you're pretty bright and up to date when you talk about petting or necking.

But you don't do that in America to-day, when you make love.

Instead, you smooch, monk, mug, moustache or hack, and, if you do it in the company of others, you're at a crush party.

Like being kissed in cars? If so, little girl, you're a fever, a cuddlecat, or 'a mug. bug. If not, you're a door- pusher.

And when you girls tell your girl-friends about that dull bloka you were out with the other night, one of these days you'll be referring to

August 6, 1941,

By Walt

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WALT DISNEY

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If he was just a bore, he'll be a troll: If he's tired, he's a bag.

Worst of all, he may be a drip. But when a drip finds, some girl who'll go steady with him, he becomes drizzle.

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Still, the girls haven't thought up all the bright

ones.

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Girls the boys don't like are branded as crows, black widows, poison pans or zom. bies.

If they simply collect boys, they're pinks. If nobody likes them, they're Mona Lizards, and if they pull a "line," they're mealys.

So, next time you want to kiss, the girlfriend good- night, all you've got to say ja: "Sling the muggin' to me, chubbin !"

You might as well start now, You'll have to, or later.

sooner

NICK CAIN.

Three Nazis In A Boat

How a naval gunner's mate took three German prisoners-In "rather peculiar circumstances" was related by Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, an assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, when he opened War Weapons Week at Hythe and Beaulicu, Hants, recently.

He said the man's ship had been zunk by German aircraft and he was supporting himself in the sen on a plece of wreckage, when be saw what he took to be a raft. He swam over to it, but found to hla surprise that it was a rubber dinghy from the German aeroplane which had sunk his ship. The Mircraft had been

and in the hit and had crashed, dinghy were three of its crew. As he started to pull himself into it the German airmen handed over their revolvers, and; surrendered, to, him. He was picked up later a very proud

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Plans are under way for the holding of a practice civilian evacuation, the first in the Philippines, in Taytay on Sunday, Aug. 10, reports the "Manila Bulletin," Mayor Enrique Reyes of Taytay, moving spirit behind the ambitious experiment, sald the practice hears a serious purpose and urged provincial, muni- cipal and school officials and private individuals to co-operate.

Mayor Reyes said all public, elementary school pupils in Tay- tay and possibly in Cainta will

Australian Recruits

The total number of Australian

play the role of inhabitants. The For Air Force children will be congregated near applications for enlistment in the the boundary of Taytay and RAAF since the beginning of Cainta to wait for vehicles September, 1038 was 182,431. Now which will transport them to South Wales headed the recruiting evacuation centre.

list, with Victoria In second place, The figures had to be judged on All available government vehicles population basis, however, to deter- will be used in transporting the mine the true merit of the response school children, Red Cross repre- in the less populous states. The State sentatives stationed in Taytay will totals were: N.S.W., 00,019, Victorin provide quarters for hundreds

of 42,202; Queensland, 20,921; West Aus- evacueça. In order to facilitate tralia, 21,226; South Australia, 18,393; evacuation and assignments of quar-Tasmantu, 4,131.

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A bitter

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When asked how his 2500 prisoners felt about his retirement, Lawes sald "Some Icel pretty bad. They are fine men. I might even say, fine friends.” In his retirement, Lawes will con- tinue writing books and giving radia falls-recreations which have ready brought him a fortune.

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