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How to Win
BY JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Bad Defense
To supply declarer with an entry had to make one discard. Whatever which he cannot produce through he chose would be equally unsatic-
his own efforts is one of the worst of all defensive errors. In to-day's hand East's defence was characterised thore by altruism than by shrewd
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North dealer. East-West vulnerable.
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West opened the heart jack. De- clarer won and immediately took the spade finesse to the jack. East won and, having no heart to return shifted to the fourth best club. De- clarer put up the king and led the club queen right back. East won with the ace and made n return which, to put
It mildly, was imaginative. Impressed by the fact that his long club suit was within one trick of estabilahment, he naively led back the nine of clubs, thus mak- ing declarer a gracious gift of a club trick that could not have been reach- ed in any other way.
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Declarer led a spade to dummy and ran off the entire sult, which brought his total to eight tricks. When the last spade was played poor West found his discarding difficulties unsolvable. Holding the A-J nf hearts and the A-J of diamonds, he
factory from his point of view. To blank the ace of hearts would invite declarer to lead dummy's heart and West then would have to return diamond from the A-J. To blank the diamond jack would mean a throw- n ploy in diamonds, with a subse- quent heart trick for declarer.
East's insistence on clubs had been the sart of defence that drives part- ners lo distraction. East should have counted that his final club re- turn, putting declarer back into his own hand, would mean nine certain tricks for North-South, Declarer already had a heart trick home and five spade tricks were in sight. Two club tricks would bring this total to eight, and East could see that the diamond king, whether or not West had the nee, was n sure trick.
September 12, 1941,
By Walt Disney
DAV DISNEY
Woman Designs
This Planes
To look at, nothing seem less capable of pro- duction by unskilled la- bour or by women than a high-powered aeroplane cutting through the sky at fantastic speeds. Can women workers be used for the production of a thing so powerful, so com- plicated and yet so delic- ate? Are they so used, and are they a success?
To find an answer to these questions I sought an interview with Mrs Miles, the only woman director of a plane-build- Successful defence involved nothing ing factory in Britain,
than keeping de- more ingenious elarer out of his own hand. could have been done in two differ- fent ways: East could have thrown dummy back on lead with a spade or could have led a diamond directly up to the king. Surely it took no great arithmetical ability to count that if declarer had the dipmond, ace
was lost.
To-morrow's Hand
South dealer. Both sides vulnerable.
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and, herself a remarkable example of abilities and talents not generally ex- pected in a woman. Mrs Miles herself designed the "Sparrowhawk" and has for many years taken her full share of responsibility in the management of the Phillips and Powis Air- craft Company Ltd., of which both she and her husband are directors. This, by the way, has grown from the compara- tively, small beginnings of a concern intended mainly for the luxury production of planes for the use of private owners' to the enormous dimensions of a factory "all out" on way work.
Beyond Praise
"There are two things, said, Mrs Miles, "which stand out above every thing else in this question of using women for highly technical work. The first is the girls and women themselves. They are be- yond. praise. Even the grumpiest foreman, full of prejudices against in- novations, has to admit their willingness, their keenness and their general intelligence. The second is that the whole difference between success and failure depends on the in- genuity with which the work is broken up."
"What does "breaking up' mean?"
"It menns dividing the work into a lot of simple. operations. Imagine any par. ticular job you like which a qualified engineer completes by himself. Dealing with un- trained people, you divide it up into as many as, perhaps, twenty, thirty or forty different ensy stages. You entrust your beginners with only
one the first
and that, mind, you, must be 80 carefully thought-out that any unskilled person of ordinary intelligence can: perform it. Let them do it and go on do- ing it. That gives them con- fidence. Next, you promote. the best of your beginners to operation Number Two, while the remainder stay to help more newcomers to get into the way of Number One. Gradually you thus build up a number of operatives who perform through the medium of dozens of minor operations the same work which quili- fled engineers used to do aing ly. Now, what pleases us particularly is that our wo men workers are, so quick in
for the for the
learning to carry out their particular part of the whole precess with precision and speed, that the combined out- put of any given team is soon equal to that of the same num- ber of fully skilled engineers handling the job in the single- handed fashion of the old days.
"So successful is this system that the time is fast approach- ing when an acroplane may be entirely woman-produced.
"At present the percentage of female labour used varies with the nature of the work, but there are certain parts of it which are even now carried out exclusively by women."
On the subject of fatigue Mrs Miles considers a forty
By T. Ashley
hours week for women' the
leul to be aimed at. War necessities make longer hours inevitable, while there is also the extra inducment of higher over-time pay to pull in that direction. Girls and women share the men's liking for the "dispersed" small part-fac- tories started for the sake of better protection 'against 'the danger of air-raids. There they soon become valued mem- bers of smaller working teams, apparently feeling happier thun in large single-unit fac- tory plants. They learn cer- tain jobs more quickly than the average, man but are less ambitious than the best of the Jatter.
An occasional change of routine is always welcome to them, but they are invariably. apprehensive at first of facing any of the larger machine- tools. The best recruiting agents for more female labour among the girls and women still outside factory work are those who have already taken to it.
My interview. with this re- markable advocate of women's active collaboration in one of the most vital war produc-
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tions concluded with another
ness.
example of the workers' keen- "At one early stage of our sub-divided programme of production" said Mrs Miles, "we had made our plans and. obtained materials for a full two months' output of a par-' ticular component before starting our beginners on a given item of work. Such a programme is not drawn up hastily. It is fully calculated, checked
and cross-checked
in every possible way. Well, our women workers improved 80 quickly and were so keen that they sailed through the whole of our two months' sup- ply of raw materials in exact- ly four working weeks, and we had the greatest difficulty in getting more in time. There's keenness for you!"
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Ranee of Sarawak Gestapo "Black List"
En route to Kuching, the Rance of Sarawak, returned to Singapore recently by the Anzac Clipper-her first step on British soil after nearly two years--with tales of how she was almost "stranded" în America and worked in several ways to raise U.S.$1,400 in order to get an air passago back to the East,
The Ranée believes she is on] Now, the Ranee is returning to the German Gestapo's "Black Sarawak to write and wrlic. She is List" because of
amalgamating two of her books on anti-Fifth Sarawak, she is "tled up" with Column work she did in Britain newspaper syndicate in New York just after the war broke out, for a series of articles, and she ta and she spoke of five anonymous hoping to publish in Singapore letters she received threatening book on Sarawak legends. her life either in America or on However, she also hopes to be able her flight back to Singapore.
• Opening her handbag, the Rance brought out an unsigned pencilled letter which rend:
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return to London soon, to, her three daughters--the Countess Inchcape ("who is likely to marry gain after the war, But I don't even know the surname of the Rob bridegroom"), Mrs
"I know that you are leaving. You (waiting for her divorce to become are very anwise. Singopore is a long absolute), and Mrs Harry Ray (who way off, but not too far. You had is somewhere. In Wales "radiantly better pray for your life, you will happy and with beautiful children)." need those prayers. I have friends In Landon, i know.'what you did
"The White Rajah" there. We do not forget. God help you."
The
Rance
went to Hollywood early in 1930 in order to advise on
Speaking to a reporter, she sald, the filming by Warner Bros. of "The "Two of the letters were thrust Into White Rajah." starring Errol Flynu my hands as I was walking down as the first Rajah of Sarawak. New
York's Broadway, and the others I received by mall.
Asked about the film, the Rance "I took no notice of them. I'm not replied, "Oh, I don't know what's happened. They never storied on frightened," she said.
14, and it was impossible to get on with them."
The Ranco landed wearing a Sara- wak costume of sarong and kabaya her wrist was an identity bracelet of
with a few gold ornaments, Around
A shy British millionairess is facing the biggest decision of her life to sell or not to sell virtual control of nearly 500 | gold. British cinema's to Americans.
films.
Life During Wor
"Among the valued possessions she has brought back to Sarawak is an autographed photograph of President Roosevelt.
"I tried to see him, but I could She is Mra John Maxwell, widow
This has been her life. since the not," she said, adding, "I think he is of the Glasgow solicitor who built outbreak of war,
a genius.". up the Assoclated British Pictures;
In September, 1939, she was jec-
War in the For East? The Ranco Corporation and became the most turing in the United States, and she remarked, "In America, they think Influential personality in British was returning to Sarawak when she it is a great bluft on the part of received a cable from the Rajah.ad-Japan, and that Japan is not going to
dare not do anything. In Sim circles it is reported that Vising her to wail. Warner Brothers, of Hollywood, are She went to London and was there "But, if they do start something." offering nearly £2,000,000 for hair for 4 monthe-In time for the first asserted the Rance, "They are going of Mrs Maxwell's holdings in the air raids. She returned to California to get it hot," Associated, British Pleture Corpora- where she undertookt free lectures The Ranee expressed pleasure at tion.
on how Britain was taking the blitz.being able to
Saro- be present at This tour lasted three months, and wak's centenary celebrations this then she returned to New York to month. "settle down and try to earn some money."
"That is one reason why I worked hord and saved. money to be in only just over £10 a month from she said.
Exchange restrictions allowed her Sarawak for this historical occasion, Sarawak, and so, to quote the Ranee again, "I had to get money in order
Mr Maxwell, who died last Octo- ber was rigidly opposed to the sale of any part of his film Interests to America, because he wanted to see a-vigorous British film industry which would challenge Hollywood.
But his widow knows that Britain wants American dollars to buy more war munitions. The Board of Trade
has made it clear that the proposed sale would have their blessing.
Latest development is that Mr Max Milder, Warner's British chief, has left for U.S.A.
Although he reason he gave for the trip was
desire to see his family, Mr Milder will probably consult his firm on the terms of the
deal.
to live.
"I wanted to get back to Sarawak, too, and therefore I had to make U.S.$1,400. My Annncial situation was becoming a little bit frightening. "I wrote an article for an Ameri- can magazine, putting my cards on the table and informing America was looking for a job.” This helped. me considerably.
me
"Three
articles brought U.S.$1,000—they pay well in Americo and I went on radio programmes, Mrs Maxwell's decision lins not yet which did not pay much, and also been announced, but it is under-wrote more articles.
"I made a record advertising some: stood that negotiations, which have wine I had never drunk in my life, been proceeding for some weeks, are
likely to end in an agreement short- and then I got a lucky break. ly.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
GENERAL FUFFLE
ewhere, Lieutenant-l can. my wife being on hand!”
Sued "Time"
"Time", the news magazine, attack- ed me for writing a book derogatory to my family.
"I had a clever lawyer who seized) on one point, sued "Timo" for libel, 'and the matter was settled out of; court for U.S.$700.
"Did my experiences change my outlook:? I think they did.
"I understand now how people feel when they cannot get money. I did everything short of thieving. My situation made me loathe people rid- ing past me in big cars when walking.
WAS
It taught me the value of money I really do understand now what the cost of living means. It has made me less extravagant."
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