Evening star. [volume], August 08, 1955, Page B-18, Image 41

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THE EVENING STAR
B-18
Washington, D. C.
MONDAY, AUGUST », ISM
CONTRACT
BRIDGE
By EASLEY BLACKWOOD
Mr. Musay handled his trump
suit miserably in today’s deal to
lose an easy contract by a mile.
Mr. Dale opened the king of
hearts, noticed his partner’s
encouraging eight spot and
continued with the ace and an
other heart'.
North dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
NORTH
(Miss Brash)
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OS 4
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WEST EAST
(Mr. Dale) (Mr. Meek)
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SOUTH
(Mr. Muzzy)
*A Q J 10
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*lO 6 5
The bidding:
North East South West
1* Pass l* Pass
2* Pass 3* Pass
4* All pass
Mr. Muzzy ruffed the third
trick with the ten of spades and.
after some thought, led three
rounds of trumps. When spakes
failed to break 3-3 the hand blew
up in his face. Now his only
chance was that the defender!
with the remaining trump also
had as many as five clubs, so
that dummy’s club suit could be
run without interruption. It can
be said that this was a fairly
unlikely chance.
A club was lead to dummy’s
ace and the suit was continued.
Mr. Dale ruffed the third round
and led a heart to his partner’s:
queen. Mr. Meek returned the
five of diamonds and Mr. Muzzy
won with the ace. That was
his last trick. He had to lose
two more diamonds for down
three.
A kibitzer made the true, if ;
Irritating, statement that three
no-trump was cold on the hand.
Ha was right although that con
tract was difficult to reach and
depended on the opposing hearts
being divided 4-4.
But there was no reason to try
a gambling three-no-trump con
tract. Four spades was all right
and all Mr. Muzzy had to do was
to concede the third trick. In
stead of ruffing with the ten of
spades he should have discarded
a w»ni) diamond. Now if the de
fenders led a fourth heart, that
could be ruffed on the board
with the king of spades, leaving
Ms. Muzzy’s four-card trump
holding intact. He would then
be in a position to extract all of
the outstanding trumps and
claim the balance of the tricks.
His line of play did not even
have the justification of the
possibility of an extra trick. If
the spades had broken 3-3, Mr.
Muzzy still could have taken
only 10 tricks. Only two of his
diamonds could have been parked
im dummy's clubs and a dia
mond would have been lost at
the end. In other words, the
concession of the third trick had
everything to gain and nothing
to lose.
(ODprrifht 1956. General Peaturaa Corp.)
FAMOUS FABLES
By E. E. EDGAB
WORK: During his years in
the Army and the diplomatic
service, Oen. Walter Bedell
Smith always spent long hours
at his Jobs.
One Saturday morning, when
he was Undersecretary of State,
he decided to go to his office,
although it was his day off. He
had a leisurely breakfast and did
not reach his desk until 9 o'clock.
He had scarcely taken his seat,
when the phone rang. President
Eisenhower was calling.
“Are you all right. Beetle?”
asked the President.
“I’m fine, Mr. President,” re
plied Gen. Smith. "Why do you
ask?”
"I’ve been calling since 8
o’clock,” replied the President.
“When I didn’t find you in, I
figured you were sick.”
DOUBTS: Walter Hagen, the
great golfer of his day, was not
averse to using a little psychol
ogy on the opposition. Once,
after playing nine holes of a
tournament match, he' found
himself trailing.
As the two stepped up to the
tenth tee, Hagen said:
"You’re playing a great game
today. By the way, which is
your stronger hand, the right or
the left?”
His opponent, who had been
playing flawlessly without con
cerning himself with such mat
ters, could not help giving the
question thought. The moment
he did, his game fell off and
Hagen breezed through to win.
WORD GAME
Find 22 or more words in
BLIZZARD,
meaning, “a severe snowstorm.”
Average is 19; time limit, 20
minutes.
Rule* of tho «am»— 1 Words nust be
of four or more letters. 2. Words which ,
Ocrrilre four letters by the addition of!
such as "bats,” "cars," are not
used 3. Only one form of a word Is
used 4 Proper names are not used.
Aaswer to EMIXANT
•lan malt, maul mane. male, mate
mantel, mantle, meat, menu. meal, meant,
melt metal mental, mule. mute. ulna,
unlet. lane. late, lament, lame, lean,
lent. lute, lunate, alum. amen, amulet,
ante aunt, name, neat. tale. tael, tame,
seam. teal, tune, tuna, tula.
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swimmer '
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program
14 The Rock,
in San Fran
cisco Bay
16 Contents of ;
the pay
envelope
17 Joan of
Hollywood
18 Smooths
19 Corncobs
20 Public ways:
Abbr.
21 Rifle
22 Washes out
24 Proof
reader’s
direction
25 Useless
fragments
27 Symbols of
industry
28 Tinker Bell,
for instance
29 Out of
comer of eye
31 Sailing
vessels of
Levant
32 Part of foot
33 Bucket
34 City in
Montana
36 St. ,
Canadian
statesman
39 Symbol of
Czechosla
vakia's
democracy
40 Terms of
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address to /
a king
41 Union
payments
43 Woeful word
44 Places to
sleep
46 Falling
weight of a
pile driver
47 502
48 Anoint: •
Obs.
49 All: Italian
51 He’s in the
Army now
53 Citv in
Ohio
54 Denizens of
the upper •
pharynx
55 Great
modem
dramatist
56 Manners and
bearing
57 Ivan and j
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A WORD TO THE WISE
By MRS. FRANK COLBY
C. D. C. of La Porte, Tex.,
sends her pet speech peeve:
"My pet peeve is the use of
the word literally’ for ‘figura
tively,’ as, ‘I was literally fright
ened to death.’ I have seen such
writing in newspaper* as. The
; country is literally alive with
Communists,’ ‘Her bathing suit
; amounted to literally nothing.’
Perhaps you can help preserve
this word that literally means
what it says.”
Answer: Literal means “true to I
the letter”; hence, strictly true:|
in accordance with the facts; not
exaggerated or embellished.
Therefore, he who was literally
scared to death is dead, and cer
tainly could not state that he
had been fatally frightened.
The woman who declares. “My
[ dear, I was literally petrified,”
. should be placed in a niche in
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15 Keenly
enjoyable
16 State flower
of Utah
1 19 Source of
British
humor
23 Uhlan's
weapon
i 24 Took next
boat
26 Richard
Button’s
footwear
28 School
grade
30 Grammar,
logic and
rhetoric
for instance j
31 braten
33 Gay i
34 Girl's name I
35 Without help
36 Having a
thin mouth j
37 More
eccentric:
Slang
38 Natives of
Europe
39 Monastery:
Italian
40 Breaks
traffic law
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44 Loosen
45 Pierces
48 Acidity
50 Astronomica:
bear
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53 Institute In
Cambridge
DOWN
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brilliant
style of
music
2 Becomes
more com
passionate
3 One of the
Brothers
Karamazov
4 Care for sick
5 Part of a
typewriter
6 Pirate of the
Gulf of
Mexico
7 Travels to
Gretna
Green
8 Skin
afflictions
9 Washington
players
10 Transport
| agency in
I Washington
11 Contro- .
some statuary hall, for she has
been turned to stone.
This use of literally, instead of
figuratively, is called hyperbole
(high-PER-boe-lee, "extravagent
exaggeration”). It is a useful
and often effective figure of
speech, but it can easily be over
worked.
I should avoid the hyperbolic
use of the word literally in seri
ous speech and writing. "I was;
i frightened to death” is exag- 1
geration enough without exag- 1
i gerating the exaggeration by de
claring that it is literally true.
Literal and literally are valu
. able and Indispensable words.
' We should preserve them in their
■ true and literal meaning.
: How much better and stronger
it is to say: I was nearly (almost,
t all but, well-nigh) frightened to
’ death!
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By CONSTANTINE CHEKREZI
Washington circles experienced
quite a shock when it was “re
vealed” the Eisenhower adminis
tration agreed to the United
States-Red China conference at
' Geneva because India's Krishna
Menon (KRISH-nah MEN-on)
told the State Department that
the Chinese would start an all
out attack on Quemoy (Keh-
MOY) and Matsu (MUTS-OO)
islands unless the United States
consented to direct negotiations
with Communist China. That,
it was said, was why U. 8. Am
bassador U. Alexis Johnson went
to Geneva to talk with Ambassa
dor Wang Ping-nan (Woo-ung
Ping-NUN).
, Wang Ping-nan, it is said, is
the confidential agent of Red
China’s Premier Chou-En-lai
("Joe” Ann-Lye). He is further
termed as a "master of intrigue”
and a very hard man to deal
with. Ambassador Johnson re
ferred to his Chinese counterpart
as the ambassador of "The Peo
ple’s Republic of China,” a term
avoided before. Peiping <Pay- ;
ping) Radio announced the same
day that Red China was releas
ing 11 American airmen.
It became quite evident thati 1
the liberation must have come
about through the “peace-loving”
intervention of Soviet Russia’s
Bulganin < 800 l - GAH - nin i,
Krushchev i WROOSH -chess)
and Zhukov (ZHOO-koff) as an
indicative gesture of lessening of
tensions in Europe and Asia.
(All Rights Reserved.)
OUR PRESIDENTS
By HONORE M. CATUDAL
1. In the President’s funeral
procession along Pennsylvania
avenue in the Nation’s Capital
32 years ago today, were his suc
cessor and two predecessors In
the White House. Who were
these four Presidents?
2. In Chicago 43 years ago an
enthusiastic “Bull Moose” Na
tional Convention nominated a
former Chief Executive for the,
presidency, who finished second
in a three-cornered race the fol-;
lowing November. Who?
3. On August 7 many years ago
the President issued a proclama
tion in which he warned “all
persons whomsoever against aid
ing, abetting or comforting the
perpetrators of the aforesaid
treasonable acts.” Which Pres
ident, Washington. Lincoln or
i Jefferson?
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