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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1961
Page
17
The column blends a 1961 horoscope with stray facts and quirky items. It cites May to August as auspicious for romance and travel, notes September for stability gains, warns of tension in February and July, and mentions a birthday year of promise. It also adds vignette-like lines about a musician child, vinegar from watermelons, an ex-boxer timing punches, and a teapot tea-pipe office desk concept.
In a 1956 European championship hand Austria and Great Britain illustrate a strategic error. South misled by a perceived spade threat led a trump to the king, costing the contract. Proper play would have used the KQ of diamonds as future club losers to avoid spade and club losses.
The column lampoons Khrushchev blame games, Dutch schools chess courses, and Paris fog dispersal by propane causing snow. A Zadok Dumkopf quip mocks stagnant temperatures while astronomers note a star 20 million times hotter than the Sun, with humor on distant heat.
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