Polly's Pointers Readers Share Handy Household Tips
Readers contribute practical homemaking ideas from bed making with striped spreads to using old newspapers for messes and painting shoe boxes. Tips cover camp checklists, recipe card organization, and kitchen storage with fabricating small chores for children and quick repairs.
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Bridge Card Fragments Hint at Sudden South Lead
Fragmentary OCR shows a bridge hand with JACOBY’S BRIDGE J iosss KQ105 SOUTH (D) e VAKQT4 K764 A91 ing lead. The garbled text suggests a lead description and common five card pattern from a bridge column.
Overtricks and misjudgment in rubber bridge play
Oswald Jacoby reviews a rubber bridge hand where South, after safely securing the contract, tries for an extra trick. His diamond turn could have guaranteed at least one overtrick. instead, misread timing and a poor trump sequence led to limits of eight tricks and four losses.
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Puzzle of Missing Letters Across a Dated Crossword List
A fragmentary list presents clues and partial answers blending terms from a themed crossword. The items mix geographic names, languages, and common words with missing letters, suggesting a puzzle page snippet from a historical newspaper.
Bridge bidding puzzle prompts two no trump response
A partner overcalls two no trump after your one spade, prompting actions in a daily bidding quiz. The prompt asks for the best bid and reasoning, focusing on standard bridge theory for the given hand.
Hollywood gossip and set clashes on the McHale’s Navy stunt
ERSKINE JOHNSON reports from Hollywood about on set tensions between Joe Flynn and Ernest Borgnine leading to a temporary halt in McHale’s Navy production. He also notes Shirley Jones’s hair change to brunette and shares playful anecdotes from the Fluffy set including Tony Randall’s lion scene and a comic on set encounter.
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