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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1978
Page
16
ABC led the week ending August 27 with a 15.3 national prime time rating. CBS and NBC followed at 14.8 and 14.0 respectively. Top shows included Three’s Company, Quincy M E, Laverne and Shirley, M A S H and Rockford Files with wide viewing in millions.
Hamlet opens with his jack of hearts against Polonius's four spade contract. Ophelia wins a trick with her king and shifts to trump. Hamlet topples declarer's king with an ace and debates leading or letting a ruff. Ophelia holds the 10 of spades. a show of strong defense from Elsinore draws cheers.
North Carolina reader asks if Theodore Lightner, famed Lightner convention inventor, remains active. The answer is yes. Ted Lightner is now 85 and still plays rubber bridge weekly at New York Regency Whist Club.
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