NARFE Meeting and Local Notices Drizzle Across City Briefs
City briefs list NARFE meeting at Holiday Inn with lunch at 12:30 p.m. and a program, plus notices about students in Paris through Central College, AA meeting at Trinity Lutheran School, business ads for local services, and travel offers. A mix of civic, social, and commercial items populate the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NARFE
National Association of Retired Federal Employees
Holiday Inn
France
Kimberlee Ann Twohill
Cedar Rapids
Paris
Central College
Pella
Alcoholics Anonymous
Trinity Lutheran School
Seventh Ave
Bud H
Bob F
Dubuque
Miami attorney fuels airline watchdog gains in fares and bags
Don Pevsner a 34 year old Miami attorney bills himself as a consumer watchdog for airlines calling for fair baggage weights and no frills fares. He operates without pay and has spent over 2000 dollars lobbying while filing complaints via airline hot lines. Pevsner cites CAB rulings and ongoing vigilance as benefits to the traveling public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Don Pevsner
APEX
Pevsner
Mimi Cutler
Aviation Consumer Action Project
ARCH Strategy Beats Tough Bridge Hands
Oswald Jacoby and Alan Sontag discuss planning plays in bridge. They illustrate elimination of losers by trump promotion and careful ruffing to force East into a Hobson choice, allowing South to discard a club loser while keeping the contract viable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan
Oswald
East
South
West
Five down double vulnerable penalties in 1834
A Kentucky reader asks if a time existed when five down doubled vulnerable cost 2,000 points. In the early 1830s a sliding penalty scale charged 200 for the first trick 300 for the second and so on. On this date in 1834 Ameridown reached 2,000 and painter James Whistler was born at 2,700.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Ameridown
James Whistler
Also Mentioned on This Page
Suzan Haddad
Madeline’s
Donald A.F. Nelson
Drs
Linn Democrats
Ray’s Market
Churches United
Adv
U.S
Jerome’s
IE Tower
Ample Lady’s Summer Sale
Chicago
Malcolm Peel
Travel & Transport
Mackinac Island
Koma Kalela
Tom
Darrell
Jeannie Hess
LeRoy’s
All Saints School
Lady’s
Stiers Crafts
Kirkwood Ave
Iowa City
Rolls Royce Limousine Rental
Creanes
Dial
Noo
WATS
Oswald Jacoby
Alan Sontag
Asksnerxol
North
Ke Ei
Collins Employees Credit Union
Iowa
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