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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1978
Page
4
Ni by Judd presents a rack rearrangement puzzle with a 20 minute limit. Each row yields a 2 to 7 letter word scored by the right side directions, with 7 letter words earning a 50 point bonus. Blanks count as any letter but carry no points. Proper nouns foreign words slang or hyphenated terms are forbidden. Judd's Solution Tomorrow 1113 78.
A dense list of weekday TV programming details spanning from 6:00 PM to 1:50 AM, including news, game shows, dramas, movies, public affairs, and late-night features. Entries cover 1G Qeeo News Dick Cavett Match Game Newlywed Game Muppets Marcus Welby Ironside and more among networks NBC CBS and ABC with occasional special programs and public service bits.
The Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra led by Richard Williams performed Mahler’s Resurrection at the Paramount Theatre with a massive chorus. Despite many vacant seats, the stage was filled with instrumental and vocal soloists and singers in the grand finale. The concert ranks as a notable milestone in Williams career and in the orchestra’s history.
Review lauds Williams conducting the Mahler Resurrection with Don Haines as concertmaster and Ann Larson Elise Ross and the chorus delivering dramatic, ethereal passages. Despite organ limitations, performance conveyed strong energy, orchestral precision, and rare somber beauty, culminating in apocalyptic climaxes. Robert Louis Stevenson quote closes the piece.
A three year old dog Sandy writes to Dear Abby from San Diego, recounting being adopted for $12.72 and expressing affection for people while noting Abby’s stance on dogs on laps. The letter begins with a playful exchange about heart and lap etiquette and ends mid-sentence as the husband and wife discussion continues.
A reader laments a wedding invite that excluded her children 500 miles away. Abby replies that invitations to couples typically name recipients only unless children are included. No explicit rule requires listing children. On this date in 1850, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson was born.
Alan and Oswald discuss Stayman and Jacoby transfers for readers. The lesson uses a sequence where South opens one notrump, North responds two clubs, South rebids two spades to show four, and North bids game. South discards a diamond and a heart as dummy’s fourth heart holds.
Sam Stayman of New York is recognized as a top player who helped develop and popularize the Stayman convention. He did not truly invent it, but his influence popularized its use in bridge strategy.
Bridge bidding sequence fragment shows players North East and South pass, South opens 1NT, response passes, followed by 4 and passes with AJ indicating an opponent's bid or cue. The snippet lacks complete context and final contract.
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