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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 17, 1971

Page

15

Grand slam force aids unlikely success in bridge hand

In a team of four match, the grand slam force using five notrump guides South to seven diamonds after North opens heart and double jumps from clubs to diamonds. East passes on a heart lead. the slam is made but yields a poor score. South weighs six diamonds redouble for 40-point gain versus seven diamonds.

Ely Culbertson East South North

Five Hearts Bid After Partner’s Five No Trump

In a bridge problem with West North East South bidding Pass Pass 1D Pass 2D Pass 3D Pass 4NT Pass 5D, South holds AAKS7T YK2 AK5 K832. The suggested line is to bid five hearts, as partner’s four no trump wasn’t true Blackwood but you should show your two aces. The key question is how to proceed when partner rebids five no trump after your five hearts.

West North East

Bezanson Re-elected Leader in Cedar Rapids Downtown Group

Peter F. Bezanson president of Mor American Financial Corp was re elected president of the Cedar Rapids Greater Downtown Assn for the coming year. New officers and board members include Blake Garske Eugene Pech Richard Scherling Van Vechten Shaffer Ralph Dresher and William Pohorsky. The executive committee features Robert C Armstrong Harold Becker J F Hladky Jr Abbott Lipsky Scott McIntyre Sutherland Cook Bezan son Dows Dresher Hastie O Meara Paulson Pech Scherling Shaffer and Smulekoff. The TV 9 Friday Night Movie opens the season with Doug McClure and Nancy Kwan in Nobody s Perfect at 1030. A Buddha theft tale follows the cave rescue plot.

Peter F. Bezanson Mor American Financial Corp Cedar Rapids Greater Downtown Assn Blake Garske Eugene Pech Richard Scherling van Vechten Shaffer Ralph Dresher William Pohorsky Ronald Barnes Sutherland Dows, Jr Hal Haines Ken Hastie Jerry Miller John Sayers Theodore Paulsen Robert O'Meara A. L. Smulekoff Harold Wendorf Garske Shaffer Scherling Robert C. Armstrong Harold Becker J. F. Hladky, Jr Abbott Lipsky Scott McIntyre Sutherland Cook Bezanson Dows Dresher Hastie O’meara Paulson Pech Smulekoff

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