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Newspaper
Columbus Telegram
Location
Columbus, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1977
Page
4
The article details a bridge hand with a super-safety play and Hamlet esoterica, citing a complex sequence where declarer overcomes odds to secure a slam. It notes a note on a knife made in Sheffield and a reader question about opening a club versus a heart bid, with expert reasoning on rebids.
The column presents astrological forecasts for each zodiac sign with cautionary advice and a request for readers to mail fifty cents for a full Astro-Graph letter. It warns of high costs for pursuing desires and urges self restraint, humility, and practical money management.
The text traces shorthand origins from ancient Greece using abbreviated notes for lectures and poems to Roman reporters recording orations with initial letters. It notes early Christian use and a 155D Egyptian contract to teach a boy shorthand.
UPI report recalls Sen John McClellan and the labor rackets inquiry he led twenty years ago. Dick West reflects on the memoed press coverage and his own career high point during the investigation era.
In San Diego Natha Depew testified she and Carol Hargis weighed methods to kill Mrs Hargis's Marine husband, including hallucinogens and tarantula poison, finally choosing beating him to death. The trial features Hargis and testimony from David Hargis about the insurance motive and the couple's plotted schemes.
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