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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
12
The horizontal and vertical clues present a themed crossword style with entries ranging from skating terms to animals plants and objects. Answers include familiar nouns like king fish eggs sane words and common phrases across geography language and time periods as readers piece together the puzzle.
Hollywood reports that six month contracts for Gone With the Wind include a paid layoff during production suspension. David Selznick uses the pause, while friction over director choices emerges among stars like Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Leslie Howard.
Susie, dating Dick Tremaine, enjoys a whirlwind life in Chicago and Hollywood style as she dazzles in gifts and parties. She faces emotional tension with Jeff Bowman and Edna Harker while awaiting a radio contract and a Christmas romance.
A Q and A column on table manners theater etiquette and social functions. It instructs on jelly on bread eating with a fork dipping and wearing hats in theaters with guidance to ask politely or seek help from an usher and notes suppers as both informal and exclusive social events.
Dr Morris Fishbein examines a death row convict offering his body for organ experiments including pancreas tissue. He notes low success of tissue transplants across species and the unlikelihood of achieving functional pancreas or sex gland transplants with present knowledge.
A reader asks about ivory care avoiding hot water and using warm soapy washes, monthly alcohol and whiting polish. Separately, a rug curling tip and a method to ease canned meat removal. The piece also notes Leon Schlesinger’s burlesque cartoon, Oz budget plans, a struggling actress, and director Michael Curtiz barking orders during a patriotic outdoor shoot.
A Columbus voyage tale notes the 1492 voyage to the new world, the crew's fear, Columbus's navigational tricks and deceptions to press onward, and the image of his fleet on the 1893 Columbian series 4 cent stamp.
The item surveys usage tips for English words, spelling quirks, and pronunciation notes. It offers examples of impute and im mute usage, a playful Macaulay quote, and a 1987 law changing the cherry can pit limit. It also cites cheetahs used for racing in England with a bold comparison to greyhounds.
A set of trivia answers lists a cat o nine tails as a whip with nine lashes a silversmith as Paul Revere s trade Narcissus as the mythological figure who loved himself hydrogen as the element in all acids and Quebec as the largest Canadian province by area 594 434 square miles The note adds that in Scotland workmen have painted the Firth of Forth bridge for over four decades and will start again once finished.
Horatio Greenough became the Capitol’s first American sculptor when Congress commissioned him in 1832 to carve a statue of Washington for display in the federal building.
A historical overview traces British trade expansion in India from early maritime routes around Africa to the 19th century empire. It notes the Mogul era gifts, 1877 Victoria Empress title, Delhi as capital in 1911, and landmarks like the Taj Mahal near Agra. Tomorrow’s feature previews India of the Present.
William E McKenney writes a bridge column as secretary of the American Contract Bridge League. The piece outlines game strategy and notes forthcoming events and organizational updates for readers.
South tried to mask poverty with a flashy opening, but the defense misfired as West doubled and then won the diamond queen. A spade sequence and heart misplays let East and West cash four hearts. North fell more than the value of the vulnerable game.
Readers face four dual definition questions including breeze beyond gale hue beyond color mort beyond hunting horn and how to char without burning. The page also asks a lent question about a Biblical preacher whose death coincides with a king’s birthday and notes a superstition about an Ainu woman not pronouncing her husband’s name to avoid harm.
South has four spades and must manage trumps to make the contract. The problem outlines a careful sequence to win, with the opening hand showing K J 9 7 6 in spades and the dummy including Q 9 7 6 in clubs and a mixed diamond/heart distribution. The key is to time the trumping so the defender cannot cash penalties before declarer can establish the suit.
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